Better Tag Cloud

A better tag cloud. Lots of configuration options, a widget and a shortcode to add tag clouds to posts and pages.

Author:Nicolas Kuttler (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:2.7
WordPress version tested:3.0.5
Plugin version:0.99.5
Added to WordPress repository:04-11-2008
Last updated:10-12-2010
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Plugin URI:http://www.nkuttler.de/wordpress/nktagcloud/
Total downloads:128 654
Active installs:2 000+
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I was pretty annoyed with the default tag cloud widget. It does a lot of things wrong, like inconsistent HTML markup and hardcoded font sizes. So I wanted to write my own. Digging through the code I found out that the wordpress wp_tag_cloud() function is pretty powerful. In fact, it could do almost everyhing I want. So I abandoned my plan to rewrite everything from scratch and added a nice admin interface to my tag cloud widget.

This plugin makes the options for wp_tag_cloud() available to multiple tag cloud widgets and shortcodes. This means that you can easily choose things like custom taxonomies, font sizes, HTML markup and ordering. See the wp_tag_cloud() page for what the normal settings can do.

Additionally, it is possible to sort tags by count and alphabetically at the same time. It is also possible to add a counter to the tags, so that your visitors can see how many posts are associated with each tag. The plugin also adds a sensible CSS class to every tag.

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