Comments on: No Widget Category Cloud Wordpress Plugin

By: Kjetil

Kjetil — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:56:06 +0000

Hi - Thanks a lot for a nice little plugin! A nice, compact way to give access to other categories (in my case, Italian regions in an Italy guide).
On my wish list, too, is the possibility to exclude certain categories from being displayed.
Ideally you might make it a widget with both this and the possibility to add in as many widgets as one likes. Then (eventually using it with the Widget Logic plugin) one could decide in which categories this widget sas to be displayed.
Anyhow - thanks a lot. It did the trick.
Kjetil
- http://www.dolcevita.no

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:05:23 +0000

@Asuka_Aki: There is no way to include tags. Per the name of this plugin it is for categories only.

By: Asuka_Aki

Asuka_Aki — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:27:20 +0000

Is there a way to include tags in the tag cloud. I onnly get the categories.

By: Aryana

Aryana — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:02:56 +0000

Thanks, this is exactly what I needed! :)

By: Dimitry Wolotko

Dimitry Wolotko — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:38:14 +0000

Hi!
Good plugin! Thanks you!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:02:46 +0000

@Murillo: Exclusion was never completed in this plugin. As I wrote this plugin for use on my site specifically and it works as I need I will more than likely not continue developing this plugin until I require a change for my site.

In the event that I for some reason in the near future decide to start developing this plugin again it will probably go through a complete rewrite.

By: Murillo

Murillo — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:27:55 +0000

Sorry U forgot to put how I´m trying to exclude. Here it is:

By: Murillo

Murillo — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:26:33 +0000

Matt, I´m trying to figure out how do I exclude some categorie from the cloud.

I saw at your plugin something about $exclude, but I do not understood how to make it work.

“function nw_catcloud($small=75,$big=200,$unit=’%',$align=’left’,$orderby=’name’,$order=’ASC’,$min=1,$hide_empty=1,$title=”,$exclude=”) ”

i´m trying this:

get_var(”SELECT term_ID FROM $wpdb->terms WHERE name=’Asides’”); ?>

get_var(”SELECT term_ID FROM $wpdb->terms WHERE name=’Featured’”); ?>

If you could help me, I would be glad. Thanks and congrats for great plugin.

Murillo

By: tricky

tricky — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:30:20 +0000

Matt,

Thanks for your reply. But i managed to fix it by copying the wp_tag_cloud function to wp_cat_cloud, and changing its behavior to pick categories instead of tags and worked fine. It´s pretty similar to yours.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:51:34 +0000

It has to do with the way that the “font steps” are calculated. It uses the smallest and biggest for beginning points and then does some calculations to determine what step between them to use based on the number of posts in that category. These calculations are found between lines 66 to 92 of no-widget-category-cloud.php. So basically the way that the calculations are done never allows the text to actually equal the smallest or largest value specified.

I may in a future release find a way to change this behavior.