{"id":3727,"date":"2015-10-06T14:56:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2015-10-06T14:56:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:56:33","slug":"how-to-get-an-awesome-tag-cloud-for-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2015\/10\/06\/how-to-get-an-awesome-tag-cloud-for-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get an awesome tag-cloud for WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s only a few tag-cloud plugins that still work – most of them have stopped being supported.<\/p>\n

The best one I found has super-awesome-multi-colour mode<\/a>. But by default it’s disabled, and the config-options don’t include a way to turn it on. You have to dig in the developer documentation to find out how.<\/p>\n


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ALSO … by default, it uses your theme’s CSS styles for the cloud. That is a really bad idea – it disables most of the tag-cloud features (including the “cloud” part!). Again, unfixable unless you dig in the dev docs to find the secret command.<\/p>\n

For future reference (because I’m pretty sure I’ll be using this on other sites soon), here’s a working PHP snippet you can embed in your Template source (I hate<\/strong> that WordPress still has this stupid bug where you can only modify pages by writing new PHP files – so stupid and unnecessary!) in your Theme folder:<\/p>\n

\n$args = array( “title” => “”, “color” => “random”, “text_transform” => “capitalize”, “link_italic” => “yes”, “hover_underline” => “yes”, “alignment” => “center”, “link_bg_color” => “#DDDDDD”, “separator” => ” – “, “show_title_text” => 0, “avoid_theme_styling” => “true”, “max” => 50 );<\/p>\n

do_utcw( $args );\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s only a few tag-cloud plugins that still work – most of them have stopped being supported. The best one I found has super-awesome-multi-colour mode. But by default it’s disabled, and the config-options don’t include a way to turn it on. You have to dig in the developer documentation to find out how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,66,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3728,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions\/3728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}