jaykaybee

@griffinacademy my email is jkbweb at gmail.com. Thanks! Regardless of Link Library, I am also trying to learn more about controlling excerpts, e.g. for bbpress excerpts.

Thanks for your response. So far I have not found a tag cloud generator that supports custom post types. Can you list a few by name? I’ve tried “Tag Cloud” and “Ultimate Tag Cloud” and “Cool Tag CLoud.”

What is the name of the built-in tag generation function? Where do I access it to use it in a sidebar etc? When you say, “By default, the links don’t go anywhere though, but I could make them links to the categories” I don’t quite understand. I do not want to rely on categories only for tags, I really want to use tags in the tag cloud.

So to answer your questions:
1. What function would you like for the tag cloud?
– Would like to be able to configure the tag cloud to display tags from the link library, while excluding other tags
– Would like to add this tag cloud to a sidebar that I would make using “Content Aware Sidbars” (plugin) so I could tell it to display on one or more pages that show Link Library display
– I actually don’t really care about the “cloud” nature of the tag cloud. In other words, I don’t need frequency counts, or graphics. I just want a list of tags, so people can filter the links, not just by category, but by tag.
– In essence, the benefit of a tag is that you can have an entry in one category that has multiple tags, even if it doesn’t belong to multiple categories. With a tag cloud, the user can filter to all the links that share a tag.
– As an example, I am designing a list of resources for consumer health and finance. These are broad topics. I might just have two categories: health, and finance. But for each link that I list, I may want to use several tags from among dozens of possible tags, e.g. (using # to denote tag), #app, #book, #website, #article. Then someone could filter the links for all the books listed.

2. Would you want the link categories to be links to jump to these sections of the link page?
– Not sure I understand this question, I would want the tag cloud to provide links that “filter” the link libraries so only the links with the selected tag would be shown. I don’t really need categories in the tag cloud. Just tags. (Although perhaps others would want categories in there?)

3. Would you want to display this tag cloud on pages other than your library of links?
– Probably not
– However, I plan to have multiple pages displaying library of links in different display configurations. So would want to use the tag cloud, optionally, on multiple pages.

Thanks again for this great plugin!

PS Ultimate Tag Cloud widget plugin seemed like it should work, and would accomplish most or all of the above, but for some reason it does not “see” the Link Library tags.

PS I found another topic which asked this question, but unfortunately I am too much of a WordPress newbie to understand your answer: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-get-link-library-tag-cloud/#post-11375056. I’ve posted there asking for elaboration on that topic, or perhaps you can explain fresh here, at a remedial level if possible. Thanks!

PPS I also tried using the read more tag in the longer description field. That failed. But it gave me the idea of looking for a better read more plugin. I installed “Read More by Edmon” plugin, and it seems to be working for me. I’m still curious, before you close this item, if you could comment on other possible approaches (and why doesn’t the readmore tag built in to wordpress work here?) Thanks!

PS I found another support item with a possible clue about how to do this.

See https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-tags-inline-with-the-link/

The plugin creator responded: “Sure. If you go to the Advanced tab in Library Configurations, then find Link Tags in the table of elements, just add: <span class=”link_tag”> in the before column for Link Tags, and </span> in the After column.

The CSS rule you wrote should then style your tags.”

Unfortunately I don’t know CSS. But it suggests that the Advanced tab might let me hire a developer to add some markup code in the Table of Elements, and then write some CSS.

Is this the right way to go about it?

Any ideas if CSS can expand/collapse a description or note element if properly used like this?

Or any other approaches?

Thanks!

PS NicEdit looks very promising. I don’t understand the issue of div tags, but other than that, looks great! I wonder if they would be responsive to your feedback on div tags, maybe that can be made optional? I am happy to write them in support of your request if you go that direction.

Yes I see your point about notifications being complex. I will figure out a way to work around this, for example, I can make people sign up for access to the directory via my WordPress membership plugin, and then I can manually email those people when there is a significant change.

Thanks Jeroen, I need to go back and look at publish/unpublish, I did not register that distinction. Look forward to see what you come up with on this!