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1. FrakAdmin
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Ok, Im sure its out there but I have searched for the last seven days and either I have not found it or I found it and didnt know what I had.
   What im trying to locate or have help with is a word Cloud but specificly I want this set up.
   http://www.domain.com
   http://www.domain.com/forms
   http://www.domain.com/ventrilo
   http://www.domain.com/wordcloud

   In the Word Cloud page (www.domain.com/wordcloud) I just want to see a word cloud and thats it and have it filled with the information posted on my site main page (www.Domain.com) where I blog every day.

   Can someone point a blind man to the add in that will help with this?
   Thanks for all your help,
   Daniel

2. Ipstenu (Mika E.)
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   We have tag clouds (where the tags you use in a post can be collected) but I've not see a wordcloud. Can you link to an example of what you want it to look like?

3. FrakAdmin
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Well the closest I came to it is this add in http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-word-cloud/
   Which allows you to enclose a post and have its own custom cloud for that post.

   What im looking for is the ability to pull the most commenly used terms from my blog site so that my members can click on words of interest vs searching.

   IE: I commonly post about a awsume player named Vorthos, Im betting if I had a tag cloud for my site it would show his name in large text and then he would see it and click on it to see the posts I made about him directly.

   While thats just a example. Another funny example would be this, http://deanesmay.com/2010/03/24/congress-in-a-word-cloud/
   which seems to just pull in words from somewhere about a subject.

   I didnt post my site as some sensitive people find the name offensive but if you want to see my blogs to understand what im doing let me know and I will post the name.

4. Ipstenu (Mika E.)
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Ah... Those were made by http://www.wordle.net/

5. FrakAdmin
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
   Pushing aside the pretty picture creations which is awsume you found that for me cause its a neat site.

   Is it possible to generate a constatly updating word cloud? IE:
   http://www.domain.com/wordcloud's content is updated from posts on http://www.domain.com?

   If I was programming I would think I would point a read/extract into a array of some form to then import the data to the Cloud site. but i know websites are not exactly like programming so.. im lost.
   :)

6. Ipstenu (Mika E.)
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   No, that's what http://deanesmay.com/2010/03/24/congress-in-a-word-cloud/ is using. What I'm saying is that's actually what folks use :)

   All word clouds are 'toys' from one perspective or another anyhow.

   There's an API for Wordics, which is kind of the text version of wordle. http://wordics.lemmatica.com/

   You've wandered into your own territory, though, where you'll need to pull in the Wordics API or tweak that plugin you've found. I don't believe anyone's bothered to do it yet. :)

7. FrakAdmin
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Thats to bad, It would be a nice/impressive and or visual/artisitc method of showing and searching for site content.

   Hmm, the current plugin would work if I could figure out a method for it to just read the entire content of a site page and then filter out the non conversation content.

   Guess I will look into it, hopefully someone else on here has my interets as well and will help!
   Thanks,
   Daniel.

8. FrakAdmin
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   Oh and remember anyone who reads this. What is todays "Toys" may become tommorows genius idea and or method of using what already exists in a new way..

   :)

9. FrakAdmin
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   .. Ok, Ipstenu.. I thought you might find this amusing and feel free to close this post...
   My last post on my blog was.....

   So, Today to the dismay of my own ego. I discovered I was wrong. Dead Wrong. Here I was barking up the tree bugging every coder in the known world for a Cloud Search Engine that would filter content based on the words in a blog.

   And in my own Utopian world where the birds fly but don't poop on my head and everyone hugs and gives away free things that actually work and are worth keeping... I thought this was a good idea.

   And So the reality of this soon became clear as I studied my own blogs and thought process and decided the only 10 words any user would ever see in my cute little cloud bubble was:
   The, At, And, Frak, Here, AnyHoo, What, Why, Who... you get the idea...

   So to all who told me it was a stupid idea and the nice guy at word-press who didn't say I was a moron but was real REAL nice to me.. (Nice like he was talking to a mentally challenged person at the grocery line cause you don't have anything better do do at the time.....) Im Soooooorrrrrrryyyyyy!

   That aside. My "Search Ball of Awsume" is now there for all to stare at in amazement and shower me with gifts of broken things and crap I dont want..

   D!

10. Ipstenu (Mika E.)
    Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
    Posted 1 year ago #
    

    *lol* Don't feel bad, you should see how far down the rabbit hole we've gone with stuff before someone points stuff like that out ;)

    Hell, I didn't even think of that! I'd have a great big A in mine.

11. mradamrgreen
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #
    

    Its not a a stupid idea at all!!!

    Can't you easily exclude common words like that?? Google has an option for this in there "Advanced Word Cloud gadget" which you can run on spreadsheet data. You can import a common "Stop Word List" (words, like, "a" , "the", "that", "and", "because" etc), and then add your own custom ones too (like "Frak", "Anyhoo", etc).

    At the moment to create a word cloud I use this "gadget" of Google's - export all my website's post contents to a Google spreadsheet then using this gadget to create the word cloud (using the exclude function to get rid of those common words) to then put back on my site. Its far from ideal though because you have to update the spreadsheet manually, and also i have to put the new code into my site...

    You can see it here: http://www.dreamarchive.org/word-cloud

    The possibility of a word cloud WordPress plugin is also being discussed in this thread here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-cloud-problem-resolved?replies=2#post-2753134

    Please all you genius plugin makers out there, this would be so great to develop!!!

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