Ryboe Tag Cloud Plugin for WordPress
Familiar with seeing tag clouds around the net? Would you like to display the content on your WordPress blog as tags and tag clouds respectively. Then look no further. We have released the first version of the Ryboe Tag Cloud Plugin for WordPress. This plugin uses the WordPress widget system to place a tag cloud in your sidebar. With a fast and easy install, you can quickly convert your categories to "tags" and have a tag cloud in your sidebar in no time!
Download the Ryboe Tag Cloud Plugin
Here's how to install it:
- Make sure you have WordPress Widgets installed on your .blog. If you don't, go ahead and head here for official instructions on how to install WordPress widgets. Note** The download link is on the left side of that page.
- After verifiying that you have WordPress Widgets installed, download the Ryboe Tag Cloud Plugin for WordPress.
- Unzip the file and copy it to your /wp-content/plugins/widgets directory with all of your other widgets.
- Log into your WordPress Dashboard and head to the "Plugins" menu. Find the plug-in entitled "Ryboe Tag Cloud" and select "activate"
- Navigate to Presentation -> Sidebar Widgets and drag the "Ryboe Tag Cloud" onto your sidebar layout. (Be sure to change your title here if you wish to have one).
- Visit your blog to see your new tag cloud!
It's that quick and easy. Now you have a slick little tag cloud of all your post categories on your sidebar!
January 21st, 2007 at 1:02 am
I'm having a problem with this because I don't have I use the default style of permalinks. Now whenever someone clicks on a category in the cloud they get an error page. Is there any way I can fix this so I don't have to change how my permalinks are created? It would screw up way to many posts with internal links if I have to change that option.
January 23rd, 2007 at 11:43 am
I like your tag cloud so much better than mine. Good work!
January 24th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
when i log into wordpress there is no option for "Navigate to Presentation -> Sidebar Widgets and drag the "Ryboe Tag Cloud" onto your sidebar layout. (Be sure to change your title here if you wish to have one)."
is this widget only for wordpress.com blogs, because i need to know the code to be able to put this to use. would you be able to provide that code for me?
January 25th, 2007 at 12:42 am
@Peng
In a future release I will make the links intelligent off of what you choose to use for your permalinks… right now this only works if you use the default permalink settings for categories.
@cheney
Yes the widget is for use with WordPress blogs. In order to get the "Presentation -> Sidebar Widgets" option, you need to install the Sidebar Widgets into your WordPress template. Instructions for this are available here: http://automattic.com/code/widgets/
After you get the widgets installed you simply activate the Ryboe Tag Cloud in your Plugin Manager and it will become available!
February 4th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Great widget, just what I was looking for. This is probably a stupid user error, but I have some problem with my permalink structure that's preventing this from working. It installed and displays just fine, but when you click on a category you get a 500 error. Could you possibly take a look and tell me if anything jumps out at you? I'm far from tech-savvy, so I'm sure it's just something I've overlooked and nothing to do with your plugin.
Thanks!
February 19th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Is there a way to invoke the widget as a plugin/php code on a page as well?
I'm using it on my sidebar, but want to add it o my search page.
February 21st, 2007 at 2:20 am
As the poster said above me that it work just fine, except that the way the url for my blog which resides in a folder name "Blog" When click on a category(cloud) it takes me to the Homepage, because that way it's set up as http://www.domain/blog/index.php/ then when click on a cloud-category the url gets redirected to http://www.domain/category/on-the-net/. This is probably the way my permalinks is set up maybe because the blog is on a ub folder? Anyways, nice tag cloud.
February 21st, 2007 at 10:34 am
hi, this is exactly what i'm looking for…except, i want post tags in addition to the ones set as categories and for those to be what shows up in the cloud. i can't figure out where to add this to wordpress. i'd be super grateful if you could point me to something.
February 25th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Thanks for the great plugin! The download link points to an .php file that delivers an empty .zip, but I was able to get the zip directly from http://www.ryboe.com/downloads/ryboe_tag_cloud.zip. Is that just my browser misbehaving?
February 25th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
[...] I found a nice Tag Cloud Plugin for WordPress, which also introduced me to the wonderful world of WordPress widgets. The widgets offer an easy way to customize WordPress with a web-based drag-and-drop interface instead of having to muck with the template code. Dropping in the tag cloud widget gives you the expected tag cloud of your categories, which is more compact and informative than the usual long list of them. [...]
March 7th, 2007 at 8:53 am
Hi Sean,
I have downloaded and installed the widget, activated it and all seems fine. Except for the fact that the links created by the tags show up as a non-existent url.
Let me just give you an example:
http://www.bobmeetsworld.com/
The tag will link to http://www.bobmeetsworld.com/category/misc/ while that page is actually http://www.bobmeetsworld.com/?cat=1
The permalinks are set to default on wordpress 2.1.
Any ideas what this might be ?
I have looked at several tag cloud widgets but yours seems to be precisely what I was looking for.
March 8th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
[...] We received such a positive reaction after the release of the Ryboe Tag Cloud for WordPress Plugin. It seems that there are many people out there with WordPress blogs who are looking for a simple and elegant tag cloud to show off their category tags. Well, we are pleased to announce that we have added a nice little enhancement to the plugin in the form of an update — version 1.01. [...]
March 29th, 2007 at 6:35 am
Nice work - I'm putting my hand up also for support of other permalink styles.
Can't wait!
April 7th, 2007 at 4:46 am
I've already got widgets working, but even though I activate the plugin it doesn't appear alongside my other widgets (such as WPG2) under Presentation -> Sidebar widgets.
I'm running Wordpress 2.0.10 under Debian Etch with PHP 5 CGI (5.2.0-8+etch1) and I'm not seeing any errors reported so I feel at something of a loss..
Any clues ?
June 18th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Gracias men.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:48 pm
@jesse: I had a similar problem. How I fixed it was to go in and edit the ryboe_tag_cloud.php file manually.
I changed the following line from:
$link = isset($options[1]) ? 'category/'.$value['slug'].'/' : '?cat='.$value['id'];
to:
$link = isset($options[1]) ? 'wordpress/category/'.$value['slug'].'/' : '?cat='.$value['id'];
As my blog is located at mydomain.com/wordpress
I hope that helps you.
July 30th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Great looking widget, and thanks also to Rosario: adding the subfolder string into the php file did the trick — the links to category pages now work fine!
February 26th, 2008 at 12:38 am
[...] Past Releases: Release 1.01 Original Release [...]
February 26th, 2008 at 12:39 am
New version released! Please check it out here: http://www.ryboe.com/2008/02/26/ryboe-tag-cloud-v102-released.html
March 7th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Nice looking widget but the title is misleading. I guess its only for categories but does not actually use your tags at all? I suggest you change the name then.
Thanks for your hard work in any case.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:12 am
very happy to have tag cloud plugin for Wordpress
Great job