Title: Tag cloud never updates.
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Tag cloud never updates.

 *  Resolved [bigmentaldisease](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigmentaldisease/)
 * (@bigmentaldisease)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-cloud-never-updates/)
 * Hi,
 * My tag cloud NEVER updates, it still has the same tags visible from the first
   few posts I made back in April. It seemed to update for a while but it hasn’t
   changed for about 2 months now.
 * [http://bit.ly/Evz0M](http://bit.ly/Evz0M)
 * I’m using WP-Cumulus plugin but it’s exactly the same result with the standard
   tags widget.
 * It’s very annoying.
 * I have a second blog where the tags are working and update almost instantly.
 * Does anyone have any idea as to what might be the problem?
 * Thanks

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 *  [Roy Tanck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roytanck/)
 * (@roytanck)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-cloud-never-updates/#post-1128491)
 * 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.
 *  Thread Starter [bigmentaldisease](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigmentaldisease/)
 * (@bigmentaldisease)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-cloud-never-updates/#post-1128503)
 * 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.
 *  [Roy Tanck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roytanck/)
 * (@roytanck)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-cloud-never-updates/#post-1128514)
 * 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.
 *  Thread Starter [bigmentaldisease](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigmentaldisease/)
 * (@bigmentaldisease)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-cloud-never-updates/#post-1128535)
 * Thanks
 *  [festinhabobanoape](https://wordpress.org/support/users/festinhabobanoape/)
 * (@festinhabobanoape)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-cloud-never-updates/#post-1128705)
 * 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

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## Tags

 * [tags](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tags/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [festinhabobanoape](https://wordpress.org/support/users/festinhabobanoape/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-cloud-never-updates/#post-1128705)
 * Status: resolved

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