WP Cumulus released!
A little while ago I posted a Flash based tag cloud frontend here that was hoping to convert into a plugin for WordPress. I had some time on my hands tonight, so I decided to finish it. The actionscript needed a major overhaul, and in order to allow decent integration into as many layouts as possible the plugin itself needed an options page. Thanks to WP’s brilliant documentation, and lots of helpful posts by people who’s PHP skills far exceed mine, it’s now done.
You can see it in action here.
Version history
| Version | Changes |
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| Version 1.12+ | Moved to WordPress.org/extend. |
| Version 1.11 | Restores an earlier fix for IE to force loading of the Flash movie. |
| Version 1.1 |
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| Version 1.05 |
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| Version 1.04 |
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| Version 1.03 |
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| Version 1.02 | Fixes issues with sites not loading after activation, reduces server load and fixes lost spaces in tags. Thanks to Dimitry for helping me debug these issues. |
| Version 1.01 | Fixes an issue where the cloud would spin out of control when the browsers loses focus on OSX. |
| Version 1.00 | Initial release version. |
Here’s what you should know about “WP Cumulus”:
Installation
- Make sure you’re running WordPress version 2.3 or better. It really won’t work with older versions. Really.
- Download the zip file and extract the contents.
- Upload the “wp-cumulus” folder to your plugins directory (wp-content/plugins/)
- Activate the plugin through the ‘plugins’ page in WP.
- See “Options->WP Cumulus” to adjust things like display size, etc…
Using WP Cumulus
In order to actually display the tag cloud, you have three options.
- Create a page or post and type [WP-CUMULUS ] anywhere in the content, but without the space before the last bracket. This ‘tag’ will be replaced by the flash movie when viewing the page.
- Add the following code anywhere in your theme to display the cloud.
<?php wp_cumulus_insert(); ?>This can be used to add WP Cumulus to your sidebar, although it may not actually be wide enough in many cases to keep the tags readable. - The plugin adds a widget, so you can place it on your sidebar through ‘Design’->’Widgets’. The widget uses a separate set of settings, so it’s possible to have different background colors, sizes, etc.
About the options
The options page allows you to change the Flash movie’s dimensions, change the text color as well as the background.
Width of the Flash tag cloud
The movie will scale itself to fit inside whatever dimensions you decide to give it. If you make it really small, chances are people will not be able to read less-used tags that are further away. Anything up from 500 will work fine.
Height of the Flash tag cloud
Ideally, the height should be something like 3/4 of the width. This will make the rotating cloud fit nicely, while the extra width allows for the tags to be displayed without cropping. Text is horizontal by nature, which is why the ideal aspect is slightly landscape even though the could is circular.
Color of the tags
Type the hexadecimal color value you’d like to use for the tags, but not the “#” that usually precedes those in HTML. Black (000000) will obviously work well with light backgrounds, white (ffffff) is recommended for use on dark backgrounds.
Background color
The hex value for the background color you’d like to use. This options has no effect when “Use transparent mode” is selected.
Use transparent mode
Turn on/off background transparency. Enabling this might cause issues with some (mostly older) browsers. Under Linux, transparency doesn’t work in at all due to a known limitation in the Flash player.
Rotation speed
Allows you to change the speed of the sphere. Options between 25 and 500 work best.
Distribute tags evenly on sphere
When enabled, the movie will attempt to distribute the tags evenly over the surface of the sphere.
Display
Choose whether to show tags only, categories only, or both mixed together. Choosing ‘both’ can result in ‘duplicate tags’ if you have categories and tags with the same name. These words will appear twice, with one linking to the tag and the other to the category overview.
wp_tag_cloud parameters
This setting allows you to pass parameters to the wp_tag_cloud function, which is used to fetch the tag cloud. Use caution with this setting. Everything you enter will be passed to the function. Be sure to read the function’s manual. Please also note that these parameters affect tags only. If you’ve chosen to show categories or both, the category ‘tags’ will not be affected.
Troubleshooting / issues / other
I see a regular tag could and a line of of text about how I need the Flash plugin
It appears you either do not have Flash Player 9 or better installed, or you’ve disabled javascript. If you’re absolutely positive that both are available, try enabling the “Insert SWFObject include into header” setting in the WP Cumulus options page.
Hey, but what about SEO?
I’m not sure how beneficial tag clouds are when it comes to SEO, but just in case WP Cumulus outputs the regular tag cloud (and/or categories listing) for non-flash users. This means that search engines will see the same links.
I’d like to change something in the Flash movie, will you release the .fla?
No. You can contact me about doing custom versions if you like, but I won’t be releasing the source code for the Flash movie.
My theme/site appears not to like this plugin. It’s not displaying correctly.
Older versions had issues with PHP 5.2 (or better). This has been fixed. If you’re having trouble getting WP-Cumulus to work, please try a different theme and check for HTML markup errors. If this does not help, please contact me with as much info as you can.
Some of my tags occasionally hit the sides of the movie and are cropped
If this happens you should change the aspect for the movie to make it wider. This can be done by increasing the width, but also by decreasing the height. Both will make the movie “more landscape” giving long tags more room.
Some characters are not showing up
Because of the way Flash handles text, only Latin characters are supported in the current version. This is due to a limitation where in order to be able to animate text fields smoothly the glyphs need to be embedded in the movie. The plugin download includes the Flash movie’s source code, which wil allow you to create a version for your language. There’s a text field in the root of the movie that you can use to embed more characters. If you change to another font, you’ll need to edit the Tag class as well.
I’m not using WordPress…
- Steve Springett has ported this to Movable Type. More info over on his site.
- Michael Robinson has ported WP-Cumulus to RapidWeaver, see his tutorial here.
- I wrote this post on how to use the flash movie in other contexts.
When I click on tags, nothing happens.
This is usually caused by a Flash security feature that affects movies served from another domain as the surrounding page. If your blog is http://yourblog.com, but you have http://www.youblog.com listed as the ‘WordPress address’ under Settings -> General this issue can occur. In this case you should adjust this setting to match your blog’s actual URL. If you haven’t already, I recommend you decide on a single URL for your blog and redirect visitors using other options. This will increase your search engine ranking and in the process help solve this issue 
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Fantastic. Thanks for releasing this. As soon as I saw your first post about it I hoped you’d get this into a plugin. Great work.
Comment by Neil MacLean — March 15, 2008 @ 10:39 pm
hey roy..
i like the idea but i’m losing my style sheet when i activate your plugin? i’m up to date version wise.. i’ve got very few plugins enabled..? have you heard anything similar?
Comment by david windham — March 16, 2008 @ 4:14 pm
@David: There appears to be a closing tag missing for one of the scripts in your blog’s header. Apparently my plugin adding further code to the header caused that to act up. I’m pretty sure that if you fix that, WP Cumulus will work fine.
Comment by Roy — March 17, 2008 @ 9:31 am
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Now this is what I call a tag cloud. Works like a charm. Initially I had the same problem as David but I was able to fix it. In my case it was the lightbox plugin that interferred with the wp_cumulus
@David: Look at your source code without the wp_cumulus on your page. You will see which plugin is ‘incorrect’. Disable it and put the wp_cumulus code back in.
Comment by Richard — March 17, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
Hi,
Thanks for a fun plugin!
But I can’t seem to get this working. My blog is in Japanese. Will it work with multi-byte? I’ve tried using the other tagcloud.swf as well.
You can check out the page here.
http://www.ad-minister.net/tagcloud2/
For some reason, the whole source code of that page has vanished…
Comment by yoichi — March 19, 2008 @ 4:04 am
Hi Yoichi. I personally have no experience in dealing with the japanese character set in Flash. However, even if the tag cloud doesn’t display your language I can not think of a reason why it should kill the entire page. Have you tried deselecting the “insert SWFObject…” setting in the options panel?
Comment by Roy — March 19, 2008 @ 8:43 am
Hi Roy,
Thanks for your quick response and also sending over the new tagcloud.swf file.
But unfortunately it is still not working. The insert SWFObject…” setting has been deselected since I do have another plugin using it.
Strange…
Comment by yoichi — March 19, 2008 @ 10:38 am
@yoichi: Since the page breaks completely, there’s very little I can do to debug the situation…
Comment by Roy — March 19, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
“My theme/site appears not to like this plugin. It’s not displaying correctly.
First thing you should try is to turn off the “Insert SWFObject include into header” option. This will probably render the plugin inoperable, but your blog should still work. If this fixes the issue then please try adding the SWFObject code manually into your blog’s header.php (just before the tag, and only if it’s not already there).”
- Sorry but don’t work with Wordpress 2.3.3 and firefox naviguator.
- It’s sure, because i have 0 plugins and original base theme.
- When this plugins is active it destroy all the theme
I’m very sad, because this plugins show great
Comment by 3psyl0n — March 20, 2008 @ 6:19 am
Yes, same here. Breaks everything. And I’m working on a very, very simple site. I’m going to look into the source and try to fix it myself, but I thought I’d let you know.
(In FF and Safari AND IE, on OSX with Parallels.)
Comment by christopher — March 26, 2008 @ 5:09 pm
It looks like it has something to do with your function
wp_cumulus_createflashcode()
Comment by christopher — March 26, 2008 @ 5:18 pm
… regardless of whether or not the function has been initialized by calling your build-function within the site.
Comment by christopher — March 26, 2008 @ 5:19 pm
I’m working to resolve this issue. Unfortunately I do not have no way of recreating the error, so I’m working in the dark… Please hang in there for a little while. As soon as I get this figured out I will post a fix here.
UPDATE: Version 1.02 aims to fix these problems.
Comment by Roy — March 26, 2008 @ 8:14 pm
Hi, I’m making a blog and I use wordpress, I try to add your aplication and i can’t do it, the plugin is active, and doesn’t matter if i make a page or a post, I can’t see it in my page. I tryed to add the code : in the theme, but this doesn’t works to, plase if anybody can help me, I’m lost.
THANKS!!!
Comment by german — March 27, 2008 @ 6:16 am
Hi German. I can actually see the tag cloud on the “tags” page of your site, as well as underneath the main content. It is however white on a white background and very hard to spot. Also, you have only a single tag available. Try writing some content and adding a few more tags.
I changed the default setting to non-transparent in version 1.02 to avoid this type of confusion.
Comment by Roy — March 27, 2008 @ 9:43 am
This is a gag …
On v1.01 plugins crashed theme when i actived it
On v1.02 plugins don’t crashed when i active it, but crash when i use it with [WP-CUMULUS] in a post
I ve a clean install of wordpress whith no plugins, and the blue default theme of wordpress 2.3.3
I never seen the beautiful 3D tags on my wordpress blog
Comment by Alpha — March 28, 2008 @ 10:21 pm
This plugin (the implementation anyway) is now running within Movable Type. So for the bloggers on MT who want this to use WP-Cumulus, you can download the widget at: http://www.6000rpms.com/blog/2008/04/04/flash-tag-cloud-for-mt-4.html
Thanks Roy. This is one of the coolest Tag Cloud implementations I’ve seen!
Comment by Steve — April 4, 2008 @ 9:50 pm
Hello,
can you do the same plugin for categories??? It will be great.
Thanks
Comment by RZ1 — April 7, 2008 @ 10:07 pm
@RZ1: That would be entirely possible. However, I feel this effect suits tag clouds better. I’ll keep this in mind for version 2 though…
Comment by Roy — April 8, 2008 @ 8:01 am
Hi again
Some idea for future version of wp-cumulus :
-sometimes, tags are staked, and it is dificult to see tags behind the other. Maybe improved random tags 3d distribution…
-multicolors tags?
-fastest travel to a tag in the back of “3d sphere”.
Comment by RZ1 — April 9, 2008 @ 9:34 pm
Hi
Great plugin ! Even with the speed of tags being a bit too high
Too bad i can’t make it work with my theme, WP-Premium (cf. demo here http://niss.gdc-hebergement.fr/WP/index.php?wptheme=WP_Premium_(niss) ). The header trick breaks the news slideshow (in flash too) and without modifying the header, i just see tags in text format (in my sidebar). I’m using WP 2.5 too.
Any idea of a solution for this ?
Comment by Stromb — April 12, 2008 @ 12:21 pm
Hi Stromb. Have you tried manually adding in the SWFObject lines into your header? There appears to be a lot of javascript in that theme, so my guess is that SWFObject doesn’t play nice with one of the other scripts. You could try adding in the lines (see above) at different places inbetween <head> and </head> in your theme’s header.php.
Comment by Roy — April 13, 2008 @ 11:46 am
why my sidebar can’t dispaly well
Comment by lokr — April 13, 2008 @ 3:40 pm
hi. maybe make an option to choose a different font, or find a pretty one that supports unicode. this one doesn’t and is not funny when there is a letter missing inside a word
Comment by picsel — April 14, 2008 @ 9:45 pm
Hi Picsel. If your language isn’t listed under the “Some characters are not showing up” header above, drop me an email….
Comment by Roy — April 15, 2008 @ 8:09 am
Hi Rob
I followed instructions on this page.
When using first rule => cf. step 2 :
Add the following code anywhere in your theme to display the cloud. This can be used to add WP Cumulus to your sidebar, although it may not actually be wide enough in many cases to keep the tags readable.
It just displays the cloud tag in html
So i used the solution in the FAQ => cf. My theme/site appears not to like this plugin. It’s not displaying correctly.
and then it explodes my flash slideshow (each items of the slideshow appeared in html one after each other etc…)
Sadly, even if i uderstand a bit code, i’m not a coder. Yes this Theme use a few script and i’m trying to see with his creator if he has a solution.
If you can, a good thing would be to make of it a widget for sidebar use. But it’s perhaps more complicated than it seems…
I’ll try to test again with my header to see if by chance it works. Anyway, that’s stil a great plug-in
Comment by Stromb — April 15, 2008 @ 6:03 pm
Sorry for long post, you may delete the last one.
