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.
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.
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.
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
