wp_tag_cloud()
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_tag_cloud
why not use the tag cloud widget – or one of the ‘customizable’ tag cloud plugins?
By the way, how do you style these things? If I use a number of widgets they obviously just produce the tags randomly.
i don’t really get what you mean – can you give more details?
Thanks for the link!
What I meant was that if I just add the widget, it diplays the tags in a blue link and they are all centered. I assume that I need to add something to the stylesheet in order to change the appearance.
I added the widget so you can see what I mean. I want to display the tags in a bordered box to keep up the appearance of the site.
Thanks in advance.
right now, i can’t see the tag cloud widget in your site 🙁
generally, it won’t make much difference, whether you add the tag cloud as a widget or hardcode it into the sidebar – in both cases you will need to add a few styles to style.css to get the look right.
It’s at the bottom of the right sidebar. Right now its just a bunch of words. I’m starting to figure this out a little at a time. I assume that i code this in the stylesheet similar to my ugly newsletter box 🙁
you could use a style like this to add some formatting to the tags:
.widget-simpletags {
border: 1px solid green;
padding: 5px;
text-align:justify;
}
Very Cool! Thanks a lot, you saved me a week of guesswork. It looks great.
You mentioned hard coding it. Since I use different widget categories throughout if I hard code it at the bottom of the sidebar it would be there on every post page, correct? Right now, it only appears on half the pages.
Since I use different widget categories throughout if I hard code it at the bottom of the sidebar it would be there on every post page, correct?
probably right.
when you hardcode the tag cloud, you would need to add the same html tags as there are now, to keep the layout;
also, i am not sure how your ‘simple tag’ plugin would work for hardcoding.
Since I use different widget categories
can you not add the tag cloud widget to all of these?
Good call! The widget is available for as many categories as I want. Problem solved.
You have no idea how much people like me appreciate guys and girls like you helping us with our problems. This is one hell of a great forum.
Again, thanks a ton!
Ray
One last thing. Do you know how to change the title box on the Facebook Plugin? I would prefer “Most Popular on Facebook”
some plugin/widgets allow you to enter a custom title when you add them to the widget area (or later, when you go back to the widget).
no idea if the facebook widget does this as well.
then there is always the hacking of the plugin code … more fun 😉
