Tag cloud output

Okay, I think what I need to do is add a template to my code that will create the output for me.

Should I follow the instructions here?
http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/advanced-use-of-attachments-in-wordpress-creating-categorised-gallery-pages–cms-21007

I am using the Sparkling theme by colorlib, it has an image.php part that says it’s for dealing with attachments. Could I just put some code in there?

Phew, I finally found the relevant code!

David, this is an amazing plugin and I’m going to make a donation, but I humbly request that you make a Dummies Guide, or at least put the following pieces of code right up front in the FAQ or something.

<h3>The Cloud</h3>
Click on a term to populate the gallery below.

[mla_tag_cloud taxonomy=attachment_category number=0 mla_link_href="{+page_url+}?term_slug={+slug+}"]

<h3>The Gallery</h3>

[mla_gallery attachment_category="{+template:({+request:term_slug+}|a-bad-term)+}" mla_nolink_text="Nothing to show."]

And the search form, which I edited a bit, but you can put a standard one somewhere.

<form id="mla-search-form" action="." method="post"><input id="mla-search-box" name="search-string" type="text" value="" />
<input id="submit" name="submit" type="submit" value="GO" /></form>

[mla_gallery post_mime_type=all post_parent=all s="{+template:({+request:search-string+}|a-bad-term)+}" mla_nolink_text="No pages to show." posts_per_page=12 mla_output="paginate_links,prev_next" mla_link_href="{+page_url+}?search-string={+request:search-string+}"]

[mla_gallery post_mime_type=all post_parent=all s="{+template:({+request:search-string+}|a-bad-term)+}" mla_nolink_text="Enter a search value above to display gallery." posts_per_page=12]

You’ll save both your users and yourself a TON of time if these two pieces are somewhere everybody can see them.

I put both these onto my site and they did what I was looking for. I can’t put the tag cloud in my sidebar but that’s not a huge deal.

Then I installed Responsive Lightbox and it worked perfectly with the above code, such that I literally didn’t have to do anything to have cool lightbox effects for the gallery output! So sweet.

So basically I have one final question:

How do I change the color of my tags in my tag cloud? I think it involves style markups but if you could show me an example that’d be great.

Cheers!

Hi David,

thanks again for your help. You have indeed resolved my issue and I have made a small donation to Fair Trade Judaica in appreciation of your time.

The colors example would be another good example for your “Dummies Guide” 🙂 Thanks!

I abandoned the sidebar widget because the output appeared inside the widget instead of on another page, and it was too much hassle to figure out how to code it so the output would be on its own gallery page. I just made a gallery page with “Cloud/Search/Gallery” functions that looks pretty solid to me.

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I think that type of functionality would be useful for other objects too. I’m trying to do the same thing for links leading offsite, whereby I tag the links and then create the same kind of “Cloud/Search/Output List”. If you have a second I’d love to hear your thoughts.

The “Link Library” editor allowed me to attach link_category(ies) to my links, but figuring out how to get the output right is the tricky part again.

Since you have working code it might be worth considering whether the same functions could be applied to links or anything else. That combination of visual cues from a cloud plus a search form is pretty user-friendly.

Thanks again for your help, it is very much appreciated.