WordPress Configurable Tag Cloud Plugin

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1. The plugin does not have a valid header.

   What's wong?

2. I'm not sure what I've missed and am hoping you can direct me. The tag cloud shows up just fine, but the links don't work and give a "Not Found" message. Any suggestions?
   Thanks.

3. Thank you, is the great plugins, but i need know how i cant insert a link for more tags, after i declared the total number of tags appear in the cloud. Is possible?

4. is there a showtags() just like we have showcats?

5. Where do I find CTC for WP 2.7.1? Please send me the download link.
   thx

   1. The current version will work on WP 2.7.1. When I started convertingto the new Widgets API, I thought it was going to be an either/orproposition, but I figured out how to keep it compatible with bothversions.

      1. OK… I tried again.
         1. Error when I choose it
         This plugin is marked as not compatible with your actual wordpress version
         2. Error after inline installation

         Warning: require(/vrmd/homepages/u33020/cc/wp-content/plugins/tag_cloud/base.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /vrmd/homepages/u33020/cc/wp-content/plugins/configurable-tag-cloud-widget/tag_cloud/tag_cloud.php on line 16

         Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/vrmd/homepages/u33020/cc/wp-content/plugins/tag_cloud/base.php' (include_path='.:/vrmd/webserver/php-5.2.8/lib/php') in /vrmd/homepages/u33020/cc/wp-content/plugins/configurable-tag-cloud-widget/tag_cloud/tag_cloud.php on line 16

         what do I do wrong?

6. Let me also add to my last post that I believe the number of tags in the cloud are somehow related to the length of the page. On a long page it lists all of my tags, on a shorter one is lists less of them, and on an even shorter one it lists even less. All files call the same sidebar.php file so I don't know where they are getting different tag limits.

   If you need to see what I mean, the website is…
   http://avsonline.tv

   The front page does not show the tag cloud (by design) but the other pages (Portfolio, About Us, Press, etc) do show them with each of the pages listed showing less and less tags all the while being limited to 20 in the options.

7. Hi, I have been using this plugin for a while, and recently upgraded to 5.1. I got stuck in the automatic upgrade problem and then fixed it as instructed. The options didn't seem to be working so I deleted the plugin and then manually uploaded and activated it.

   I can see the cloud on my page, but none of the options seem to be working. For example, it is showing all of my tags even though I have it limited to 20. I have also tried calling in from php in my theme as ctc('number=20') which also does not seem to have any effect. Any Ideas?

8. Hi all,

   I created a nice little PHP snippet that highlights the chosen tag on an archive-page (without hacking the plugin):

   <code>

   <?php
   $tags = ctc('format=array&smallest=12&largest=36&unit=px&mincolor=#000000&maxcolor=#000000&showcount=no');

   foreach ($tags as $tag) {
   if(is_tag()){
   $pattern = "/".single_tag_title('', false)."/"; // zoekt naar de tag van deze pagina
   if(preg_match($pattern, $tag, $match)){
   $pattern="/color:+.+;/";
   $replacement = "color: #ff0000;";
   $new_tag = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $tag);
   $tag = $new_tag;

   }
   }
   echo $tag."
   " ;
   }
   ?>
   </code>

   You can use this snippet in your template inside and outside the loop.

   Have fun with it!

9. Hi,

   Really like the plugin, but would be great (for me) if there were a couple of other functions:
   1. the ability to output the php function and NOT have the cloud formatting. I just want the tag links without the cloud formating (still be able to output as flat or list).
   2. more output functions, such as most popular tags by date (most popular tags in the last 30 days, for example).
   3. output specific tags using the tag ID number …. that way I can choose a list of 10 tags, for example.

   Thanks again!

10. Nice update. I had some troule with the autoatic installer but with the comments here that was easy to fix.

    One other small issue:
    I would like the widget to show no title when I don't fill in one. Now it shows the default title ("Tags"). Sometimes I just don't need or want a title above my widget.

11. Nice update. I had some troule with the autoatic installer but with the comments here that was easy to fix.

    One other small issue:
    I would like the widget to show no title when I don't fill in one. Now it shows the default title ("Tags"). Sometimes I just don't need or want a title above my widget.

12. There is an issue when you use the automatic update feature. It creates an erroneous folder that contains the actual plugin folder. For the time being, please refrain from using the automatic upgrade. If you have already upgraded via the automatic method and the plugin disappeared from your plugins list, just ftp to your WP install, go into the plugin directory, and move the 'tag_cloud' directory from the 'configurable-tag-cloud-widget' directory to the main plugins directory. After you do this, you can activate the plugin as normal.

    Sorry for the issues…I'm trying to find a fix, and will post agian when I figure it out.