Ok, i found what was the problem … It was the CTC Plug-in … (Configurable tag cloud). Now it runs very well in the sidebar with just cumulus insert php code. And with the slideshow in parallel in the header.
Now my only trouble with the cloud is it’s wider than higher, landscape style. But to insert it in a sidebar, it would be better if it was higher than wider, portrait style. My sidebar is already 320 pix wide, and i can’t expand it anymore.
I’ve tried to put it under the slideshow for instance, and it’s not nice anymore as both flash object are too big (and my theme in this case feels broken…).
If i change the size of the cloud, let’s say 320 * 640, tags are still like in a small landscape bubble, they don’t expand up and down if you see what i mean.
After that, if you allow me a critic, of course the speed of the cloud, which prevent from having time to read tags unless you put your mouse on them. I mean it’s a cloud, not a storm
The way it moves, it also distract attention too much.
Comment by Stromb — April 15, 2008 @ 6:36 pm
Hi Stromb. Thanks for looking into this. I’ll try the CTC plugin and see if I can somehow get the two to play nice. The plugin feeds the output from WP’s standard tag cloud template tags to the flash movie, so if any plugin alters that output I can see how things would go haywire.
As for the aspect ratio of the flash movie, I’m afraid that, considering how it’s a sphere and text is usually written horizontally, there’s actually very little I can do about it. One of my reasons for not including a widget is the fact that it doesn’t really work on a sidebar.
I’ll see if I can incorporate a speed control in furure versions. I personally feel it’s just fine this way though. Setting it to lower speeds Could make navigating to the tags furthest away in the background sluggish.
Comment by Roy — April 15, 2008 @ 7:42 pm
Couldn’t you shape the sphere like an egg ? (in vertical position)
Or perhaps simply making 2 spheres, like an 8, with tag from a to m in sphere 1 and tags from n to z in sphere 2 (ok, i’m not a coder …
) This way in a sidebar it’s easier to display the flash could vertically.
I mostly use the CTC plugin to gave a larger size to tags, as i have many (60 and more coming) and this helps creating a distingo between some tags who would be too much of the same size.
In my case, it’s mostly the theme i use and the idea i have of the overall aspect which “blocks” me. So all in all, it’s not really your plugin fault
I could also reduce the size of the slideshow, so to put it in my 320 wide sidebar, and then putting the flagcloud (hmm, nice name …) at the place of the slidshow you may say … hmm, i’ll try to see what it does.
As for the speed, yes, it still have to be a bit nervous. Perhaps it’s just me which is disturbed by the way it turns (when there’s no mouse over).
Comment by Stromb — April 15, 2008 @ 9:03 pm
Hi Roy – excellent work on this plugin, exactly what I was looking for! Thanks.
I only wish that it could be customised a little further to slow down the rotation speed, or disable rotation completely until mouseover and then disable again on mouseout. It’s a little too distracting when its spinning wildly if you have it in the sidebar or alongside primary content.
Also would love better support for more than the default 40 tags – I find if I increase the number to around 60 then they start to overlay pretty badly.
Keep it up!
Comment by coda — April 20, 2008 @ 2:39 pm
Hi I am using this plugin and its really great. Just 2 things that are needed.
1. I would like to alter the font
2. I have lots of tags overlapping making it difficult to click on. Is there a way to stop this happening?
Thanks
Comment by David — April 21, 2008 @ 2:18 pm
I also have a third suggestion for future versions. Can you make it so that when you mouse over an item it stops moving. That way you can get to all the tags even if they are overlapping and you don’t have to play catch when it moves away from your mouse.
Just an idea!
Comment by David — April 21, 2008 @ 2:24 pm
thanks for a great plugin!
one suggestion: could you add an option to limit the number of tags?
I’d like to set the cloud to only show the 10 most used tags, or something similar like that.
Also, because tags in the cloud often overlap, it would be great if you point on a tag with your mouse, it not only stops spinning, but zooms in on the tag to make it legible.
thanks!
Comment by erik stronks — April 27, 2008 @ 2:34 pm
Great Job. I got it running in minutes and think it looks just perfect. My suggestions to it: I have no idea about flash programming but I would prefer if the tag would could slow down a bit. Also I would like to build a page where the cloud fills the whole page but keep my small column version, too. // Anyway. Thanks a lot again. It looks very very nice.
Comment by Andreas — May 7, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
I used this plugin for a few days. It did some wacky things to my style sheet. Mainly not allowing the style sheet to load. The site would load without the style sheet when you first hit it. If the user reloaded the page manually then it loaded the style sheet. I can reproduce this at will when the plugin is activated. I hope this helps you debug it more.
Cheers.
Comment by The House of Husar — May 14, 2008 @ 5:15 pm
Hello !
How much tags are displaying ?
Could you add an option to choose how much tags will be displayed ?
Comment by Dric — May 22, 2008 @ 9:49 am
Hi Dric. Currently it uses WordPress’ default number of tags, which I think is 45 max. This works well and does not clutter the cloud too much in most cases. I am however planning to add a setting to the plugin that lets you override this, as well as other options. Planned for version 1.05.
Comment by Roy — May 22, 2008 @ 10:54 am
Awesome. I was able to make it work in a smooth way. Good work.
Comment by Muthu — May 22, 2008 @ 5:12 pm
Hello i have just installed this very nice plugin but i have 1 error when i try to validate my site:
Validation Output: 1 Error
1. Error Line 374, Column 522: element “tags” undefined.
…0″);so.addVariable(”tagcloud”, “%3Ca+href%3D%27http%3A%2F%2F
How can i fix it?
Thanks
Comment by switch — June 1, 2008 @ 7:17 pm
Hi Switch. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. This was caused by a minor character encoding issue. I fixed it and re-uploaded the zip archive. Since this is strictly a validation issue and does not affect performance, I see no point in calling it a new version or anything.
Comment by Roy — June 1, 2008 @ 7:56 pm
Thanks a lot Roy great work and congrats again for this plugin.
Comment by switch — June 1, 2008 @ 8:06 pm
Can u please help me with installing, im using the latest wordpress version , ur latest plugin version. everything is okay but the links on the tags doesn’t seem to work ?> any idea what can cause this and if u can plz take a look at www,tehnomaniac,info
Thanks in advance
Comment by Fadi Saaida — June 2, 2008 @ 11:29 pm
awesome. i sure wish i was using wordpress. would there be any way it can be used with joomla?
Comment by zonkie — June 3, 2008 @ 6:28 pm
Great !
just an idea to make it perfect : add support for categories. Ideally, I’d like 2 checkboxes, one to enable tags and the other categories, so that one could either have 2 widgets, or mix both in a single widget !
Cheers!
Comment by Dr. Goulu — June 6, 2008 @ 8:07 am
This plugin displays tags “how they _want_ to be displayed”
I’m constantly impressed with it.
I keep getting ideas on different ways to display data with this thing – I think I failed my last programming assignment because of wp_cumulus…
Thanks Roy, for creating such an amazing plugin – and thanks for being so patient with me!
Mike
Comment by Michael Robinson — June 11, 2008 @ 6:25 am
Looks amazing.
Comment by Fallen — June 12, 2008 @ 11:17 pm
is there a build for chinese characters ?
Thanks!
Comment by lkc — June 23, 2008 @ 10:55 am
Hi Ikc. No there isn’t currently. I’ve tried, but to no avail. It appears that my Arial font (supplied with Vista) does not contain Chinese (simplified) characters. Also, a version supporting Chinese would be very heavy in term of file size.
Comment by Roy — June 23, 2008 @ 11:02 am
great job!
ok with firefox but really don’t work with IE 7 for me …
Comment by Ben — June 24, 2008 @ 10:15 pm
Hi Ben. It appears your blog has some pretty serious markup errors. This was the first time I came across a page that the W3C validator could not even begin to validate. Please see http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myben.be%2F for details. This type of thing can easily break SWFObject and with it WP-Cumulus.
Comment by Roy — June 25, 2008 @ 7:13 am
Please tell me, how kind it supports Chinese?
Comment by Nicelover — June 28, 2008 @ 6:37 pm
Hi Nicelover. Currently, doing a chinese version is not an option for me. Not only do I lack the right fonts, but embedding thousands of characters would make the plugin very heavy and slow.
Comment by Roy — June 28, 2008 @ 8:21 pm
i can translate turkish.
Comment by sec k — June 29, 2008 @ 11:22 pm
Just wanted to drop a line and say thanks for the plugin. I’m using it on http://mba-geek.com and it really works well the theme.
Thanks again!
Owen
Comment by Owen — June 30, 2008 @ 2:38 pm
Hello.
I want to use this wonderful plug in.
But after all I cannot display the Japanese definitely.
I want to help with Japanization if good, but how will?
Though the English is not pride, I am glad when I contact it by an email.
Comment by wp-users.jp — July 4, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
Hi, I like this plugin, thank you very much. But I have a problem that my Chinese tags can’t be shown.
Looking forward for update.
Comment by clarezoe — July 6, 2008 @ 1:20 am
Wow! great plugin!
Does it work with Russian (cirilic) fonts?
Comment by coma — July 6, 2008 @ 12:37 pm
Superb!! Never thought the installation will be super easy. But setting through Setting > WP Cumulus is no use. Just set at Design > Widget > Add > Edit.
For me, this is the best plugin/widget I ever met. I means, in the term of installation.
Comment by Coisox — July 7, 2008 @ 4:58 am
@clarezoe, coma: There is a Cyrillic version (see above), but I’m afraid Chinese is not an option.
@Coisox: Whether you should use the widget settings or not depends on whether or not you’re using the widget or not.
Comment by Roy — July 7, 2008 @ 8:26 am
Hi there!
One question. Can I use this tagcloud as well for displaying the categories instead of the tags?
Thanks.
Comment by Niels — July 12, 2008 @ 5:53 pm
tq bro. nice work!
Comment by alone — July 12, 2008 @ 10:33 pm
Awesome Plugin. I have a problem though. when a tag is clicked on the cloud, the URL is redirected to http://the-geek.in/tag/ Somehow my tags cant be referenced
on this URL. Is there any problem with my TAGs ?
Comment by Ved — July 13, 2008 @ 3:42 pm
Hi Ved. The same thing happens when I click regular tags. I’m at a loss as to why, but it appears to have nothing to do with WP-Cumulus…
Comment by Roy — July 13, 2008 @ 6:38 pm
Yes, I also feel that I have goofed up somewhere in Wordpress settings. Can you please help me out with it ? How to set up tags so that http://the-geek.in/tag/ works fine.
Comment by Ved — July 14, 2008 @ 1:38 pm
@Ved: My guess is that it has something to with permalinks. Try disabling those for a moment and see if that helps. Other than that there’s very little I can think of. Perhaps the blog URL and WP install settings…
Comment by Roy — July 14, 2008 @ 1:58 pm
thanks bro…..it’s very cool widget…
Comment by yusdi — July 14, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
I have been using Wordpress for a long time and when I started, I used “categories” as my solution for “tags”. So, this is yet another vote for “category” support. my “tag cloud” is here (http://thesalmonfarm.org/blog/tagcloud/) and even though is uses categories under the covers, purpose and result is in deed a tag cloud. I suspect there are others, like me, that used categories as tags (even if we should have changed). Thanks !
Comment by Glen — July 14, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
Merci beaucoup,
Realy nice
Comment by Bentux — July 16, 2008 @ 1:13 pm
Yep ! magical plugin, man !!!!
Great great job..
i would like to be able to add more tags in it, though…
thanks a LOT !
Comment by LOmiG — July 16, 2008 @ 2:47 pm
Hi LOmiG. I was in the process of uploading version 1.1 when your comment rolled in. 1.1 gives you control over things like that
.
Comment by Roy — July 16, 2008 @ 2:48 pm
Hi Roy,
Thank you for this great plugin, that I use on my website since a few months without any problems…
(Sorry for my english, I’m only a french lawyer !).
I’m using IE7, and since I have upgraded Cumulus to 1.1, your tags-cloud appear (in the widget and the page) only on the first load of my site : if I go on another page end comme back on my homepage, nothing appears…
I just tested on FF, it’s OK : so can you explain to me ig there is something special to do to make it work correctly on IE7 ?
Thank you very much – and sorry again for this poor english…
Comment by Maître Mô — July 18, 2008 @ 5:10 pm
Your plugin is really fantastic AND very special.
Maybe its too good – and everybody will always look at those moving words, and nobody will look at the content of my webopage. (www.hannes-urdl.at)
The good thing is: Your tag cloud provides my content.
Thank you really.
Greetings from Austria.
Comment by Hannes — July 18, 2008 @ 11:30 pm
Hi Maître Mô. I fixed your issue in version 1.11. Thanks for pointing this out.
Comment by Roy — July 20, 2008 @ 11:44 am
Thank YOU, Roy, great and so fast job !!!
Comment by Maître Mô — July 21, 2008 @ 4:03 am
Hi Roy,
Brilliant plugin you’ve got here. I have a question though. Would it be possible to display the flash in a post? I have a revolving featured articles (they’re just posts) section on my WP site and would love to display it.
Cheers!
Comment by OMGriffin — July 21, 2008 @ 5:44 pm
Hi OMGriffin. That was actually the very first thing the plugin could do. Using the [WP-CUMULUS] “tag” you can place the sphere anywhere in a post or page. You do however have a single set of settings (under ’settings’->’WP-Cumulus’) for all instances you create this way (all besides the widget).
Comment by Roy — July 21, 2008 @ 6:19 pm
Thanks for this plugin !
I have added a feature in order to display default tag cloud when javascript is deactivated
Replace line 93 by :
$flashtag .= ”;
$defaultCloud = wp_tag_cloud(array(’format’=>’array’));
foreach ($defaultCloud as $defaultTag)
{
$flashtag .= $defaultTag.’ ‘;
}
$flashtag .= ”;
It’s more accessible
Thanks again !
