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1. bigmentaldisease
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   My tag cloud NEVER updates, it still has the same tags visible from the first few posts I made back in April. It seemed to update for a while but it hasn't changed for about 2 months now.

   http://bit.ly/Evz0M

   I'm using WP-Cumulus plugin but it's exactly the same result with the standard tags widget.

   It's very annoying.

   I have a second blog where the tags are working and update almost instantly.

   Does anyone have any idea as to what might be the problem?

   Thanks

2. Roy Tanck
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Could you try the regular tag cloud widget that comes with WP and see if it shows a different set of tags? My plugin simply uses the output from WordPress's wp_tag_cloud function, so there should be no difference, unless you're using the 'wp_tag_cloud parameters' option in the plugin to get or exclude specific tags.

   If you've used a lot of tags very frequently in the past, they'll rank higher than new ones you've only used once. I have that on my blog. The tags in my cloud hardly ever change either.

3. bigmentaldisease
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi roytanck,

   Thanks for your help.

   Regular tag cloud does indeed show the same tags.

   So let's say a tag has two topics associated with it, and there are also a number of other tags associated with two topics.

   Do the tags that were added to the cloud first just stay there until another tag overtakes them?

   I guess so, as this seems to be what is happening.

4. Roy Tanck
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   It's my understanding that the number of articles a tag is attached to determines its importance, and that the 45 most important ones are shown. I think it would be a nice feature to suggest to the WordPress developers to somehow include a tag's age into the algorithm, or when it's been used last. But currently, that's not the case as far as I'm aware of.

5. bigmentaldisease
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks

6. festinhabobanoape
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi guys, I have the same problem here with the WP-Cumulus cloud tag and tried to do as you said, but I am not sure if I did right because it didn't work.

   As I'm not sure how to edit html (or where to locate and write the 'order=RAND' ) I used WP-Cumulus widget options box that opens for me. The last line is written 'wp_tag_cloud parameters:' and has an empty box below it.

   So I wrote and saved on the empty box:

   order=RAND

   But nothing changed - What am I doing wrong?

   Could anybody help?

   Thanks

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