Finally, I found found the time to do some much needed work on some of my plugins. the first to receive an update is Ultimate Category Cloud (UCC) which now moves to version 3 and is fully Wordpress 2.3 compatible among other things.
Changelog
- Now WP2.3 compatible, thanks to Mephisto, Jason Ellis and Jan Weinschenker for their suggestions.
- Now displays weight and coloured categories as default behaviour
- Default ‘largest’ size is now 200% not 250%
- Removed the get_all_cats function, it is no longer needed
- New function for better conversion of hex colours to decimal values
- Font size weight should now more accurately reflect the largest and smallest font sizes that you specify
- Reworked weighted colouring, now only requires you to specify one colour.
Installation and Usage
To install UCC simply download the zip file below, extract the contents and upload to the wp-content/plugins directory on your server.
The display a ‘cloud’ on your site simply modify your theme to insert one of these snippets of code where you would like the ‘cloud’ to appear.
Default Weighted and Colored
<?php weighted_categories(); ?>
Weighted but not Colored
<?php weighted_categories(1,0); ?>
Colored but not Weighted
<?php weighted_categories(0,1); ?>
Neither Weighted nor Colored
<?php weighted_categories(0,0); ?>
To choose your own color add the third parameter
<?php weighted_categories(1,1,$basecolor="#ff0000"); ?>
Advanced usage
You can also specify how large or how small the weighted text should appear, if needed you can also exclude specific categories from the cloud, and by changing the $method option to ‘0’ you can reverse the coloring of the categories (ie. the lightest becomes the darkest and vice versa
<?php weighted_categories($weighted=1, $colored=1, $basecolor="#CCCCCC", $smallest=70, $largest=200, $unit="%", $exclude='', $method=1); ?>
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I’m new to tags/clouds so bare with me, but will this work with your K2 mod or will i have to add the code manually?
@Dunstin: you will probably need to add the code in yourself, as any code that might have been included in Redoable may not be compatible with version 3.0
Awesome! Thanks a bunch Dean!
Is there a demo of this plugin up anywhere?
hi, i’m too using you famous redoable theme, in combination with wordpress 2.3 (dutch).
i have a little problem with the UCC 3, i get the catogorie-menu on the right side, so far so good, but when i look at the entries under it it shows something like this:
Project-Id-Version: WordPress 2.3 Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: POT-Creation-Date: 2005-02-15 10:33-0600 PO-Revision-Date: 2007-10-04 18:44+0100 Last-Translator: Toon Language-Team: WordPress NL - Toon Vermeulen MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;
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i cannot find those in my database, so it will probably get it from some php scipt, just don’t know which one. is there a way to get this to function propely on WP2.3
update: i’ve managed to retrieve where the app is getting the data from, it’s from the language file: in my case nl_NL.mo
again an update i posted a screenshot http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/5025/61965959gg8.jpg
the black text under the redoable logo is what i need, but the stuff above it, doesn’t make sense.
Took me a little while to figure out the download link was top left ;-). Great plugin, installed and worked right first time…that is the way it should be! Now time to implement and update all my wordpress sites.
How do you exclude multiple categories from the cloud?