Title: Not enough tags
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Not enough tags

 *  Resolved [Peetra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peetra/)
 * (@peetra)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-enough-tags/)
 * I am lost in the Documentation (actually constantly had at least five tabs open
   with WP-tips the last month…), so I have to turn to you and ask for some personal
   tips.
 * I am using a child theme from the default theme and I noticed that I have run
   out of tags. I would need over 100 tags if I use the tag function as I was planning
   on. Or a method to choose which tags are shown in the widget area. It is convenient
   to have a link in the widget area to every level I written about.
 * Would some kind of html site map plugin be a better idea? The thing is that I
   need fast access to every post, not so much for my visitors, they seem to find
   everything using Google, but for me. Maybe abusing the tag function isn’t that
   smart just for personal comfort. 😛
 * Link to my site, if needed: [http://www.bubble-witch-saga.se/](http://www.bubble-witch-saga.se/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Peetra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peetra/)
 * (@peetra)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-enough-tags/#post-2475670)
 * I found something. 🙂 For now I added following to the default themes file sidebar.
   php
    but that seems like an emergency solution, I don’t think that is the right
   way to proceed. And I want it UP in the sidebar, not down.
 *     ```
       <!-- Peetra was here -->
       <aside id="archives" class="widget">
       <?php
       // taking control over the tags for increasing shown tags to 200
       if ( function_exists('wp_tag_cloud') ) :
       $tags = wp_tag_cloud('number=200');
                   foreach($tags AS $tag)
       	    {
                       echo $tag;
                   }
       ?>
       </aside>
       </div> <!-- This div was here, not Peetra's add -->
       <?php endif;?>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Peetra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peetra/)
 * (@peetra)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-enough-tags/#post-2475701)
 * okey, I am not so patient, so this will be fine for now, I am subscribing to 
   my topic though, so if you have an answer FOR THE CORRECT WAY TO WORK WITH THEMES
   within six months from now, it would probably help me **or** at least **someone
   else**. As it is for now, people might implement this way of modifying, because
   it works. And that is of course sad, but no one can at least say that I didn’t
   wrote that this is not the best way to handle it. 😉
 * The result I can live with is a sidebar.php like this:
 * _[[code moderated](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code) – please
   use the [pastebin](http://pastebin.com/)]_
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-enough-tags/#post-2475703)
 * you can influence the tag-cloud-widget with some code in functions.php of your
   theme;
 * example:
 *     ```
       add_filter('widget_tag_cloud_args','set_number_tags');
       function set_number_tags($args) {
       $args = array('number'    => 200, 'largest'    => 25);
       return $args;
       }
       ```
   
 * (the second argument is only there to show how to handle multiple args)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_tag_cloud](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_tag_cloud)
 *  Thread Starter [Peetra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peetra/)
 * (@peetra)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-enough-tags/#post-2475753)
 * That was EXACTLY what I was looking for, I actually found the codex page earlier,
   but just didn’t understand the proper usage. The documentation maybe assumed 
   that I knew stuff that I had no idea of earlier.
 * Thank you very much. I so much appreciate knowing, that I am now using wordpress
   the way it is intended to be used. 🙂

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Peetra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peetra/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-enough-tags/#post-2475753)
 * Status: resolved

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