Comment by teles — July 22, 2008 @ 8:28 pm
Hi Teles. I’m not quite sure what your code improves, as the original plugin already outputs the regular tag cloud as alternate content for the flash… I’ll look into it when I have time. Tnx.
Comment by Roy — July 22, 2008 @ 9:51 pm
Hi Roy.
First of all, I wanna say thank you very much for this, I love it
I am using version 1.05 now and I can’t seem to use the swf from latest version with my code now (based from 1.05)
anyway, haven’t investigated much about the problem but I’m sure its no biggie, and I’ll figure it out later.
Some of users are requesting the normal viewing of the tag clouds on my site so I made a “Cloud View” or “List view” on my page on http://www.143pinoy.com/tags/ to allow visitors to revert back to normal listing. Check it out
Thanks again and good luck
Comment by Fedmich — July 26, 2008 @ 6:30 pm
please can you add some function for opening tags in new tab?
Comment by mory — July 27, 2008 @ 2:10 am
@Fedmich: You really shouldn’t attempt to use different versions of the Flash movie and the plugin together. I’ve made a lot of little adjustments over time, to the point where it’s almost guaranteed to not work.
Your list view/cloud view switch is pretty nifty
@mory: Hmmm… I’m not sure that would be a good idea. People are not leaving your website when clicking tags, and the target attribute is on the way out as far as the W3C is concerned.
Comment by Roy — July 27, 2008 @ 10:25 am
Çok teşekkürler. kullanıcam bunu.
Comment by Volkan — July 27, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
Portuguese Version – Download
Comment by Alexandre Pereira — July 27, 2008 @ 7:51 pm
Sorry,i had problem with host, new portuguese version – Download.
Comment by Alexandre Pereira — July 28, 2008 @ 9:35 pm
It is ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL and I love the way the flash overrides the template design, with floating words anywhere… that was exactly the effect I wanted for my blog!
ciao
Comment by tt — July 29, 2008 @ 5:43 pm
For some reason, the latest version (1.12) won’t work on worpress 2.6. 1.11 works flawlessly on 2.6.
Comment by Timmy — July 31, 2008 @ 9:21 pm
Hi Timmy. Did you upload only the innermost ‘wp-cumulus’ folder? There’s an extra folder with the same name around the actual plugin (and the Flash source files), but you should only upload the inner one.
I’m looking into ways to fix this. I’ll probably have to remove the extra folder by rearranging the files in the current release and perhaps exclude the sources from the main download.
Comment by Roy — July 31, 2008 @ 11:53 pm
Love yout plugin since the first time see it. I tried to use it to my blog but it show’s up too small since I use 2 sidebars. Sorry
Comment by mocona — August 1, 2008 @ 4:35 am
Way to go, this plugin looks like a great way to make use of the boring, and quite frankly, ugly ass tag cloud. I haven’t installed it just yet, but I am sure it will be one the best plugins that I’ve found. Nice work!
Comment by Bryson — August 1, 2008 @ 7:05 am
Русская версия плагина тут: http://www.wordpressplugins.ru/look/wp-cumulus.html
Russian version of the plugin here: http://www.wordpressplugins.ru/look/wp-cumulus.html
Comment by Flector — August 1, 2008 @ 9:50 am
Thank you man… This nice plug-in. I used this. perfect
congrulations
Comment by Kenan Hudabi — August 1, 2008 @ 11:48 am
Yes. I copied the inner folder into the webspace. activated the plugin, and then add a wigdet on the sidebar. It didn’t work.
Also did other methods:
Upgrade automatically from wordpress admin page. Managed to upgrade but it didn’t work as well.
Comment by Timmy — August 1, 2008 @ 1:26 pm
I have the same problem. With Wordpress 2.6 and PHP 5 (maybe this is the problem ?) 1.05 works fine, but in 1.12 no tags are displayed.
I haven’t tested 1.1 and 1.11 yet.
Comment by Dennis — August 1, 2008 @ 1:36 pm
when you install it with the build in update thingy in wordpress, things go wrong. You have to manually upload it to your site. At least, in my case. now version 1.12 works great!
Comment by impulse — August 1, 2008 @ 6:31 pm
I’ve been using this plugin for a month now, works great. Did “upgrade” yesterday in Wordpress for the plugin, and it broke. No longer showed flash movie. So I re-uploaded the old version and it works fine. There seems to be a bug in the new version of the flash movie.
Comment by Derek Ralston — August 2, 2008 @ 12:37 am
Great plugin! Installed v1.12 on my WP2.5.1 and it worked first time.
Would be even cooler if:
a) there was an option to have 2 colour choices for the text (1 for tags, another for categories);
b) more than 1 cloud could be added to the sidebar.
But hey, it’s brilliant as it is! Thank you
Comment by BG — August 2, 2008 @ 1:47 am
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
Comment by baron — August 2, 2008 @ 2:24 am
Hi,
Thanks you for your contribution to the Wordpress community. I am running WP 2.6 and downloaded the latest version of Cumulus. All seems to be working tops. I have done a short and fun write up on my blog today (see address above) using your plugin as an example of both the versatility and power of WP.
Onya mate!!
R
Comment by Robert@PNG — August 2, 2008 @ 2:25 am
Hosting a plugin on worpdress.org is new to me, and for the first day or so it was on there, the plugin had an extra folder around it. This would cause the automatic upgrade feature to fail and made installation more complicated than it should be.
I’ve since gotten the plugin to download properly. If you’re having trouble getting it running, please delete the plugin from your blog entirely, download it again from wordpress.org and do a fresh install.
I made no functional changes in version 1.12, so if 1.11 worked for you, 1.12 should too.
Comment by Roy — August 2, 2008 @ 8:26 am
TNX!!! this is amazing… even i have tags and category widgets already on the site, i’ve decided to add your stuff on my site too, because it’s simply great…
tnx…
best!
Comment by lomodeedee — August 2, 2008 @ 9:37 am
thanks for your great tools,it’s so cool!
Comment by adam — August 3, 2008 @ 10:04 am
nice tag cloud! Would you release a original source of swf file, i.e, fla file?
I want to use it on Korean tags, but embedded font does not support any Korean characters.
Comment by 智熏 — August 5, 2008 @ 9:16 am
Hi 智熏. Please see this post for more info: http://www.roytanck.com/2008/08/04/how-to-add-more-characters-to-wp-cumulus/ .
Comment by Roy — August 5, 2008 @ 9:20 am
Hey Roy,
I recently checked back on the latest version of WP-Cumulus and just found out that you fixed the “mouse out of movie” problem.
Thank you for your great work!
Comment by Jay — August 7, 2008 @ 10:26 am
Hi Jay. That was my main reason for moving to Actionscript 3. Under AS3, Flash finally has proper mouse exit detection. Jay!
Comment by Roy — August 7, 2008 @ 10:34 am
the plugin dont working with cirillyc languages (ukrainian, russian)
Comment by Bohdan — August 7, 2008 @ 11:59 am
Hi Bohdan. Please see the comment by Flector above for a translated version.
Comment by Roy — August 7, 2008 @ 12:07 pm
Excellent plugin!
There are sometimes problems with tags being superimposed, and one solution to that would be to support a:hover so that pointing at a tag changed its color.
Another possible solution would be to have tags of different sizes rotate at different speeds, so that overlap was less likely. But I’d really like to be able to change the color of tags on hover.
Comment by Bodhipaksa — August 8, 2008 @ 5:31 pm
@Bodhipaksa: There’s an option in the plugin’s options panel to distribute the tags evenly over the sphere. This will make them overlap less and increase clickability.
Color changes are a little harder to accomplish and yield mediocre results because of issues with depth sorting.
Comment by Roy — August 9, 2008 @ 12:52 pm
Hi WebMaster…
so good this Plugin,but i realy want to use Japanese[Kanji] version…but i dont have programing technic…
some japanes WP community people,and me.we hope and waiting for relace u’r JP verthion soon….
Comment by BH — August 11, 2008 @ 6:14 pm
Just a quick thankyou for a great little plugin. Got it up and running smoothly at http://www.emarketerstoolbox.co.uk
Popped it in a Categories page of it’s own with an option for a “normal” Categories page for people who don’t like it.
Thanks once again
Comment by Toby — August 11, 2008 @ 11:01 pm
Uso el Cumulus en mi website, estoy muy contento con el, es muy vistoso pero me gustaria editar el SWF y agregarle un fondo o algo asi, es posible conseguir el archivo fuente?
Comment by Lost Tigres — August 12, 2008 @ 12:44 am
Hola perdido Tigres. El archivo fuente está disponible de http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/download/
(If this isn’t Spanish, blame Google Translate
)
Comment by Roy — August 12, 2008 @ 8:33 am
The tag library looks really really cool and I was interesting to understand if there is a version that works with Liferay.
Comment by Tackle — August 15, 2008 @ 10:50 am
Hi Tackle. I’d never even heard of liferay before today, so no, there isn’t a version of WP-Cumulus for Liferay as far as I’m aware of. You’re completely welcome to give it a try though.
Comment by Roy — August 15, 2008 @ 11:55 am
Hi, thanks for the fantastic plugin, it gives a much more professional feel to any website!
But…is it possible to get it to work for page tags and not just post tags? Sorry if this is explained elsewhere, but I havent been able to find anything either way.
Cheers!
Comment by Darren — August 18, 2008 @ 12:15 am
Hi Darren. I’m not quite sure what you mean by “page tags”. This plugin was built to use WordPress’ built-in tagging system. Currently, you can’t add tags to pages.
Comment by Roy — August 18, 2008 @ 8:24 am
Thanks for the suggestion about using the option for even distribution of tags over the surface of the sphere. That helped a lot.
Comment by Bodhipaksa — August 18, 2008 @ 12:16 pm
I godly thank you for this plugin, this is what I searched for a long time, I could exactly use it on my site perfectly, THANKS A LOT!!
Comment by yo — August 20, 2008 @ 9:10 pm
Roy. Great plugin. Simply love it.
Once question, does it impose a limit of how many tags it uses depending on the size of it?
I have it on my site at (from memory) 200×200. Looks great, but I have noticed that it doesn’t seem to show all the tags I have. It’s not a major concern, I’d just rather know that it’s a feature, rather than me doing somethng wrong?
Anyway, great work.
Comment by Kerry Emerson — August 21, 2008 @ 1:35 am
Hi Kerry. Thanks. Wordpress’ default is to show the 45 most-used tags, not all of them. The plugin has an option to override this, but increasing the number would probably overcrowd the sphere.
Comment by Roy — August 21, 2008 @ 8:55 am
thanks bro…
Comment by Badot Inside — September 2, 2008 @ 6:51 am
ı am using at http://www.youtubegir.us
Comment by Emre — September 5, 2008 @ 10:03 am
Turkish character problems !
Fix pls …
Comment by Lusnika — September 6, 2008 @ 4:11 pm
Hi Lusnika. You can actually fix this yourself. It’s not possible (or at least plausible) for me to do versions for every single language out there.
Comment by Roy — September 6, 2008 @ 7:11 pm
@Roy
wiht FLash CS3 open error
Error Picture:
http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/2282/errorxl7.jpg
Comment by Lusnika — September 6, 2008 @ 10:48 pm
Hi Lusnika. It looks like you’re trying to open the swf file in Flash. You should get the fla source file as described in my blog post. Good luck.
Comment by Roy — September 7, 2008 @ 8:35 am
Hi Roy, I wish use your SphereTagCloud just to screen some words but without linking. Do you think I can use your Devlopment Version ?
thx.
Comment by romk — September 8, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
Hi Romk. If you know your way around flash, you should have no trouble removing the links.
Comment by Roy — September 8, 2008 @ 7:03 pm
Hi Roy, thx for your answer. Just a question, where do you change in AS the place of the words on the sphere. I wanted them all over the shere but in the initial status the place beetween words are not equal. I hope you understant.
Comment by romk — September 8, 2008 @ 10:52 pm
hi, your plugin is great. but.. what about UTF-8? I’d like to use your plugin, but in my my language there are words with some fancy letters like čšáíúô etc. and it just strips that and than the tags have words without meaning. I believe it’s not that difficult to repair it. Thank you.
Comment by marcello — September 10, 2008 @ 9:06 am
Hi Marcello. It actually is quite difficult. In order to smoothly animate text in Flash you need to put the entire font in the movie. If it would have been possible (it’s not) to embed the entire utf-8 range into a single swf, the resulting file would be huge.
That’s why I wrote a tutorial about adding the characters for your language: http://www.roytanck.com/2008/08/04/how-to-add-more-characters-to-wp-cumulus/
Comment by Roy — September 10, 2008 @ 3:43 pm
Just trying to use the WP-CUMULUS, but it’s acting a bit strange…
I have 11 categories, and have chosen to distibute evenly. However, only 10 categories show up. I then merged two categories so I have 10, but now only 9 show up. Seems to be a random 9 each time (no set problematic category).
Any ideas?
Comment by Oli — September 17, 2008 @ 5:20 pm
upgraded from 1.12 to 1.14.
then it showed no tags anymore. Quickly changed back to version 1.12
now everything works again….
Comment by impulse — September 17, 2008 @ 6:50 pm
@Oli: Do you have version 1.14 (released today)? It specifically addresses the issue you’re referring to.
@Impulse: You could try disabling 1.12 before upgrading. Also, I’ve seen a few cases where re-downloading the plugin and uploading the new copy helped with similar issues.
Comment by Roy — September 17, 2008 @ 8:54 pm
Hey guys! If tag cloud module not working on IE7 try to disable wordress lightbox plugin!! I have that problem, but no all work good!! Thanks to author!!
