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After a few days of hacking, I'm proud to present version 2.0 of my configurable tag cloud widget for Wordpress 2.3. The big news in this release is you can now specify colors to form a gradient for your tag links.

Screenshot from my testing blog showing a gradient from #c0c0c0 to #000000:

The other big change is I have gone from using the Wordpress-native tag cloud generation code to using functions internal to the widget.

I've been testing the new version of Wordpress since the first beta (that's part of the reason the new site design hasn't gone live yet). It's pretty sweet, but in testing, I found the tag cloud widget that comes with WP 2.3 lacking in configuration options (as in, there are none). So I set about to fix that.

Akismet has caught 5,072 spam comments since I first installed it.

And in that entire time, I've only had to moderate 5 messages (which all turned out to be spam... :) )

So yeah, I'm pretty pleased.