Adding tag cloud to your blog
We continue our Wordpress education - so far we’re still in the freshmen category, but pretty soon we’ll be bale to customize and upgrade the blog to the extent of a real complex machine! Let’s figure out what is the easiest way to add a tag cloud on to the blog
In order to make it nice and easy let’s use a plug-in for a tag cloud instead of pasting a code into a sidebar.php document. There’s plenty of plug-ins around, but as an example I’ll show you how things are done with the one I’m using myself) No objections? Cool.
The plug-in is called TagALLY. It’s good cause there are plenty of customization options to make anyone happy. You’ll be able to change the color of each individual tag, its size etc. Let’s install the plug-in step by step again.
1. Go to http://blog.tagally.com/2008/05/30/tagally-for-wp-v031-the-wordpress-tag-cloud-plugin-download and download the plug-in.
2. Unzip and save the folder in wp-content/plugins derictory.
3. Go to the Plug-ins section of the admin part of your WP blog - you may find it in the top right of the page stuck between “Settings” and “Users”.
4. Activate the plugin and visit Widgets section. Add the TagAlly widget to the list of the widgets you currently use.
5. Then click on the Dashboard button. You may find it on the very top page on the left. Basically, dashboard is the homepage of the admin area of the blog.
6. There you are - click on the TagAlly button and get down to optimizing your tag cloud.
Congrats! You’ve just added a tag cloud to your site. Take your time and celebrate the occasion before we learn something new.
Tags: adding tag cloud, tag cloud, TagAlly