Title: Tag Cloud CSS
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Tag Cloud CSS

 *  [herbalmd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/herbalmd/)
 * (@herbalmd)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-cloud-css/)
 * Everyone on this site has been great helping an old man like me to get started.
   I’d like to put a tag cloud in my right sidebar at the bottom but would prefer
   that I don’t use a widget. Any ideas?
 * By the way, how do you style these things? If I use a number of widgets they 
   obviously just produce the tags randomly. http:/www.herbalmd.com.
 * Any help would be much appreciated.

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-cloud-css/#post-1962166)
 * wp_tag_cloud()
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/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?
 *  Thread Starter [herbalmd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/herbalmd/)
 * (@herbalmd)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-cloud-css/#post-1962270)
 * 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.
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-cloud-css/#post-1962279)
 * 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.
 *  Thread Starter [herbalmd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/herbalmd/)
 * (@herbalmd)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-cloud-css/#post-1962281)
 * 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 🙁
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-cloud-css/#post-1962284)
 * 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;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [herbalmd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/herbalmd/)
 * (@herbalmd)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-cloud-css/#post-1962286)
 * 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.
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-cloud-css/#post-1962287)
 * > 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?
 *  Thread Starter [herbalmd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/herbalmd/)
 * (@herbalmd)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-cloud-css/#post-1962293)
 * 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
 *  Thread Starter [herbalmd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/herbalmd/)
 * (@herbalmd)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-cloud-css/#post-1962299)
 * One last thing. Do you know how to change the title box on the Facebook Plugin?
   I would prefer “Most Popular on Facebook”
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-cloud-css/#post-1962300)
 * 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 😉

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