Sunday, March 4th, 2007...7:20 am
tag cloud is in effect, and comment form is up
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Finally had a chance to work on my tag cloud today. I am using Category Tagging with WordPress plugin by Michael Woehrer, with a few tweaks. You’ll now see a tag cloud in the bottom of all my pages. The tags in the cloud are derived from the terms I use to categorize my posts. Frequency of the tag correlates with font size. Click on a term to see the posts categorized under that term.
Also added a contact form. Used WP Contact Form at One Woman Show, by Kristin K. Wangen, who added a subject line. Found Kristin via plugin creator Ryan Duff, then Douglas Karr who added spam protection.
12 Comments
March 4th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Nice, I know you’ve been wanting this since you started the new hosted blog.
March 4th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Thanks Phil! Getting the hang of things now, many thanks to you and Scott. One remark about free blogs…. I think after all is said and done I now would recommend Blogger for FREE WEB hosted blogs, due to all the new tagging fun and access to template. I simply did not have this kind of customizability at my old Wordpress.com blog.
March 4th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Have you seen blogger’s new AJAX interface? Karen uses blogger, and she says it’s much nicer. I don’t know if you noticed, but she just added a tagcloud, too.
March 4th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Yes, that’s all what I was referring to. :p
I still have my old Blogger acct and have followed the changes. I am happy with this site, but I think Blogger is a good choice for anyone who likes to tweak.
March 4th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
I like the tag cloud. I think it would be interesting to have a total word-use cloud, too.
March 4th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Go for it Thomas!
Then post the code. Hee!
March 4th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Thanks for the mention. As well - nice job on the tag cloud. It’s a creative and useful solution putting it at the base of the page like that. I’ve not see this before but it really works!
Regards,
Doug
March 4th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Hey Doug! Thanks for stopping over and thanks so much for the plugin mods! You have a very welcoming tone and you make it easy.
March 5th, 2007 at 9:12 am
nice tag cloud jennimi! i like the font. i am curious about the total word use cloud. what is it? i may look into this later when i have a boring moment.
March 5th, 2007 at 9:23 am
PK, thanks for the compliment! The font is set in the stylesheet. I think what Thomas means by the total word use TG is that the words in the cloud would represent the top words used on a person’s site, rather than categories they selected? Am I making sense?
And T may correct me but I am not sure this exists for blog plug-ins anyway…. which is why I told him to write it. Hee. I bet Philip or Scott could, but would they consider it useful? And would they include all words or exclude things like “the”, “and”, “I”? And where would that process stop?
I guess since this is my space, I like the idea of picking my own categories to generate a cloud (primarily so I can go back and search with fewer keys and clicks), but heck, if there are uses for this kind, go for it!
March 5th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
i think it would be more “fun” to see. i would put it at the bottom if such a thing existed and keep my tag cloud at the side. you wouldn’t have that option w/o messing up your main tag cloud. hmm. if only such a thing existed we could try it out. some day.
March 12th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Hi
Good news !
You can now create TAGS CLOUD without any programming knowledge.
Just use the FREE online tool for TAG CLOUD at:
www.astal.com/totf/tags/tagscloud1.html
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