Comment by FunLife — September 18, 2008 @ 1:20 pm
Hi,
had the same problem with the IE and disabled now lightbox and it works great, but I resp. my blog can´t live without lightbox. Does anyone here have another solution. I really love cumulus and would much like to implement it in my page.
Comment by Christoph — September 18, 2008 @ 9:45 pm
I have change the option but the flash target havent change size?
I used:
Edited:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
//initially set the options
function wp_cumulus_install () {
$newoptions = get_option(’wpcumulus_options’);
$newoptions['width'] = ‘300′;
$newoptions['height'] = ‘225′;
$newoptions['tcolor'] = ‘333333′;
$newoptions['bgcolor'] = ‘ffffff’;
$newoptions['speed'] = ‘100′;
$newoptions['trans'] = ‘false’;
$newoptions['distr'] = ‘false’;
$newoptions['args'] = ”;
$newoptions['mode'] = ‘tags’;
add_option(’wpcumulus_options’, $newoptions);
// widget options
$widgetoptions = get_option(’wpcumulus_widget’);
$newoptions['width'] = ‘160′;
$newoptions['height'] = ‘160′;
$newoptions['tcolor'] = ‘333333′;
$newoptions['bgcolor'] = ‘ffffff’;
$newoptions['speed'] = ‘100′;
$newoptions['trans'] = ‘true’;
$newoptions['distr'] = ‘false’;
$newoptions['args'] = ”;
$newoptions['mode'] = ‘tags’;
add_option(’wpcumulus_widget’, $newoptions);
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Help me please
Check: http://aresvn.com/wp
Special thanks!
Comment by X-Jerry — September 19, 2008 @ 7:06 am
hi,
i actually activate the plugins of yours! but it seems didn’t work for me always blank on my widget i’ved tried the instruction above but still not working can you help me with this? very much appreciated..
Comment by aeon — September 19, 2008 @ 7:50 am
@X-Jerry: What are you trying to achieve? You can set the display size in the options screen and in the widget’s settings panel.
@Aeon: Please check your site for markup errors using validator.w3.org. There seem to be a bunch of nasty ones in your page, and they’re probably causing Cumulus to fail.
Comment by Roy — September 19, 2008 @ 10:37 am
Sr Roy. I mean I used ur 2nd option in:”Add the following code anywhere in your theme to display the cloud. This can be used to add WP Cumulus to your sidebar, although it may not actually be wide enough in many cases to keep the tags readable.”
I used the code in my footer. It showed and i edited wp-cumulus/wp-cumulus.php as
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
//initially set the options
function wp_cumulus_install () {
$newoptions = get_option(’wpcumulus_options’);
$newoptions['width'] = ‘300′;
$newoptions['height'] = ‘225′;
$newoptions['tcolor'] = ‘333333′;
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
but the width still 550 and the height’s 375.
You can check here: http://aresvn.com/wp
Please help me, this plugin so great and enjoyable!
Comment by X-Jerry — September 19, 2008 @ 4:20 pm
I used the widget but this option can not be display into my theme (some collum has been hide) so i must use code. I just want the width, height right as edited. Thanks bro.
Comment by X-Jerry — September 19, 2008 @ 4:23 pm
@X-Jerry: The function you’re editing is used to set the default values upon install. Once installed that bit of code is not called again, and editing it has no effect.
You should go to the settings->WP-Cumulus screen in WordPress and edit the values found there. No need to edit the plugin in any way.
Comment by Roy — September 19, 2008 @ 7:31 pm
Oh noob, thanks you
Comment by X-Jerry — September 19, 2008 @ 7:59 pm
It does not work…
It just fine works with my theme on local machine, but when upload on server it sais it requeres flash player 9.0 og higher.
I tewsted on several computers.
What can I do?
Comment by ivan — September 20, 2008 @ 9:43 pm
WP-Cumulus is a truly original idea.
Thanks
Comment by Ted — September 21, 2008 @ 10:31 pm
I have used the plugin in the sidebar on most of my blogs. On some themes I only get a white box, nothing else. See below.
http://carolinacoastretirement.com/
Comment by Nikko — September 22, 2008 @ 4:32 am
Hi Nikko. The most probable cause for this is that your page has some markup errors. See http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcarolinacoastretirement.com%2F . Fixing those will almost certainly make WP-Cumulus work without issues.
Comment by Roy — September 23, 2008 @ 8:45 am
Hello there,
I chose automatic upgrade of the plugin, and now an overwhelming majority of tags have disappeared from the cloud!
What do I have to do?
Thank you!
adil
Comment by Adil Nurmakov — September 23, 2008 @ 9:13 pm
Hi Adil. I see a large number of tags on your blog. Are you still having this issue? You might want to double-check the plugin’s settings.
Comment by Roy — September 24, 2008 @ 11:00 am
Roy,
Super, Super, Super plugin. Love it. Works great. Now I would like to filter one category from now showing on the cloud. How can I do that? It is a top level name but I want the lower level names to appear.
thanks.
Comment by ray — September 25, 2008 @ 4:03 am
Please add full utf-8 support. e.g Turkish.. i can’t write “keşif”, it shows “keif”
Comment by Gürkan Gür — September 26, 2008 @ 1:28 pm
I’m putting the code on the template to appear in 2 places, I’m putting at the top and at the bottom, but it only shows the top one…
the bottom one, says that i don’t have flash installed :/
Can you make it, so that i can have two on the theme?
Comment by ORiOn — September 27, 2008 @ 12:37 am
Hi, this is an amazing plugin, but I dont know why it doesnt work win Internet Explorer in my site… when it begins to load this plugin stops everything.
Any idea what is happening?
Comment by Daniel — September 29, 2008 @ 7:19 am
Hi Daniel. Please check you page for errors using http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.anzueto.com%2F . If you manage to fix the issues displayed here Cumulus will almost certainly come alive.
Comment by Roy — September 30, 2008 @ 10:15 am
Great work! Just love it.
Question : can Cumulus move by itself, without rolling the mouse over it ? It would be more eye catchy, don’t you think ?
Many thanks
Comment by Tristan Jacquel — September 30, 2008 @ 2:33 pm
Hi tristan. Actually, making it stop when the mouse wasn’t over it was the single most requested feature for the first couple of versions. Sure, it catches your eyes, but it does so all the time. Indefinitely
.
Comment by Roy — September 30, 2008 @ 3:50 pm
It works like a charm. Great work. I absolutely no issues in using the plugin.
Comment by Mobileoss — October 7, 2008 @ 4:57 am
Is development version updated?
Comment by guest — October 10, 2008 @ 7:46 pm
@guest: The development version is usually identical to the last release, except it includes the sources for the flash movie.
Comment by Roy — October 11, 2008 @ 7:03 pm
Thanks for that great PLugin,
One question – I have a right oriantated sidebar. How can I move the Flash Film some pixels to the left?
Comment by rafael — October 13, 2008 @ 7:42 pm
I am having trouble displaying the widget when using .
It says it requires Flash 9 but it worked fine using the [WP-CUMULUS] tag in a post? Any suggestions? Thanks
Comment by Gary — October 14, 2008 @ 3:30 am
Duh. The last post didn’t display the the php tag. That is the method I am having trouble with.
php wp_cumulus_insert();
Comment by Gary — October 14, 2008 @ 3:32 am
@Rafael: I’ve taken a look at your site, and there was no easy trick to do this by means of css. You could maken the movie ‘more landscape’ in terms of aspect, so the right and left parts arent actually used by tags. But given how narrow your sidebar is it would make the tags very small. Other solutions would require you to hack the plugin and add an additional element to it I guess.
(it does look as if your movie size is set to a width the sidebar can’t accommodate, so you might need to make it smaller anyway)
@Gary: please check you blog using validator.w3.org. there are a few markup errors there, which could interfere with WP-Cumulus.
Comment by Roy — October 14, 2008 @ 8:19 am
Thanks for the Answer! Can you maybe send me the .fla, so I can move the action part from the Flash a little to left:) Would be great!
Comment by rafael — October 14, 2008 @ 11:09 am
@Rafael: The sources are available from wordpress.org (look for the development version), but there’s a little more to it than moving stuff around, The movie centers the sphere automatically though scripting, so you’ll need to add an offset to that script.
Comment by Roy — October 14, 2008 @ 6:39 pm
Hello there,
I was wondering whether there was a way to make your plugin display the categories created by WP-DownloadManger written by Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan? http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/
Cheers
Dan
Comment by Dan — October 19, 2008 @ 6:43 pm
Hi Dan. I’m pretty sure it can be done, but quite frankly I don’t think I’ll have a go at it. I’m sticking with core functionality, but there’s nothing keeping you from downloading the source files and attempting this yourself.
Comment by Roy — October 21, 2008 @ 7:38 am
in my web i got a problem about it. ur flash doesnt work. what is wrong? could youu visit my web? click my nick
Comment by geveze — October 24, 2008 @ 11:56 pm
Hi Roy,
Many users have asked how to make the flash cloud show tags in Chinese. You said your font (ariel) does not have Chinese characters, and the size of embedding Chinese would be too big.
Are you sure you have to embed a few thousand of Chinese characters? Can I designate a Chinese font for WP-Cumulus and make it show Chinese tags?
Comment by thinkweird — October 25, 2008 @ 3:36 am
sry but i dont understand you. how can i fix that problem?
Comment by geveze — October 25, 2008 @ 11:20 am
I just want to thank you for this beautiful plugin. I intend to use it soon.
Comment by Amgad Suliman — October 25, 2008 @ 12:04 pm
Hi
Plugin is great but I have a turkish character problem . They dont show up . How can I fix it ? thanks
Comment by gurcan — October 26, 2008 @ 11:10 am
Hi Roy,
~Love the plugin and have tried to include it in my blog, only to receive the “…Flash 9 or Better…” display. I have flash 10, java script has not been disabled. My host provider said they had encountered this before, and could fix the problem, but were not able to do so. Any advice?
Thanks so much.
Comment by patrick — October 26, 2008 @ 5:32 pm
I just did download the new Flashplayer, and now it dont seem to work anymore, it says “WP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by Roy Tanck requires Flash Player 9 or better.”
But i still works with the older flashplayer????
(IE problem)
Comment by Jens Larsen — October 26, 2008 @ 7:02 pm
@Jens, Patrick: I’ve not been able to test the plugin with Flash 10. I’ll look into this asap.
@Geveze: I tried to take a look, but your blog appears to be offline.
@Thinkweird: You can add any and all characters you like. A typical latin set of glyphs (500 or so) adds 30 kilobytes to the file’s size. Adding the entire Chinese character set will add far more. When I try to embed Chinese, no extra glyphs are added, probably because I’m using a UK version of vista. Please do try and report back though.
Comment by Roy — October 26, 2008 @ 7:22 pm
hello, I really woould like to make your plug in work on the aside of my blog as a categorieswidget but it will not work on a K2 theme with wordpress 2.6.3
I’d really appreciate your help, tried on a post as well without success.
Comment by LILAC — October 27, 2008 @ 4:00 am
Hi.
Two questions.
I would add the target (<a target=”_parent” …) option for my links. Is it possible?
I would use in my site, which is not WP, your tagcloud.swf file and changing a little your wp-cumulus.php! Is it possible?
Many thanks
Comment by gall — October 27, 2008 @ 9:40 am
@Lilac: Have you tried fixing the markup errors on your site? Please see validator.w3.org.
Gall; You’ll need to download the development version and edit the Tag.as. Change _self with _parent and recompile the movie. There are several posts that could help you here : http://www.roytanck.com/tag/wp-cumulus/
Comment by Roy — October 27, 2008 @ 7:22 pm
~hello again Roy,
In addition to having Flash 10, I also receive an error on the page of “SWFObject is undefined” I ran validator.w3 on the site and found errors, many of which mention “flash ‘target’ attributes.” I do not know what to do with that information. I appreciate any advice you might have. My host provider washed their hands of the issue and wordpress is covered up. Thanks again.
-patrick
Comment by patrick — October 27, 2008 @ 9:25 pm
Wow, that’s what I call a bunch of comments!
I have been using your plugin for quite a while now, and I just thought “What about introducing parameters to the function wp_cumulus_insert(), like height, width, tag color etc.?”
At the moment, the parameters are predefined within the plugin file. I would like them to be variable (especially b/c I am a non-widget-user).
Keep up the good work!
Comment by Marco Luthe — October 30, 2008 @ 6:03 pm
after update to 1.16 no flash movie playin, just grey screen. back to 1.15, everything works fine …
probs in the update?
Comment by ondamaris — November 1, 2008 @ 8:49 am
I still have no idea what you changed at 1.15 and the 1.16 version, as they are not working for me. I use 1.14 which works, the rest just show white empy space. php4 wordpress 2.6
Comment by impulse — November 5, 2008 @ 4:20 pm
This a a very dynamic Plugin. Thank you:)
Comment by Irel — November 6, 2008 @ 10:14 am
ş ı ğ and other turkish letters can not be display
can you fix it?
Comment by nonick — November 6, 2008 @ 11:26 pm
Hi Roy
Thanx for beautiful piece of flash.