    1. Seems to be another issue as well when using the plugin manually (without widget). < ? php ctc(); ? > No longer works. Is it just me?

       1. Strange…I'm not seeing this issue on any of the blogs I have theplugin installed on…does it give an error, or just not displayanything?

          1. Doesn't display anything.

13. Hello.

    I used the automatically upgrade but the plugin disappeared. Can anybody help me?

14. Voila.
    I don't know why standart tag cloud widget does not work with Thesis 1.5 theme. So i installed CTC on my webpage. For thesis users you can check out this bug-fix – Agriculture Guide
    Instead of using ( actually can't ) standart tag cloud, you can see how CTC charmed my thesis theme.
    Warmly.

15. Voila.
    I don't know why standart tag cloud widget does not work with Thesis 1.5 theme. So i installed CTC on my webpage. For thesis users you can check out this bug-fix – Agriculture Guide
    Instead of using ( actually can't ) standart tag cloud, you can see how CTC charmed my thesis theme.
    Warmly. -at the end of the page – i manually inserted the code.

16. Great.

    Two suggestion.

    1. Widget title should be __('Tags') instead of simply 'Tags'
    2. I'm using Language Switcher, so i've replaced "$tag = str_replace(' ', '&nbsp;', wp_specialchars( $tag ));" with "$tag = apply_filters('the_title', str_replace(' ', '&nbsp;', wp_specialchars( $tag )));". Probably, this could be done in more elegant way, i dont know.

    Thank you!-)

17. This issue should be fixed…there was a problem with the plugin I useto manage downloads, but it has been addressed.  Sorry for the trouble.

18. This issue should be fixed…there was a problem with the plugin I useto manage downloads, but it has been addressed.  Sorry for the trouble.

    1. I think it can be done by

       "showcount=yes' option.
       If we can find a way to if loop, if showcount > 1 , then continue.
       Im not professional, but someone who know a bit php can solve this.
       At least i said my opinion.

    2. There is in the new version of the plugin, which was released yesterday. You can limit the cloud with both a minimum number and a maximum number of posts per tag.

19. Hey Hi, im interested in your plugin, but the download link is broken,
    is there any other place i could donwload it?

    Thanks in advance
    have a nice day

20. Is there an option to require a minimum number of posts in a tag for it to show up? For example, I want to show 999 tags (all of them) but only if they have 2 or more posts in them. That would be great. Thanks!

21. Great plugin, but…
    it has a big drawback: a:hover color in the stylesheet for ctc div class does NOt work.
    "text-decoration:underline" for a:hover works perfect, but not the color.
    Would be nice if you could fix it!
    Thanks

    1. To those having issues with hover colors, it doesn\’t work as expected because of the way the colors get applied to the links (via inline styles in the tag itself). It can be made to work, however. All you need to do is add the CSS \”!important\” declaration to the color property for the hover style…do something like this, and it will work for you:

       .ctc a:hover {
       color: #f00 !important;
       }

       The \”!important\” tells the css engine to override all styles with this one.

       1. Thanks for the tip, Keith, it worked!

22. I see you deleted my last post. It wasn't spam btw. Not sure why you thought it was. Please email me or check out my website if you have any doubts. Anyway I solved the issue btw. My tags were being displayed by another plugin – I had to edit the part of the plugin that covered the tag cloud from <?php if(function_exists("wp_tag_cloud")) : ?>
    <?php wp_tag_cloud('smallest=12&largest=20&'); ?>
    to
    <?php if(function_exists("ctc")) : ?>
    <?php ctc('smallest=10&largest=28&unit=px'); ?>

23. I found this plugin via google today and i thought it sounded real good, so I installed it on my test system on my local drive. I activated the plugin and entered in settings, all seemed fine. But it doesn't seem to work, my tag cloud is still the WordPress default. I'm using wordPress 2.7.1 – will it work with this version? Is there anythign I might have missed?

24. I would prefer to not use the widget section and instead add the correct text directly into the right_sidebar.php file (I have to do this as for some reason widgets refuse to be added to the sidebar #2 (right sidebar) via the widget dashboard. I can use the widget dashboard to add teh ctc widget to the left sidebar but that is not where I want it).

    When I add teh recommended text, nothing happens. I tried adding:

    <?php ctc(); ?>

    to the php file as I had modified everything in the settings area. But nothing showed up. So I modifed the line to this:

    "<?php ('smallest=14&largest=36&unit=px&mincolor=#473C8Bb&maxcolor=#8B2500&format=array&showcats=no&showcount=yes&empty=no&order=DESC'); ?>" But still nothing. I do not think I have a ctc file anywhere.

    When I change it to: ctc<?php widget_ctc(); ?> I do get a tag cloud but alos addional unwanted text. So it is working, just not as I need it to.

    Any suggestions?

