Emily Barney
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For the site in question, I’m running 3.0.1.
I deleted Ultimate Tag Cloud after the problem and went with Random Tags Cloud instead.
Just now I went back and installed Ultimate Tag Cloud again, getting version 1.1 – I didn’t get the error code any more, but I also didn’t get the functionality I needed.
The feature I was most interested in with your plugin is the exclude feature – it works for me fine on the Random Tags Cloud widget (simple comma separation of a list of the tag ids I don’t want to appear) but it didn’t work on the Ultimate Tag Cloud – it allowed me to enter them and save it, but the tags I wanted to exclude kept appearing anyway, even though I tried adding or removing spaces.
One other feature I’d be VERY interested in finding, though none of the plugins I’ve seen so far can do it, is the ability to create a tag cloud that can be sorted by Tag slug or even ID rather than the name. I’m using tags to list faculty names at my school and would like to sort by last name but have the link appear with the full name.
If I could find a tag cloud that lets me exclude some tags (I don’t want faculty who have left to show in the cloud) and sort by tag slug, I’d be very happy!
There’s a plugin out there that handles this problem and a number of other issues with excerpts very nicely:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/excerpt-editor/
To show the “Read More” link after you’ve added the plugin and activated it, just go to Tools > Excerpt Editor > Auto-Generate and select the “Read More” button, then click on “Save Auto-Generate Options” – this will automatically add a “Read More” link after your excerpt or short posts.
It will also allow you to have formatted excerpts, and you can customize the “Read More” text to include the title of the article. SO much help. 🙂
There’s a plugin out there that handles this problem and a number of other issues with excerpts very nicely:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/excerpt-editor/
To customize the “Read More” after you’ve added the plugin and activated it, just go to Tools > Excerpt Editor > Auto-Generate and select the “Read More” button, then click on “Save Auto-Generate Options” – this will automatically allow you to have formatted excerpts.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Adding 'more' to the_excerpt in MystiqueI too have been wrestling with this for far too long, only to realize there’s a plugin out there that handles this problem and a number of other issues with excerpts very nicely:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/excerpt-editor/
To customize the “Read More” after you’ve added the plugin and activated it, just go to Tools > Excerpt Editor > Auto-Generate and select the “Read More” button, then click on “Save Auto-Generate Options” – this will automatically add a “Read More” link after your excerpt or short posts.
It will also allow you to have formatted excerpts, and you can customize the “Read More” text to include the title of the article. SO much help. 🙂
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: Rich Text Tags] Not working – fixed! Patch includedNote: this needs to be added tot he functions.php file, not the plugin js file. In case anyone else wasn’t sure, I figured I’d note that.
The site I wanted to customize with formatted tag descriptions is using the free Mystique theme. That theme includes an Advanced menu field for adding bits of code to the functions.php file without doing a manual edit, which made this very easy to do. It will also be easier to keep track of if I upgrade WordPress – otherwise I might accidentally overwrite the functions.php file and remove this customization.
Of course you also need to have the descriptions enabled in your archives.php page already as well, which in my case was added as this line:
<br /> <?php elseif(is_tag()): ?><br /> <div id="tagDescription"><br /> <h2 class="title archive-tag"><?php printf( __('Posts tagged %s', 'mystique'), '<span class="altText">'.single_cat_title('', false).'</span>'); ?></h2><br /> <p><?php echo category_description($category); ?></p><br /> </div><br />I’ve added the wrapping div to allow specially styled description that’s added to my style.css – that way my header and paragraph look the way I want without affecting the rest of the site.