Title: Tag cloud purpose?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Tag cloud purpose?

 *  [paul_mcnelis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paul_mcnelis/)
 * (@paul_mcnelis)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-cloud-purpose/)
 * Let me see if I understand what a WP tag cloud is..
 * I write a post and can assign certain keywords (tags) to it, and these words 
   show up in a tag cloud on my sidebar. When someone visits my site, they click
   on these tags and all posts with these tags will be displayed?
 * Do the tags grow/shrink in font size based on how many times someone has clicked
   them, or based on how many posts use the tag(s)?
 * do tags help bring people to the website, or not really since the post does that?
 * just trying to see if i want to implement a tag cloud or not.

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 *  [flipjargendy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flipjargendy/)
 * (@flipjargendy)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-cloud-purpose/#post-726503)
 * > Do the tags grow/shrink in font size based on how many times someone has clicked
   > them, or based on how many posts use the tag(s)?
 * Yes, they grow when you have more posts with a certain tag.
 * > do tags help bring people to the website, or not really since the post does
   > that?
 * They might help a little but I think it’s more of asthetic then functional.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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