Downloaded , installed – works perfectly ..except colors… had to recompile to make them work …
However nice it is – there where some options missing …
So I’ve made few changes …
here is the example: http://zzz.ostap.nl:3344/index.php
and source code is here : http://zzz.ostap.nl:3344/flash_source.zip
This is the first time I’m working with flash …so please don’t mind my coding …
anyway – this is the list of what’s been added …
//################################################
each tag has 2 states now …
1 – selected / unselected … (specified by passed variable)
2 – active/passive …(mouse in/out)
for each state – there are colors :
//unselected: passive colors + gradient
color_NOT_SELECTED_PASSIVE_1
color_NOT_SELECTED_PASSIVE_2
//unselected: active colors + gradient (mouse inside)
color_NOT_SELECTED_ACTIVE_1
color_NOT_SELECTED_ACTIVE_2
//active: selected colors + gradient (mouse inside) (gradient is RADIAL) …
colorBG_NOT_SELECTED_ACTIVE_1
colorBG_NOT_SELECTED_ACTIVE_2
//background active: – selected colors + gradient (mouse inside)
colorBG_NOT_SELECTED_ACTIVE_ALPHA_1
colorBG_NOT_SELECTED_ACTIVE_ALPHA_2
//selected: passive colors + gradient
color_SELECTED_PASSIVE_1
color_SELECTED_PASSIVE_2
//selected: passive colors + gradient (mouse inside)
color_SELECTED_ACTIVE_1
color_SELECTED_ACTIVE_2
//selected: active colors + gradient (mouse inside) (gradient is RADIAL)…
colorBG_SELECTED_ACTIVE_1
colorBG_SELECTED_ACTIVE_2
colorBG_SELECTED_ACTIVE_ALPHA_1
colorBG_SELECTED_ACTIVE_ALPHA_2
//selected tag rounded rectangle corners angle… (in pixels of circle radius)
rect_angle
//selected tag index…(zero based)
selected_tag
Comment by Ostap — November 8, 2008 @ 4:09 am
Cumulus seems to be conflicting with another flv embedded in my sidebar. The embedded flv wo’nt load. Cumulus uses swfobject 1.14… we’re thinking perhaps there is some kind of conflict with swfobject 2.1? Any ideas?
Comment by John Dickinson — November 8, 2008 @ 10:41 pm
I get an error on IE, were the page will not load..
??
Comment by TheFrosty — November 12, 2008 @ 4:33 am
@TheFrosty: Your blog doesn’t look so good in Google Chrome also (part of the sidebar is missing). Please take a look at http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fthefrosty.com%2F . Errors like these will really mess with WP-Cumulus, especially if there are 100+ of them.
Comment by Roy — November 12, 2008 @ 9:35 am
Thanks for plugin.
Comment by Otomasyon — November 20, 2008 @ 8:38 pm
This is really cool Roy, I think it helps the Tag Cloud than hinder it, I often find tag clouds just too messy for a site but this puts a whole new perspective on it.
Keep up the good work
Comment by SLoB — November 21, 2008 @ 8:11 pm
Thank you for this fantastic WP-plugin.
Now it would really be something to have the opportunity to SHOW ALL THE POSTS IN A CUMULUS CLOUD!!! Would it be possible and has it been done? It would be a great way to have a quick look at the posts e.g in WP movie review forums.
Comment by Matti — November 24, 2008 @ 6:41 pm
i can get the plugin to work but it breaks my seesmic plugin for video commenting and i cannot understand why. i think its css or flash object related.
any ideas?
Comment by paulos72 — November 25, 2008 @ 3:33 pm
I’d love to see your sphere combined with something like Cayra so that you could jump from sphere to sphere and follow the nodes of a time based mindmap. Organizational advantages are quickly discovered when conversations and meetings can be adequately documented. If your flash could be integrated and then the actionscript pointed sources of the user’s choosing, or Cayra internally… then other flash can (video snippets of the meeting etc.) and subsections of the mindmap can be navigated easily.
I’d use the feaux 3d of resizing image icons to make the mindmap appear to wind into the future, but an actual 3d should be pretty easy to do java because they are simple nodes.
I’m trying to learn enough Processing.org to make this thing myself. Of course, I’m code challenged.
omdesign
Comment by omdesign — November 25, 2008 @ 5:07 pm
Those having trouble with Turkish characters may want to look at http://www.mehmet.com/2008/11/28/wordpress-cumulus-eklentisi/.
I have modified the flash file to include the glyphs from the extended Latin character set which solves the problem with Turkish characters not being displayed properly.
Comment by Mehmet — November 28, 2008 @ 11:05 am
Can you tell me where you make the link between tcolor and a link?
I see that tcolor is used for some links in different color. Where you assign a color with a link?
Thank you.
Comment by Andrei — November 29, 2008 @ 9:57 am
hi! i publish your plugin into my site. and i use this plug in. thank you!
Comment by kaisercrazy — November 30, 2008 @ 9:26 pm
What a great plugin! Install was flawless. I love it!
Comment by Leanne Boyd — December 2, 2008 @ 7:09 pm
Thanks Roy,
WP-Cummulus – This is a coolest Plug in, and I already use it in my blog. I love it!
Comment by Blogging Society — December 6, 2008 @ 1:21 am
I just installed wp-cumulus on my blog, but it always crashes IE 7 as soon as you click on any tag. If you use the standard “Tags” item it works fine. Not sure where ir why this is failing.
Comment by Steve — December 6, 2008 @ 2:01 am
Hello there. I’m using your plugin for a while now and i’m loving it and my guests too!
Unfortunatly i have a ploblem. From yesterday the new tags don’t show off at cumulus. I have 110 tags right now. In cumulus appear the tags since the 99. Is there maybe a limitation up to 100 tags or what? If there is a such limitation could i disable it?(the limitation). I’m looking forward for your answer, thanks!
Comment by RioSif — December 6, 2008 @ 7:31 pm
Hi. Great Plugin but same problem as RioSif (except I don’t have more than 99 tags) : the new tags aren’t diplayed in the clouds (I install WP-cumulus recently).
Thanks if you should help.
Comment by dbourrion — December 8, 2008 @ 8:16 am
Buenas amigo, esta excelente esta creación, felicidades, ya lo veo en muchos sitios.
Comment by Moctezuma — December 10, 2008 @ 6:30 am
hei roy! thank for the plugin….. very nice and cute!
Comment by joomlacube — December 10, 2008 @ 4:13 pm
I’m using 1.17 and two of my categories aren’t being displayed. It’s the same two catgegories every time but there appears to be no particular reason why they’re chosen not to be displayed. I have 16 categories I want shown overall, but only 14 displayed. I’m not displaying tags at all.
Can anyone help please?
Comment by Nigel — December 10, 2008 @ 10:04 pm
Hi!
Q: Supported WP 2.7?..
Comment by Alex — December 12, 2008 @ 9:21 am
@Alex: I haven’t had time to test this, but there’s no reason it shouldn’t.
Comment by Roy — December 12, 2008 @ 1:51 pm
Hi Roy,
I really like your WP cumulus for wordpress. It looks really cool. I have only one problems with displaying the categories and the tags in the cumulus. My blog is a private blog, which means that each post is private and not visible for the public. With logging into my blog automatically two new pages are diplayed which are normally hidden. On the first page all posts are displayed, on the second I like to show the WP Cumulus. But the cloud is empty. The reason is that all posts are private and so the categories and tags not usable for WP Cumulus. Do you think it would be easily possible to enhance the plugin so that with loggin in to the blog automatically also all tags for the specfic user level are shown in the cloud. If the user is not logged in the clould should be empty. That’s exactly how the WP search is working. If the user is logged out the result is zero if there are only private posts. With logging in the search result is visible for the specific user level. That’s exactly the functionlity for WP cumulus which would make it perfect for blogs which are not public. BTW: I’m using “Post Levels 1.1.1″ for organizing the user levels.
I would be really appreciateif you could give me a short reply if such an enhancement would be possible in near future?
Thanks in advance,
Marcel
Comment by Marcel — December 14, 2008 @ 5:02 pm
Finaly i figured out the solution of some tags displayed wasn’t displayed at cumulus. It’s a wordpress limitation. To fix that do this:
Edit the file category-template.php:
Go to wp-includes, open that file, go to line 554, find the number 45 which is the limit of tags and change it to whatever you want.
That’s it! You are done!
BB
Comment by RioSif — December 16, 2008 @ 3:09 am
This is fan-darn-tastic! Thank you.
Comment by Philip — December 17, 2008 @ 2:17 am
WP Cumulus is a cool plugin for wordpress. Many many thanks!
You can see my cumulus working on http://www.mamama.nl/365days.
Greets, Mariëlle
Comment by Marielle — December 18, 2008 @ 4:20 pm
Class.
Comment by Dmitriy — December 18, 2008 @ 6:30 pm
I’m risking being way off-topic here but i’ll ask anyway and aim for your good will.
I’m looking for a plug-in like this, with the same sort of user interaction, but instead of words i need it to be a 3D form (that i already have).
I have zero experience with code but am doing the foot-work as far as i can so one of my nice (but busy) friends can easily put it in my web page for me .
any ideas, links or suggestions are more then welcome.
many thanks in advance and happy holidays.
Comment by Edan — December 22, 2008 @ 5:09 pm
well tks i have my labels but i need them in blue how i can have them in blue, and i need more height cause is too much labels i have on my blog come on and see it and please help me with this tks a lot
http://negociosempleodinero.blogspot.com visit my site.
Comment by ricky — December 23, 2008 @ 8:58 pm
what a wonderful plugin! i have used it in my blog for a long time.
i am wondering if you could give out the .po file, so that i can make a translation.
Comment by sfox — December 28, 2008 @ 5:20 pm
Check out my site at http://steve.heyvan.com and you can see the WP Cumulus widget at the top of the second column. As soon as you click on any item, it will attempt to take you to the page, but then the browser (Internet Explorer 7) will crash in mshtml.dll (see below). I see a lot of other blogs with this widget — even some that use the same theme that I do.
Any ideas on what can be causing this?
===================================
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: iexplore.exe
Application Version: 7.0.6001.18000
Application Timestamp: 47918f11
Fault Module Name: mshtml.dll
Fault Module Version: 7.0.6001.18183
Fault Module Timestamp: 4941fb55
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00097c16
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Read our privacy statement:
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Comment by Steve — December 29, 2008 @ 12:43 am
BTW: I am using Adobe Flash 10. Also, whenever I right-click on the flash movie and then click on “About”, the browser locks up. Perhaps this is all related to a bug in Flash? Anyone know?
Comment by Steve — December 29, 2008 @ 12:46 am
Hi Steve. My guess is that you should fix this: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://steve.heyvan.com/&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0 . If that doesn’t help, the problem might be with either Flash or IE not being installed or working properly, but 99% of all issues with WP-Cumulus have to do with XML parsing errors in the page. That being said, a browser crash is new to me.
I use Flash 10 too, and test all my work in IE7.
Comment by Roy — December 29, 2008 @ 9:33 am
Is it possible to have a specific category ignored? “Uncategorized” is the biggest thing in my cloud, and I’d love to make that go away.
Thanks,
J
Comment by Jordan — December 30, 2008 @ 1:17 pm
Hi… very nice… but… only wordpress…? THANKS…!
( sorry, I don´t speak english…)
Comment by nilberto borges — December 30, 2008 @ 5:40 pm
Hi, would love to see a standards based version of this: say with Javascript and CSS. Is that possible?
Comment by Christiaan — December 30, 2008 @ 5:54 pm
Hey Guys..
I just upgraded the plugin from within the WP admin area and it stopped working. I manually downloaded the latest version again and uploaded using http://FTP.. and it worked like a charm..
Comment by Syed Abbas — January 1, 2009 @ 6:44 am
@Christiaan: I seriously doubt whether DHTML will scale fonts as nicely as Flash does (in fact I know it doesn’t). So while probably possible, it will probably not look very nice. Let’s hope Adobe opens up Flash some more.
@Niberto: It’s been ported to all sorts of CMS solutions. Most of them are listed in the FAQ on wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus .
Comment by Roy — January 3, 2009 @ 8:00 pm
oh damn! i cant change the background color or set up it to transparency.. :/ help?^^
Comment by Patrick L. — January 4, 2009 @ 1:57 pm
@Patrick: Are you changing the settings in the right place? The widgets has a set of its own, available in the widgets screen when you click open the widget…
Comment by Roy — January 5, 2009 @ 7:57 pm
Hai Roy thks for tag. I use to my blog. Succes for u ^^
Comment by Dominikus Juju — January 6, 2009 @ 1:36 pm
Hey there,
firstly thank you for this great plugin! It’s working great right out of the box.
I just have two major questions about it:
1. Is it possible to display tags only from a certain category?
2. Is it possible to change any parameters of the flashfile when used not as a sidebar widget?
I tried to edit the parameters in the plugin editor but the flash animation wouldn’t change it’s aspects (grey background, white font etc.)
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Best Wishes
sdk
Comment by sdk — January 7, 2009 @ 4:19 pm
thanks for your great stuff cheers.
Comment by nrmlfx — January 7, 2009 @ 7:15 pm
@sdk: I don’t think that WP even has a category filter for tags, so no, sorry. There a settings page under “settings->wp cumulus”. You can change all the values there.
Comment by Roy — January 8, 2009 @ 11:15 am
Hi, I’ve been using this one my blogspot account and Ive just recently moved to wp.. I can’t seem to run the cumulus widget there. Is there an issue with the new version (2.7)?
Comment by nikkita — January 8, 2009 @ 1:59 pm
amazing plug in can i get in to the blogspot how???
Comment by dobby — January 9, 2009 @ 2:42 pm
Hello there,
thank you for your quick reply! So you said that there is no possibility to have a category filter for tags. But is it possible to use WP cumulus only for certain categories & subcategories, not tags.
Would it be possible to multiply the module (clones) and use each instance for displaying subcategories of just one category, e.g. having 4 main categories:
Cumulus 1 – > exludes categories 2,3 & 4
Cumulus 2 – > exludes categories 1, 3 & 4
etc.
Each instance of cumulus would then just show the sub-categories of each category.
Do you think that is somehow achievable?
Best Wishes
sdk
Comment by sdk — January 9, 2009 @ 7:15 pm
@sdk: You’ll need to hack the plugin a bit to do that, but I guess it’s possible. If you add a parameter to the function that creates the flash and pass the categories though that to the WP function that gets the categories it shouldn’t be too hard to do.
