Tag/Category Cloud Plugin For WordPress
If you ever wanted to create a tag cloud for your WordPress powered blog, I’ve found a really nice plugin for you!
Category Cloud (v. 1.5) is a WordPress plugin that shows categories as a colored tag cloud. You can see it live in my sidebar. Take a look at the “Top Categories” section.
The plugin installation process is pretty easy. Download the plugin, unzip it, upload ‘category-cloud.php’ to your WordPress plugins directory and activate the plugin. You need to insert <?php category_cloud();?> where you want your category cloud to appear. That’s all.
Main Features:
- Support for Wordpress 2.1 (should work on older wordpress versions, but its not tested, Ill be happy to have some feedbacks)
- Customizable max and min font size and unit (px, pt, em)
- Categories shown in ascending, descending or random order
- Possibility to exclude given categories
- Possibility to exclude categories with less than a given number of posts
- Full integration with wordpress administration panel
- before and after tags – You can use this option to put your categories (tags) between <li></li>
- Categories can be sort by ascending or descending number of posts
- Option to show a fixed number of categories (this way you can do a top 10 categories) - My favorite option! If you haven’t already noticed, I’m using this option to show the “Top Categories” section in my sidebar.
- Colored cloud, with colors based on the importance of each category
For the people who want to know if it works on WordPress 2.1.2, my answer is: Yes, it works perfectly on WordPress 2.1.2 because my blog is powered by WP 2.1.2 and you can see this plugin working in my sidebar!
In case you are using a hosted WordPress.COM blog, you may want to read my previous article: “Tag Cloud Generator For WordPress.COM Blogs“.
[tags]Blogging, WordPress, WordPress Plugins, Tags, Tag Clouds, Category Clouds, Category Cloud 1.5[/tags]
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This is a good plugin, I may have to check into it once my site gets larger.
Thanks for the tip!