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Added by a PAL to FAQ PAL — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:57:34 +0000

A Very Nice Way To Display Your Tag Cloud…

I recently came upon a WordPress plugin which I couldn’t keep from installing on my blog. If you look at my sidebar, you will see it at work. It’s called the wp-cumulus. It puts the tags in your WordPress blog (and categories too) in a nice animate…

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A Very Nice Way To Display Your Tag Cloud…

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:55:54 +0000

@Allan – I guess its one of those things that makes your blog a little different from time to time.

I am sure there will be a point where I will also remove it.

Till then, it is really cool.

By: Allan

Allan — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:10:26 +0000

I’ve used Cumulus before and found it was a fun way to display my tags. However, I like to keep things simple so I went back to my default tag plugin on WordPress.

By: izu mou

izu mou — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:24:38 +0000

Well this is a wonderful plugin.I have also came accross this in Blogger.Blogger also have this widget!

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:47:39 +0000

Yep, from the SEO perspective, its useless. But it looks so cool

By: winston

winston — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:22:32 +0000

yep it does look really cool, but search engines are going to have a hard time following those links in a flash plugin. So it would seem advisable to have the old cloud in there too – like you do! Nice effect though!!

By: Saad Akhtar

Saad Akhtar — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:49:07 +0000

Yup. Seems like a good implementation.

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:44:02 +0000

@Saad – your blog is actually where I saw this. I agree with you and that is why I have both my Tag Clouds in the Side Bar

By: Saad Akhtar

Saad Akhtar — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:22:28 +0000

I had this plugin on my blog, but now went back to the old text based cloud. One problem I faced was it’s too small. For a sidebar implementation at least.

Most of my tags were “hidden” behind the sphere When there are text tags, all are upfront so people can quickly browse through. Here it’s more of an exploratory interaction. It’s cool, but require effort. So if someone is not looking for a tag, s/he is less likely to use it, as opposed to text tags, where everything is upfront and that too in variable sizes of popularity.

Just my opinion obviously….