Comment by Roy — January 9, 2009 @ 8:51 pm
Is it possible to make it search engine friendly ?
Comment by cekay — January 10, 2009 @ 3:05 am
This is very, very cool – thank you!.
Two questions please –
1) Is there any way to reduce the considerable whitespace around the cloud? I have taken apart my css and dug into your code but cannot find what causes all of the excess space around the cloud. It pushes my links “below the fold” – and I checked some of the samples here and see that no matter how small, the proportional white space is really big.
2) What is controlling the content and format of the link results? I would like both pages and posts to show up, and only pages show up now. I also would like only the post titles to show up. Can you advise where to make such changes?
*One note – I am on 2.6+, but even my default search only shows posts, and I have yet to figure out how to get it to show pages, as well, since that apparently was default for WP search since 2.5
THANKS!
Comment by dmitcha — January 11, 2009 @ 4:36 am
Hi, I have installed the plug-in firefox works smoothly, but when you open my blog in IE an error that says “Internet Explorer can not open the site” Operation canceled “: (
potfavor can help me with this?
Thanks
Comment by Andrés — January 11, 2009 @ 10:29 am
hello again,
at last i found this plug-in,
thanks for sharing with ours..
this plug is free right? lol
Comment by ray — January 12, 2009 @ 8:51 am
Hi Roy,
Thanks for this great plugin!
I wonder how difficult would be to also display post titles there. Im designing a blog that wont have many posts and would be great to display them in the cloud with the tags and categories.
Is this possible?
Comment by Bohoe — January 13, 2009 @ 1:25 pm
@Bohoe: I personally feel that displaying (long) titles in Cumulus doesn’t look very good. I don;t think I’ll be adding this as a feature, but you can definitely have a go at it yourself if you like. It shouldn’t be too hard to convert the plugin to display posts.
Comment by Roy — January 14, 2009 @ 11:19 am
Dear Roy,
thank you for your hint! With your help i was trying out to to achieve what i described in my previous comments, namely to use wp-cumulus as navigation instead of a tag cloud/ category cloud.
So far i could just manage to include or exclude certain categories or showing only child categories of a certain category by using the following parameters in
“wp_list_categories”
&include=XXX
&exclude=XXX
&child_of=XXX
There is a parameter called current_category, but i somehow couldn’t make it work.
There are several approaches which seem promising, maybe you could point out which one might be the best to go for:
Imagine I have 3 categories (1,2 & 3)
————————————————————————————–
Solution 1: if else clause (show only child pages of a certain category
————————————————————————————–
—————————————————————————————–
Solution 2 (look for current category)
—————————————————————————————–
—————————————————————————————–
Solution 3: tripling the module e.g. cumulus1, cumulus2, cumulus2
My coding skills are limited, but i really tried my best to find a solution to this.
Maybe you have some time and temper to help me out with this.
I think that could be a wonderful gain for all if WP cumulus could be used as a menu.
Best Wishes
sdk
Comment by sdk — January 14, 2009 @ 1:43 pm
Hi Roy,
On a second thought, I think it is ok as it is and although the post titles wont be too large, better leave it as it is, cause it looks great!
One thing, which setting do you have in your cloud at the homepage to make it so round?
Comment by Bohoe — January 15, 2009 @ 1:11 pm
@Bohoe: I’m using 336 * 220px, with tags only (no categories). Slightly landscape usually works best, and I usually write very short tags.
Comment by Roy — January 15, 2009 @ 1:16 pm
very good plugin
Comment by dino — January 17, 2009 @ 9:27 pm
this is super cool tag cloud … now i using it …. hiakhiak ….
cheer ~
Comment by rambochai — January 22, 2009 @ 9:53 am
A… ma… zing!
absolutely brilliant plugin, beautiful, fast and functional!
Thanks!
Comment by dSyre — January 23, 2009 @ 11:44 am
WP-Cumulus seems to be ignoring the colors i set in the options for it. I have the background set to brown (663300) and the tag color gradients a series of yellows (FFEE11, option gradient color is FF8D13). The highlight color is blue. However, in display all the tags are gray and the background is white. Transparent mode is off. Any idea?
Comment by Eric Ehlers — January 25, 2009 @ 6:47 pm
Hi Eric. Are you editing the right set of settings? The ones under ’settings->wp cumulus’ don’t affect the widget, which has its own set (on design->widgets).
Comment by Roy — January 26, 2009 @ 4:23 pm
well, at first I felt sheepish for not noticing that, but having set the options in Appearance/Widgets there’s no change in the cloud.
Comment by Eric Ehlers — January 26, 2009 @ 9:54 pm
I did some more experimentation (adding and removing the hash mark, saving in various ways), and it appears to be working the way it should now. No idea what was going on, but either the Magical Fairy of Code has waved her want or whatever character I had in the wrong place has been corrected. It looks good. Thanks for writing this!
Comment by Eric Ehlers — January 26, 2009 @ 11:57 pm
Well Roy.. a fantastic piece of work.. if there is a 3D image cloud.. that would be gr8…
Comment by Jasim — January 30, 2009 @ 5:00 am
hey
awesome plugin..
i have a slight problem though. it shows the same tags for all the post and all the pages, even though i have given different tags. it shows only one set throughout t he blog.
i’m sure the solution is very simple but for the life of me i cant figure it out.
cheers
ananda
Comment by rohan — January 30, 2009 @ 9:05 am
Hi Rohan. WP-Cumulus is a global tag cloud (like the default tag cloud widget that comes with WP). It’s supposed to always show the same tags (up to 45 of them) on any page or post.
Comment by Roy — January 30, 2009 @ 10:31 am
Hey,
I grabbed this plugin the other day for something that i’m working on and i ran into a little, well actually a big snag. You cant put ampersands anywhere in the text. I’m trying to use the flash movie directly from my own custom html/javascript. Since you cant use ampersands you not only can you not have tags like ‘Hot & Cold’ but you cant have links that have more than one argument because that causes it to die too.
One other thing that would have been nice for me, but is a far smaller issue, is the ability to add click events to the anchor tags. Without that and without the ability to have multiple request params for my links it’s kind of limiting.
Comment by Trevis — February 1, 2009 @ 10:16 am
Please, can you explain me how to add “/#” in url because it is not working with my ajax template.
When i click on tag i got first case below. But i need to change that normal url:
http://www.somesite.com/tag/letssay/
into:
http://www.somesite.com/#/tag/letssay/
Thanks!!!
Comment by Dark — February 7, 2009 @ 5:23 pm
Thanks for this nice plugin! I’m using it to my blog Planet Automobile.
Comment by Drobon — February 9, 2009 @ 8:58 am
@Dark Hmm… I’m not sure how to fix this. You could try doing a replace in the plugin, but it would require some hacking.
Comment by Roy — February 10, 2009 @ 12:06 pm
hello, I tried to do the installation on my website (www.eric-roset.ch/blog) and it did not work.. It was just written please update flash 9.
So I put my blog on an other website http://www.mesemrom.org/blog and it works very nice, The problem is that I would like to pu my blog on my website and not on an other.
I dont understand because the two blogs are exactly the same with the same plugin, theme wordpress 2.7 etc.
Can it be beacuase of the version of mysql? because eric-roset uses phpmyadmin 2.11.9.3
and mysql 5.0.45 and mesemrom mysql 5.0.62 and phpMyAdmin – 2.10.0-rc1.
thanks for advance for answering and sorry for my stupid english
Comment by oana — February 11, 2009 @ 2:04 am
@oana: Both of your blogs appear to have markup errors in them. The one where the plugin fails has a few more. Please try correcting them, chances are WP-Cumulus will work once they’ve been ironed out.
Comment by Roy — February 11, 2009 @ 10:39 am
hello and hanks for the answer. because i’m not good in php language (not only in enlish !) I would like to know what are markup fails errors and how I can see where there are to correct them, is there any erors detector? how did you find them.
thanks
Comment by oana — February 11, 2009 @ 11:14 am
sorry I forge the end:
did you think at http://validator.w3.org?
Comment by oana — February 11, 2009 @ 11:17 am
@oana: validator.w3.org is the best place to start. Because of the way it’s built, WP-Cumulus has trouble displaying the flash movie on pages with XML parsing errors. In some cases it will display in one browser when it won’t in another. The best thing is to get rid of any HTML errors. The validator’s output should help you find them and even offers tip on how to fix them.
Comment by Roy — February 11, 2009 @ 3:21 pm
hello again!
validation’s ok now but it still does’nt work if I put
but if i copy paste the code i can find by clic rignt show code source on my “entertainment page”
looks like a very big quantity of caracters (don’t wont to put it here) it works…strange
looks like the php of my eric-roset.ch’site can’t work the plugin…
other ideas?
thanks
Comment by oana — February 12, 2009 @ 12:36 am
@oana: I assume you’ve currently disabled the plugin? Could you activate it so I can have a look? Please email me when you do.
Comment by Roy — February 12, 2009 @ 11:25 am
I did it right now
thanks
Comment by oana — February 12, 2009 @ 11:37 am
@oana: I’m getting 403 errors when trying to load WP-Cumulus’ files directly (such as http://www.eric-roset.ch/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-cumulus/swfobject.js). It looks like the javascript file can’t be loaded, causing the plugin to fail. Could you check permissions and possible your htaccess file?
Comment by Roy — February 12, 2009 @ 12:01 pm
ok nice! here is the problem I’m sure you foud it.
now how can I check permissions and htaccess….
do I have to do something myself or to call my “serveur, hébergeur?”
thanks for patience
Comment by oana — February 12, 2009 @ 12:04 pm
YOUPIII!
It worked!
instead of loading by the wordpress panel (what i did tousand times)
i just did it by fillezilla and it works
it seems like when i use the wp panel i don’t have all the rights…
thanks a lot for the support it’s excellent
Comment by oana — February 12, 2009 @ 12:30 pm
Hi, great plugin!
I’d like to know if there’s any way to have this work with ajaxwp so it’ll load only the page contents and not the whole page.
If not are you planning to incorporate that feature soon?
Best regards,
MACC
Comment by MACC — February 13, 2009 @ 4:17 am
@MACC: I’m not planning to support that. Like WordPress’ regular tag cloud, WP-Cumulus simply calls the url for a tag. That causes the page to reload. I’m simply using the standard tag cloud and display it using Flash. As it is now I can barely find any info on ajaxwp…
Comment by Roy — February 13, 2009 @ 10:19 am
hi, how do you change the aspect of the flash movie? can’t seem to find it in the code.
Comment by kiat — February 14, 2009 @ 2:26 pm
@kiat: The WordPress plugin has two set of controls. One under ‘Appearance->Widgets’ (open the widget to see the controls) and one under ‘Settings->WP Cumulus”. If you’re using the widget you’ll need the first one, if not the second.
As for the Flash movie itself, that was made to fit into whatever space you assign it, so it has no width and height settings as such. So if you’re using the movie outside of WordPress, you can specify the dimensions in the Flash embed code.
Comment by Roy — February 14, 2009 @ 8:22 pm
Hey Roy,
Is there any chance of this being built for Prestashop 1.1 anytime soon. I think it could be a major addition to this web cart.
Comment by Lindsey — February 17, 2009 @ 9:03 pm
Hi Lindsey. I have no plans to port this to Prestashop, but I welcome anyone who wants to give it a go.
Comment by Roy — February 18, 2009 @ 9:30 am
A very very cool widget indeed you’ve got there roy. Love it so much.
However i just realized that i got slight problem with this. Turned out that my page couldn’t be loaded in IE (including IE7) whenever i turned the cumulus on.
Got the “IE cannot open the internet site yada yada yada. Operation aborted” message.
and then the page get unloaded.
I think it has something to do with this issue,
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927917/
Yea i know. it’s stupid microsoft fault for making such an idiot browser.
Would really appreciate it if you can make some workaround for this though.
Cheers.
Comment by YanYan — February 21, 2009 @ 4:15 am
@YanYan: From what I gather from the MS support page, this issue seems to be caused swfobject. I’ve used that succesfully in loads of sites, in all browsers. Are you sure the page has no markup errors that complicate things?
Comment by Roy — February 21, 2009 @ 9:24 am
hmmmh. now that you mention it. there’s a chance.
it’s quite a bit messy there.
oh well, i’ll try to look into the theme again. anyway thanks a lot roy.
Comment by YanYan — February 21, 2009 @ 2:05 pm
i don’t know why the w3 validator shows all the markup error.
after a lookaround, i found the theme’s just completely fine.
*most of the error are caused by w3 validator mislook something, which is actually there.
the only problem is it’s set to automatically wrap the widget in div id to preserve the css.
which, based from the MS support page, i think is the root of the problem.
oh anywaaay. i give up for now. even ie8 stopped to load the page after failed executing the script.
i guess my best bet now is just for ie to be completely extinct from all PC in the world. LOL.
anyway thanks Roy for the great plugin! cheers.
Comment by YanYan — February 21, 2009 @ 3:13 pm
ah. another question Roy.
is it possible to insert this cumulus but not as a widget?
like inserting the code directly to the sidebar. ‘yeah the old fashioned way before age of widget’
if it possible, which code should i put?
Comment by YanYan — February 21, 2009 @ 3:22 pm
@YanYan: Sometimes a single error can cause the entire page to be interpreted wrongly, both by browsers and the validator. But in all fairness, I’ve never seen the w3 validator show errors when there weren’t any. Most of the ones in your blog are benign, but the XML parsing errors shown are quite serious. They seem to be caused by a single closing li-tag.
And yes. There are three ways to place Cumulus into your blog. There’s the widget, the shorttag and a good old PHP function call. Details are here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/installation/
Comment by Roy — February 21, 2009 @ 9:20 pm
Hi, Roy,
You’re the man!
