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Tag Cloud Widget for UTW

Deprecated, please use the latest WordPress release instead

Link on WordPress.org

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tag-cloud-widget-for-utw/

Introduction

This is a sidebar widget for WordPress, which adds a tag cloud in sidebar.
It must be used together with the so popular plugin sidebar widget and the wonderful tag plugin Ultimate Tag Warrior.

I am using it on my blog, which is built on WordPress 2.1.3 and UTW 3.14159265.
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Installation

  1. Download here — Tag Cloud Widget for UTW
  2. Upload the “tagcloud.php” to the path “/wp-content/plugins/widgets/”
  3. Active this widget in Plugins control panel
  4. In the presentation->sidebar control panel, drag the tag cloud widget to your sidebar

Notes

  • The style of tag cloud is designed by UTW, the reference page is here
  • Thanks for the widget “google search widget“. I don’t know php at all…just made this plugin based on it.

Change Log

See page on WordPress.org

36 Comments for this entry

  • John

    Thanks for the plugin. I just installed it and it works perfectly – first I tried just entering the php to call the UTW cloud into a text widget, but that didn’t get me anywhere.

  • Ann

    What if them you’re using doesn’t have the sidebar widget? what code do I put in the side bar?

  • Ann

    oops that’s suppose to be… What if the theme you’re using…

  • Jay

    Great plugin!

    Can I ask, how do I modify the sizing/scale? The one this site looks neat!

    Thanks!

  • broom9

    To Jay: Change it in UTW’s option page. In the admin page, Option->Tags->Global Formatting Settings, set “Most popular color” and “Least popular color”, then in the widget config set the tag cloud style (on this site, to “coloredtagcloud” )

  • gilles

    hi, i’m french, scuse me for my bad english, after instalation your pluging, i look this error :
    Fatal error: Call to undefined function: utw_showweightedtagset() in /homepages/46/d164474243/htdocs/blog/wp-content/plugins/tagcloud.php on line 37

    what to make?
    Thank’s

  • broom9

    Hi, gilles: Probably you didn’t install or activate the plugin Ultimate Tag Warrior. This widget must work with it.

  • Brezeck

    很好的插件~~我一天都在找将Tag Cloud放在Widget上的方法没有找到,最后在你的Blog上就找到了。
    Great Plugin! I spent the whole day looking for a way to put tag cloud on the widget but failed, at last i found this on your blog!

  • Michael

    Hi there,

    Thanks so much for this plugin, it work great on my site.
    十分感激你這個插件, 我對PHP可謂一竅不通,試過不少方法將Tag cloud放在sidebar, 現在只用了五分鐘便大功告成!

  • Moises

    Love the plugin! Am I able to control the amount of results that are displayed?

    Thanks!

    Moises

  • broom9

    To Moises: Thanks. You can config the amount. Use the “number limit” option in the config dialog of this widget.

  • Moises

    Perfect Works great. One more quick question.

    Is it possible to display the crowd within the primary content as well as within the widget panel?

    Thanks Again!!

  • Moises

    Errr. I meant:

    Is it possible to display the CLOUD within the primary content as well as within the widget panel?

  • broom9

    To Moises: It’s possible but I’m afraid you need to modify the theme file by yourself, call some functions from UTW. If you just want to display tag names of a single post below the post body, like what’s working here, you can config that in UTW option page.

  • Moises

    Thanks! I’ll give it a shot.

    ======

  • Hassan Amin

    Dear sir

    I need a tag cloud Code to add in index page …plz give me some help
    thanks

  • 青方

    很好用的插件,安在我的博客上了,谢谢!

  • Sam

    i’ve searched high and low for this widget and finally found it! thanks!

    i know you can limit the amount of tags listed by editing tagcloud.php number limit option. but i’m not quite sure how to do that. can you post an example of what the edited version would look like?

    thanks, so much

  • broom9

    Hi, Sam,

    Are you asking how to find the number limit option? First make sure your WordPress supports sidebar widgets. Go to the admin page, Presentation -> Sidebar Widgets, drag the “Tag Cloud” widget into your sidebar, and click the config button on the “Tag Cloud” widget, you’ll see the option of number limit.

    I’m sorry I don’t have another demo blog to show you the actual effect of this limit. On this blog I’ve limited the number of displayed tags to 20.

  • Sam

    i totally missed that! thanks so much.

  • turbo

    I was so pleased with my tag cloud (Tag cloud for UTW), but I was stupid enough to upgrade wordpress to 2.3, and after that it didn’t work.

    Is there any chance to get it back with my wp2.3 ?

  • broom9

    I don’t know too much about WP 2.3, but I heard that it has tag support built-in. Maybe you don’t need this plugin anymore with WP 2.3.

  • atppp

    wp2.3 includes an importer to import tags from UTW, but the native tag cloud template isn’t as nice as this one..

  • Rodion

    I can’t use it with my theme, which doesn’t have widgets in it (only static sidebar.php). How can I make the cloud to appear in some place of my sidebar?

  • broom9

    To Rodion: if you are using WordPress version 2.2 or below, install the plugin “sidebar widget”; I’m not sure what to do on WP 2.3 or higher

  • Rodion

    to brrom9: I use the last version of WP but my theme doesn’t support widgets. And actually I don’t want to use dynamic sidebar because I have different elements on my sidebar arranged different ways (2 columns mixed with 1 column, etc.). Anyway, thank you for the assistance.
    I have just edited the plugin the way I want it to work and I call the function of the plugin directly from the place I wish it to appear in. :)

  • broom9

    to Rodion: ok, that’s cool :)

  • Idetrorce

    very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
    Idetrorce

  • Lazer Epilasyon

    The plugin is very useful. Already I can’t think a life without tag cloud :)

  • Datenplatz

    Thank you very much for this great plugin !

    http://www.datenplatz.de

  • Kevin

    cool plugin :D ! Thanks

  • Meir

    Hi’
    why do i have this erorr

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function utw_showweightedtagsetalphabetical() in /home/zefatnet/public_html/noa/wp-content/plugins/tag-cloud-widget-for-utw/tagcloud.php on line 39

  • broom9

    @Meir this plugin is deprecated, please use higher version WP

  • Mr. Juegos

    This means the plugin will work with WordPress 2.9.2 ? latest version?

  • broom9

    @Juegos Not sure, this plugin isn’t maintained anymore since most ppl are using built-in tags instead of UTW.

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