25. I have uploaded the tag-cloud.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory. I have activated the CTC plugin. I have modified the various options in the settings section. But when I go to the widgets section to add the CTC widget, I get this error every single time:

    Error 500 – Internal server error
    An internal server error has occured!
    Please try again later.

    Any thoughts?

26. Hey great plugin but is there a way to also include empty tags in tag clound?

27. Hi, I just installed the plugin (by the way, I am new to WP) but wanted to know where in the code I need to set up margins, right now the tags don't break and go to the right beyond my page. Any help is appreciated. Gracias

28. Hi,
    great plugin simple and exactly what I was looking for 🙂

    In the widget code, I just replace the ' ' between tag name and tag count by &npsp; to keep both on the same line.

    thx

29. i'd love a copy too!

    sdk [at] stephen daniel karpik [dot] com

    Thanks!

30. Is it possible to add a feature to sort tags by popularity and then alphabetically?

    e.g. If you have 4 tags and they are labeled as: student, classes, books, courses. Let say you have 10 posts that contain the student tag and the remaining 3 tags both have an equal number of 7 posts.

    The order for most popular would be: student, classes, books and courses.

    The order for most popular sorted alphabetically would be: student, books, classes and courses.

    Currently, Configurable Tag Cloud sorts by most popular, but for tags with the same post count the tags are listed randomly from what I can tell or at the very least they aren't listed alphabetically for tags that contain the same post count.

    In the future, do you think you can implement such features perhaps?

31. Good to hear! I suggest you update the description of your plugin at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/configurable-…to reflect that. It currently (7-Feb-2009) says "Compatible up to: 2.5" and I get a message "Warning: This plugin has not been tested with your current version of WordPress." when I select it for installation on 2.7 (which I will ignore based on your response).

    Thank you for writing this.

    1. I have updated the readme in the WP Extend repository to reflect compatibility up to version 2.8-bleeding-edge (just in case there's anyone running that version in a production environment). I've been meaning to update the readme for a while to reflect current compatibility, and finally made time this morning.

32. Oh man, thanks so much for this. Totally solved all of my tag angst.

33. Hi, Great plugin – works like a charm!
    Is it possible to make a dropdown (or have the option for that) instead of a list or flat? how and where can I hack tag-cloud.php to make it possible?

    Thanks!

34. I would like to exclude certain tags from the sidebar widget cloud display. The 'Tags to Exclude' field does not seem to be working. I'm using CTC 4.5.

    I saw the following so I don't know if this functionality is working yet: "The widget gives you the capability to modify almost all of the settings of the wp_tag_cloud() template tag. At this point, you can do everything but exclude tags from the cloud display. I’m still working on this, but at this point, all the options most users would want are represented."

    Thanks. -Ali

35. Great plugin!

36. The download link for CTC has been fixed. You may resume downloading from the CTC page.

37. Thank you Keith 🙂
    Have a nice day

38. Hello 🙂 sorry for my bad english language. The donwload link don't work 🙁

39. Great plugin! Do you have any plans to make it compatible with 2.7 WordPress?

40. It IS compatible with WP 2.7. It's running just fine on this site on2.7.

41. I'm not sure why this would be the case. As you can see here, it works as expected with multi-word tags (check the "weight loss" and "sad but true" tags). Do you have a link I can look at to try to figure out what's going on?

42. Hello! Your plugin is great, but I noticed something strange: when I click a tag with two words nothing is returned. I'm using WordPress 2.6.5 and CTC 4.5. Thanks.

43. The easiest way would be to use the template tag (<?php ctc('');?>) and make a new page template that you use for the page where youwant the cloud to appear. Otherwise, you could use a plugin thatallows you to use php directly in the page contents, but I've never hadmuch success with that method.

44. Hello. Great plugin, thanks. How can I display the tag cloud in a page ?

45. Yeah, you can use it anywhere in your template that you'd like, butyou'll have to use the template tag version instead of the widget.Just put <?php ctc(''); ?> wherever you'd like it to appear, andset the options in the WordPress Admin panel.

46. Thanks for a great plugin. Is it possible to display the tag cloud outside of the sidebar? In the content or footer section, for example?

47. Thanks for the plugin works really well

48. AFAIK, there's no reason why you couldn't have two (or more) tag cloudsin your sidebar. You'd just need to use the template tag method (i.e.,add <?php ctc(''); ?> to your sidebar template) instead of thewidget method.As for the filtering, The way the plugin currently operates, it's anall or nothing affair. You might be able to do some filtering usingthe array cloud format, but truthfully, I'm not sure how you'd go aboutdoing it.

49. Great tag cloud plugin. this is exactly the one that I'm looking for

50. Very awesome plugin. I am using it with my blog and love the design and feel. Keep up the good work.

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