BTW, I found a little trick to make WP Cumulus work with Traditional Chinese,
and the swf file is only 43 kb in my case.
I posted a tutorial on my blog: http://www.mr-fu.net/2009/02/3dwp-cumulusblogger.html
since this is a tutorial for Traditional Chinese version, so it was written in Tra-Chinese.
I hope this can help other people who want to use WP Cumulus in their language.
Technically, this method also works on Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and other languages.
Cheers!
Mr. Fu
Comment by Mr. Fu — February 22, 2009 @ 3:47 pm
I love your tag cloud-you guys amaze me with code and what can be done-I am pretty green to blogging and website stuff and wanted to know about the Tag Cloud. I do not have many tags in my right column but when I click on a tag it does not have a box around it like yours. When you mouse over mine it basically disappears.
Any suggestions?
Thanks again for WP Cumulus!
Comment by Dick — February 22, 2009 @ 7:00 pm
Hi Dick,
I t looks like the tag highlight color is set to white. because the background is also white, this means it’ll ‘disappear’. Please try setting that color to something else in the plugin or widget options panel.
Comment by Roy — February 22, 2009 @ 8:03 pm
Hi Mr. Fu. As you can probably imagine, I can make heads nor tails of that tutorial. I’d really love to know what you did, so I can possibly apply the same changes to the WordPress version.
Comment by Roy — February 22, 2009 @ 8:12 pm
Thanks Roy-I will do as suggested and let you know!
Comment by Dick — February 22, 2009 @ 8:19 pm
Chnaged it to a grey and it works great-Thanks again!
Comment by Dick — February 22, 2009 @ 8:24 pm
I upgraded my WP blog and added this plugin. It works, but I note that it doesn’t have the pleasing interaction that the sample on this page has. It spins for a few seconds and stops. Mousing over it doesn’t start it spinning again. Are there added parameters that need specifying to get it working better, or is the version on this page different than the plugin downloaded from WP?
Comment by Michael — February 23, 2009 @ 7:43 am
Hello ,
first of all thanks for this wonderfull app.
I wanted to let you know that i makde an extension for ezpublish available here :
http://ez.no/developer/contribs/applications/ezcumulus
Regard,
Comment by jean-yves — February 23, 2009 @ 11:18 am
@Michael: It appears to be working fine right now? The only possible cause I can think of for this behaviour is having the speed setting set to zero.
Comment by Roy — February 23, 2009 @ 11:47 am
I have a problem with the Russian language (the language, which used the Cyrillic alphabet instead latynitsy). How can I solve this problem?
Comment by damien — February 24, 2009 @ 9:08 pm
@Damien: Please see the FAQ at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/faq/
Comment by Roy — February 25, 2009 @ 3:39 pm
Hi.
I just updated u’r plugin up to 1.19 version and i saw that it don’t understand Russian lenguage… =\
Comment by FelexS — February 28, 2009 @ 8:16 am
Here’s another one, totally xml driven, so it is not restricted to wordpress alone : http://www.artviper.net/xml-flash-tag-cloud.php
Comment by Frank — March 4, 2009 @ 4:18 pm
Hi Frank. I’ll email this to you as well as posting it here.
I’m not sure I’m very happy with you selling copies of a modified version of WP-Cumulus. And then there’s the legal ramifications.
I just decompiled your movie, and found lots of very familiar code in there. I assume you are aware that WP-Cumulus is open source, and that the attached GPL license demands that you make the source code for your project available? You are also required to allow users to freely redistribute your movie and source code (so basically, your first client could give it away for free to anyone they like). Because your movie is a work derived from a GPL licensed piece of software, you too are bound by the GPL license.
More info is here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
Comment by Roy — March 4, 2009 @ 11:55 pm
P.S. WP-Cumulus isn’t limited to WordPress either. In fact, many people have ported it to other systems, and there’s a tutorial on how to use it in plain HTML
Comment by Roy — March 5, 2009 @ 12:01 am
Hi Roy,
thanks for your mail. I am very astonished about what you found and I must agree to your information. See, I just told our flash designer, go and program a similar thing which is open for any input. You see me very surprised that there are many parts of your original code in it, which in fact changes many things. I hope it is okay if we are now giving it away for free, and of course this will have some internal consequences.
I apologize for this incident, and hope this clears out any discrepancies that arose.
best regards
Frank
Comment by Frank — March 5, 2009 @ 7:22 am
Roy, wonderful work. Trying to integrate it into my RW site.
Can anyone point me to the (X)html version?
Many thanks
David
Comment by David DelMonte — March 5, 2009 @ 5:19 pm
@David: The html version is here.
Comment by Roy — March 5, 2009 @ 7:17 pm
Hi, Roy,
Sorry for reply you so late,
the task in http://www.mr-fu.net/2009/02/3dwp-cumulusblogger.html includes:
1. Add an actionscript method for converting unicode and utf-8 for URLs contains non-latin characters
(this part is posted on http://www.mr-fu.net/2009/02/url-encoding-in-actionscript3-utf-8.html). This is needed on blogspot because blogspot convert Chinese title into UTF-8 URL for each post. I’m not sure whether wordpress using UTF-8 for URL encoding or not.
2. while doing the step 4 of your tutorial on http://www.roytanck.com/2008/08/04/how-to-add-more-characters-to-wp-cumulus/ , you must specify characters you’ve used in your blog, so that the output swf file could be in a limited size. To do that, just fill out the column “Include these characters” with characters you need.
I hope this help, cheers !
Comment by Mr. Fu — March 7, 2009 @ 12:14 pm
Hi guys, my tag cloud looks great.
i would like another one on a different page, but with a different size. the problem is that i only have one options page for the one tag cloud to display.
can anyone help pls
Comment by Clayton — March 9, 2009 @ 12:30 pm
@Clayton: There are two sets of controls, one for the widget and one for the shorttag version. I’m considering adding parameters in the shorttag, but that’ll take a while I think.
Comment by Roy — March 9, 2009 @ 5:01 pm
Hello Roy,
WP-Cumulus is a really really nice plugin!! Love it! And as i can see in many blogs, I’m not the only one thinking that!!!!;-)
I’ve seen in your post and comments we can’t actually hide a categorie, but I’d like to know if there if a “simple” way to do it. I really need to hide 1 categorie (this is 1 categorie I use for each post!;-)
Do you think it’s possible? I don’t really know about php…I’m just starting…but I know how to copy-paste code into some files and try to understand!;-)
If you need more details, don’t hesitate to let me know!
Thanks a lot!
Gaëtan
Comment by GaetanWP — March 11, 2009 @ 5:33 pm
@Gaëtan: If you open up the plugin and look for the call to ‘wp_list_categories’ you’ll that I already pass it a couple of parameters. As long as you don’t change mine, you can add parameters. See here for more info (look for ‘exclude’).
Comment by Roy — March 11, 2009 @ 7:37 pm
Hello,
this tag cloud is superb. i use it at all my 5 blogs.
But I have a problem: when I try to insert, a t a wordpress blog, two instances of the tag cloud, only one appears.
Can anyone say how can I indsert, in the same blog, two instance of the cumulus tag cloud?
Thank you very much!
Comment by luisj — March 13, 2009 @ 9:18 pm
Hi Luisj. Have you upgraded to 1.20 yet? It should fix this and allow any number of tag clouds on a single page (although your readers probably won’t want ten of them eating up cpu time).
In older versions you can use the widget and the regular version at the same time, but not two shortcode versions.
Comment by Roy — March 13, 2009 @ 11:07 pm
hello!
i like you work wery much…
im planing touse it on page that will be in croatian language.
i have test page locally on my pc (on xamp) and somehow i cant get croatian special characters..
is that have smt to do with compiling a font .swf file with special characters cos everything else works normally?
if does, can you please compile .swf file that ’ships’ along with plugin cos it seems that it cant be oppened inFlash
thx!
Comment by mario — March 15, 2009 @ 10:38 am
and yes, if its problem with a font having those special characters u can email me or at least say witch font is it and maybe i already have one with some characters added or i can add them to that font file
thx!
Comment by mario — March 15, 2009 @ 11:03 am
Hey,
Your plug-in looks amazing with wp, thanks for all your work on it.
=)
Comment by apathy — March 15, 2009 @ 1:29 pm
Great Plugin, I Love it!!
Comment by Nandang — March 15, 2009 @ 7:25 pm
@Roy: THANKS!! I tried this w-end, and it works perfectly, Thanks a lot for your advice!! Nice plugin, nice developper!!;-)
Gaëtan
Comment by GaetanWP — March 16, 2009 @ 2:59 pm
i like your work too and fyi , i’m using this plugin …
Comment by fazamania — March 16, 2009 @ 3:02 pm
can only use for wordpress ?
Comment by christopher — March 17, 2009 @ 5:27 am
very nice
thnx
Comment by Siemens Otomasyon — March 18, 2009 @ 3:45 pm
Experiencing big problems with IE recently, with FF working well. Will need to filter it for IE users until I understand what’s going on. Do you have any suggestion?
All versions updated.
Comment by Martin — March 20, 2009 @ 12:59 am
Hi Martin. Did you try the new compatibility mode? Your blog has a few nasty coding errors I’m afraid.
Comment by Roy — March 20, 2009 @ 10:09 am
Hello Roy!
I love this plugin very much..
im using it currently on latest WP version 2.7.1 and im using it on a theme with eastern european character set.
special characters are displaying normally on posts and pages but not within a latest Cumulus plugin.. (actually special characters are left over not changed with some unrecognizable characters)
is it possible 4 u to see what its all about with this issue latter on…
thx!
Comment by mario — March 23, 2009 @ 11:32 am
Hi Mario. Please see the FAQ for more info on language support.
Comment by Roy — March 23, 2009 @ 1:45 pm
thx roy!
i was in time where i didnt have enough time to read FAQ’s…
thx again!
it could be done!
bye!
Comment by mario — March 24, 2009 @ 2:20 pm
I had the same problem with wp-cumulus with IE6 and IE7 on my site.
I’ve found yesterday that wellknown script called ieupdate.js don’t like wp-cumulus.js.
The only way to make wp-cumulus.js work is to remove ieupdate.js from site.
I’ve done it and now w-cumulus works fine.
Question to author: is there any way to use both scripts without disabling one of them?
Comment by sx — March 25, 2009 @ 1:48 pm
@sx. I’d actually never heard of ‘ieupdate.js’ and there is no ‘wp-cumulus.js’. It seems that ’swfobject.js’ (a third party script I use in WP-Cumulus doesn’t like ‘ieupdate.js’. If that is the case, the new ‘compatibility mode’ in WP-Cumulus 1.20 should help. You can find it on the ’settings->wp cumulus’ page.
Comment by Roy — March 25, 2009 @ 4:16 pm
Hello. You can add special letters (ě, š, č, ř, ž, ú, ů, etc…) .
Měststká is better than Mstská
Sry for bad english
Comment by kazlik — March 28, 2009 @ 10:39 am
Hi, I’m also having trouble with the special characters from different charactes sets – like czech language (ě, š, č, ř, ž, ú, ů, etc…) and other slovan languages …
Is there any chance you will fix this?
Comment by magerio — March 28, 2009 @ 8:48 pm
@magerio: Please see the FAQ for this plugin at wordpress.org for more info on how to use it with different languages.
Comment by Roy — March 29, 2009 @ 8:52 pm
Hi,
I have bilingual site (polish/english) to flip between languages I use wordpress plugin called Language Switcher which works really well. I installed your plugin and it works like a charm except it does not have (yet) support for more then english language. I tried to set its tilte to [/lang_en]Popular tags[/lang_en][lang_pl]Popularne Tematy[/lang_pl] and all this text shows regardless of the chosen language.
Do you plan to upgrade wp-cumulus to offer support for the multi langual sites? It would be really nice if you could.
With the best regards,
MarkD:-)
PS
where are you from – what country in Eastern Europe?
Comment by Mark — March 29, 2009 @ 9:04 pm
Hi Mark. I’m actually in The Netherlands. You must’ve realized how that little intro is bogus, right? Flash as a technology has severe restrictions when working with text. There’s no true unicode support for any text that movies (except in version 10, which I will eventually migrate WP-Cumulus when the plugin has sufficiently become mainstream). You can add your language’s special characters by downloading the sources and following a tutorial on this blog.
Comment by Roy — March 30, 2009 @ 12:31 pm
Very impressive plugin, looks great, but it is problem with polish letters (ź, ż, ń, ś…), maybe in next version?
Comment by Photowork — March 31, 2009 @ 4:24 am
hello,
great plugin! i had a question. How do you add multiple tag parameters. I tried commas and various other things but couldnt do it. I wanted to make it so that:
number=50
smallest=20&largest=80
but i cant seem to get both to work at once
would appreciate some help. Again amazing plugin. Looks so cool
Comment by jo — March 31, 2009 @ 10:09 pm
@jo: You should put an ampersand between all parameters. Something like ‘number=10&smallest=8&largest=20′ should work.
Comment by Roy — April 1, 2009 @ 8:56 am
Could you make in the next version of the possibility to stretch “tag cloud” maximum width and height in% and px – on full screen.
Thx))
Comment by Maxim — April 6, 2009 @ 12:32 pm
This plugin is great! Not only for its fancy look but also for the intuitive way the user can look through your tags.
One question though:
I hace the cumulus as a widget placed in right sidebar. To fit the layout it is pretty small.
Is there a way to make the cumulus display more to the left? Like with .css parameters for positioning?
Regards/Peder
Comment by Peder — April 13, 2009 @ 10:58 pm
@Peder: I’m afraid the width of your sidebar will be a limiting factor as long as you keep it in there. The other two placement options (shortcode and template tag) would allow you to place it in posts or your theme instead, at any position you’d like. See the FAQ for more info.
