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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
    June 14th, 2007 on 10:11 am

    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
    June 24th, 2007 on 8:14 pm

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

  • Ann
    June 24th, 2007 on 8:16 pm

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

  • Jay
    July 7th, 2007 on 4:21 pm

    Great plugin!

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

    Thanks!

  • broom9
    July 7th, 2007 on 4:27 pm

    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
    July 9th, 2007 on 2:42 am

    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
    July 9th, 2007 on 8:16 am

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

  • Brezeck
    July 21st, 2007 on 2:54 am

    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
    July 21st, 2007 on 7:50 am

    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
    July 21st, 2007 on 2:01 pm

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

    Thanks!

    Moises

  • broom9
    July 21st, 2007 on 8:26 pm

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

  • Moises
    July 22nd, 2007 on 12:52 pm

    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
    July 22nd, 2007 on 12:53 pm

    Errr. I meant:

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

  • broom9
    July 22nd, 2007 on 12:57 pm

    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
    July 22nd, 2007 on 1:01 pm

    Thanks! I’ll give it a shot.

    ======

  • Hassan Amin
    August 13th, 2007 on 1:50 pm

    Dear sir

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

  • 青方
    August 18th, 2007 on 7:01 am

    很好用的插件，安在我的博客上了，谢谢！

  • Sam
    September 27th, 2007 on 4:38 am

    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
    September 27th, 2007 on 9:07 am

    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
    September 27th, 2007 on 10:40 am

    i totally missed that! thanks so much.

  • turbo
    September 30th, 2007 on 1:11 am

    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
    September 30th, 2007 on 10:27 am

    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
    October 2nd, 2007 on 2:19 am

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

  • Rodion
    November 16th, 2007 on 9:17 pm

    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
    November 16th, 2007 on 10:42 pm

    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
    November 17th, 2007 on 12:22 am

    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
    November 17th, 2007 on 12:58 am

    to Rodion: ok, that’s cool :)

  • Idetrorce
    December 16th, 2007 on 12:03 am

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

  • Lazer Epilasyon
    February 28th, 2008 on 6:42 am

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

  • Datenplatz
    June 20th, 2008 on 5:15 am

    Thank you very much for this great plugin !

    http://www.datenplatz.de

  • Kevin
    February 23rd, 2010 on 1:18 pm

    cool plugin :D ! Thanks

  • Meir
    February 24th, 2010 on 8:10 am

    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
    February 24th, 2010 on 10:19 pm

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

  • Mr. Juegos
    March 17th, 2010 on 9:59 pm

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

  • broom9
    March 17th, 2010 on 10:50 pm

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

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