Comment by Roy — April 14, 2009 @ 8:26 am
Hi RoyTanck
Thank for your plugin I like it. It worked great, but It could not show Vietnamese language correctly. Do you have some idea to fix it?
Thank you!
Comment by DanhNY — April 15, 2009 @ 11:03 pm
hi – love the cumulus – added it to my main sidebar – but don’t seem to have the option to add it to the post and page sidebars – no “add” button – why?
elaine
Comment by elaine merkus — April 17, 2009 @ 2:59 pm
He Elaine, it looks like you theme has uses different sidebars for different screen types. For widgets that you can only use once, this can be a problem. I’ll see if I can remove that restriction in the next update, but you’ll probably run into other widgets as well that have this behaviour.
Comment by Roy — April 17, 2009 @ 3:21 pm
hi – thanks for the very prompt reply – yes, there is a different sidebar for pages and posts – and I can’t put the sidebar login (meta) on these either – really annoying. I have thought of cutting and pasting the home sidebar html into post and page sidebar – but since Im not a developer in any way – Im affraid I mught totally muck everything up!
Comment by elaine merkus — April 17, 2009 @ 3:53 pm
Hello Roy,
I love the wdiget and I am tryong to import this in my site. it is a non- wordpress site. When I try and opne the swf file I cannot open it since it is protected. Would it be possible to get the FLA file? If not can I get some advice on how I can work with the swf, or if I am doing something wrong with the download?
Thanks,
Michael
Comment by MG — April 24, 2009 @ 5:07 am
Hi Michael. You can get the development version from wordpress.org.
Comment by Roy — April 24, 2009 @ 1:54 pm
Hello,
I try the cumulus plugin and I think I found a problem.
I start from the example and I tried to put several parameters in the url of a tag like that :
so.addVariable(”tagcloud”, “WordPress“);
Doing that the flash animation do not appears.
I also try to replace the “&” by “&” but it also doesn’t work.
How can I put several parameters in the url associated to a tag ?
Thank you very much
Comment by quincyj — April 24, 2009 @ 2:18 pm
Sorry my previous message is not well displayed.
I tried to put several parameters in a url associated to a tag separating each parameters by “&” or “& amp ;”, but in both cases, it doesn’t work. The flash animation is not well displayed. Is there a way to put several parameters in urls ?
Thank you
Comment by quincyj — April 24, 2009 @ 2:22 pm
@quincyj: You can urlencode the entire tagcloud to get around this problem, or just the ampersands.
Comment by Roy — April 24, 2009 @ 3:41 pm
Hello,
Sorry if this questions has been asked-is there a limit to the number of words/tags you can enter into your tag cloud?
Thanks,
Dick
Comment by Dick Berry — April 28, 2009 @ 7:38 pm
Hello Roy,
First of all thanks for this wonderful plugin, it’s quite a blog enhancement but I need a bit of help using it.
I placed the plugin in my footer area using the tag, and it works just fine but I can’t style it in any way (colors, width, background, etc.). Editing the wp-cumulus.php file doesn’t have an effect.
I can style the plugin just fine if I insert it into a post and add the width / height / background parameters into the tag, but I can’t put the same parameters in the tag.
Thank you for your time, I’m not sure it’s possible but if it were, it would be grate if I could set the plugin to have a dynamic width (be as wide as it’s container).
Comment by Radu Tanasescu — April 29, 2009 @ 2:04 pm
Seams wordpress cleaned the php code in my post
when I say “the tag” I mean the PHP tag used to insert the plugin anywhere in the template.
Comment by Radu Tanasescu — April 29, 2009 @ 2:06 pm
There should be a way to do
wp_cumulus_insert(’width=300&height=500′)
because Im not using widgets.
Comment by phonethics — May 4, 2009 @ 12:02 pm
Hi there,
Great plugin! Would it be possible to display WP’s standard Tag Cloud in absence of Flash on the client?
Comment by Dae Punt — May 4, 2009 @ 12:57 pm
@phonethics: Are you using the shortcode version? It allows you to change the dimensions by passing parameters.
@Dae: That’s not very difficult to do.
Comment by Roy — May 4, 2009 @ 1:42 pm
Fantastic work, thanks for share!
Comment by Blogszok — May 5, 2009 @ 1:29 am
Hello roy,
I think this is mesmorizing! so much so I have tried to use it on my site that i’m building in flash. I am not using WP, I appreciate that you will be busy and is outside of what you developed it for but I will still ask! :- ) I have a little problem, I’m trying to import the tagcloud.swf generated from the .fla into my main movie and keep getting this error…
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at com.roytanck.wpcumulus::TagCloud()
I know that there is nothing wrong with the .swf because it works on its own, It only happens when I import it into my main movie. to import I use this code in the timeline of my main .fla…
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.display.Loader;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.ProgressEvent;
function startLoad()
{
var mLoader:Loader = new Loader();
var mRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(”tagcloud.swf”);
mLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onCompleteHandler);
mLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, onProgressHandler);
mLoader.load(mRequest);
}
As I am new to as3 any guidance would be appreciated, I’m thinking it is something to do with the main stage not ready for the external movie but tbh I don’t know…
Many Thanks, Paul
Comment by paul hove — May 7, 2009 @ 1:32 am
@Paul. Unfortunately, the ‘null object reference’ is a very generic error message. My guess is that it has to do with the flashvars. There might not be a loaderInfo object to get them from. Does your parent movie load other, simpler movies without issues?
Comment by Roy — May 7, 2009 @ 10:54 am
Hello Roy,
Thanks for your reply, When you say basic do you mean with out any associated .as files, self contained?
If so yes they load no problem. This Tagcloud.swf is the only element that has associated .as files. I am sorry but I just noticed my code did not paste properly! must have been tired…
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.display.Loader;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.ProgressEvent;
function startLoad()
{
var mLoader:Loader = new Loader();
var mRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(”tagcloud.swf”);
mLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onCompleteHandler);
mLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, onProgressHandler);
mLoader.load(mRequest);
}
function onCompleteHandler(loadEvent:Event)
{
addChild(loadEvent.currentTarget.content);
}
function onProgressHandler(mProgress:ProgressEvent)
{
var percent:Number = mProgress.bytesLoaded/mProgress.bytesTotal;
trace(percent);
}
startLoad();
Many Thanks, Paul
Comment by paul hove — May 7, 2009 @ 10:00 pm
Hi Paul. If regular movies load OK there must be something inside Cumulus causing the issue. You realize that .as files are rolled (compiled) into the swf and do not need to be on the server, right? Apparently, my movie doesn’t like not being root. It wasn’t designed to be loaded into other movies, but other than possible flashvar trouble I can’t see why it wouldn’t. I’lll look into this.
UPDATE: I found the problems
. If you open up TagCloud.as there are two bits you need to change in the TagCloud() function. First you’ll need to comment out the three lines that deal with swfStage. Then find ‘baseUrl’ and replace the three lines that assemble this url with var
baseURL:String = "";. Once I did this I had a working Tag Cloud.These changes will kill scaling and setting the baseUrl (the place where the swf is located) might also cause trouble later on. You’ll have to find alternative ways to deal with these things in your project I’m afraid. Making the loader movie 500 x 500px in size is probably a good start. Set the frame rate for that movie to 31 if you can.
Comment by Roy — May 8, 2009 @ 10:07 am
Hello Roy,
Firstly Thank you for taking the time not only to look at, but to actually offer resolve to the issue I had as I appreciate that you originally intended it to be a WP Widget. I do understand that the .as is compiled within the published .swf,
This I know is where null errors can then occur if the .swf are imported into another movie as the stage is usually referenced within the external.swf before the main stage is ready to accept it (something along those lines!) As my AS3 knowledge is minimal it is the resolve I have problems with but i’m getting there slowly.
I did exactly what you said and it works very well so I’m very happy :- ))
I can carry on with the rest of my project now! Once again Thank you very much!!
Comment by paul hove — May 8, 2009 @ 10:02 pm
Thanks for this gorgeous plugin but unfortunately it doesn’t work for UTF-8 words… If it’s working only for english tags it needs a major upgrade i think….
thanks anyway:)
Comment by imei — May 10, 2009 @ 6:54 am
Is there any way to get this plugin to work with ampersands? I want to be able to create tags like “A&E” or “H&R Block”, but it puts it in the url as is, which breaks everything after the ampersand.
Comment by Robby Colvin — May 20, 2009 @ 9:12 pm
Hi Robby, have you tried escaping the ampersands with
& amp;(without the space) or the urlencoded version%26?Comment by Roy — May 21, 2009 @ 8:44 am
I’m encoding all of the URLs, as they show up like this in the output between the script tags:
tags += “http%3A%2F%2Fwww.offmadisonave.com%2Fblog%3Ftag%3DA%26E”
However, when I click on the link in the swf, it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to.
Comment by Robby Colvin — May 21, 2009 @ 5:19 pm
Thank you for an amazing tag cloud!
I wonder if there is a way to make to capitalize the characters.
Keep on the good work!
Comment by Tante — May 23, 2009 @ 2:25 am
@Tante: You could add a .toUpperCase() thingy to the Flash movie (Tag.as) if you’re familiar with Actionscript. There’s probably also a PHP way to do it, but the trick would be to not change the XML markup, just the tags. The Flash route is easier I think.
Comment by Roy — May 23, 2009 @ 11:07 am
Come to say Thank U
Comment by kwedo — May 26, 2009 @ 4:54 pm
Hi, I tried it on WordPress 2.7.1 but It doesn’t work
Please help me…
Comment by Adeel Ayub — May 28, 2009 @ 5:54 am
Hi Adeel. Your page has some XML parsing errors in it. Please try correcting these, or enable the ‘compatibility mode’ under Settings -> WP Cumulus.
Comment by Roy — May 28, 2009 @ 8:31 am
Hello Roy, thank you for a great plugin!
I use this plugin to display tags with non-latin characters (for this I get specific version of tagcloud.swf with included fonts for those characters) and they are displayed correctly. But those tags also have links with non-ascii characters in URL and they don’t work. When clicking on tags I explored that those urls are encoded in my system encoding (windows-1251) and then urlencoded, but in xml for tags I used UTF-8 encoding.
Someone already posted a fix to this issue in previous comment, can you include it in next release of wp-cumulus?
Comment by Bohdan — May 28, 2009 @ 2:38 pm
Ho Bohdan. I’ve added it to the to do list for 1.22. I’m pretty sure this doesn’t apply to WP, so I’ll have to make sure nothing breaks there.
Comment by Roy — May 28, 2009 @ 3:26 pm
HI! Please explain how can I add tags????? and Where ?
Comment by Al — May 28, 2009 @ 7:21 pm
You can add tags simply by adding to your post (there’s a field for them right underneath the main content).
Comment by Roy — May 28, 2009 @ 10:18 pm
Hi Roy,
Thanks for the wonderful plugin. It certainly adds more life to just a simple tag cloud on the WP blog. I just have one concern, I realized that Google is indexing every single page produced by the plugin, e.g. URL ending with something like …wp-cumulus/tagcloud.swf?r=8796668
I was afraid it may affect my SEO. I understand that the latest update has an option that say:
“Un-hides the regular HTML tag cloud that may appear for a second or so before it is replaced by the Flash one. Turn this on if SEO and/or non-flash users are a major concern for you. This option affects both the shortcode version and the widget.”
May i know what does the option do? What’s the implication of turning this option on?
Thanks for your help.
Janelle
Comment by Wholesale Denim Jeans — May 29, 2009 @ 6:26 pm
@Janelle: WP-Cumulus does not add any pages to your blog, not change urls. It takes the regular tag cloud and displays it differently. The random seed is in there to force the bowser to load the movie every time, which prevents issues with IE.
The new option removes a bit of CSS that hides the regular tag cloud. When a page containeing WP-Cumulus is loaded, the following things happen.
1. Until the page is fully loaded, alternate content is shown.
2. SWFObject (a clever javascript to embed Flash into pages replaces the alternate content with the flash movie.
3. If Flash or javascript are unavailable (like when a search engine stops by), the alternate content is not replaced.
The regular cloud is part of the alternate content. It can take a few seconds for step 2 to kick in, and I found that it looks better to not actually display it, because ‘nothing -> cumulus’ looks better than ‘regular cloud -> cumulus’. The reason I left it in there is because it’s not quite clear whether search engines process content hidden through CSS. By unhiding you’re making sure that will happen.
Comment by Roy — May 29, 2009 @ 7:55 pm
Hi Roy,
Thanks for the amazing plugin. I’ve placed on my site. But I’m unable to change the size of the whole. I’m not doing for font. On my site, the flash size appearing small. I’ve given various sizes to change the height and width through settings. But there is no change in live.
Please have a look at my site and suggest how can I do that, or what sizes I need to give. etc. I’ve tried with height: 1000 and width: 750 and height: 500 and width: 375 etc. But not worked out.
Please help me.
Thanks
Sandy
Comment by Sandy — June 2, 2009 @ 7:26 am
@sandy: There are two sets of settings. One for the widget (go to the widgets screen and open the WP-Cumulus widget) and one for the shortcode version (Settings -> WP Cumulus). Any chance you changed the wrong ones? It looks like you’re using the widget version.
Comment by Roy — June 2, 2009 @ 3:58 pm
Hey Roy,
I’ve modified settings through widgets and it worked out.
Thanks a lot for your continuous support by replying each comment and great work. Looking for more great plugins from you….
Cheers
Sandy
Comment by Sandy — June 3, 2009 @ 8:11 am
Hello Roy,
This widget is fabulous! thank you for sharing it.
I have the same suggesstion as some other users before me,
- Comment by erik stronks — April 27, 2008 @ 2:34 pm
- Comment by Dric — May 22, 2008 @ 9:49 am
Is there any solution to this problem by now? or a new version where this can be changed I have to say I’m using your widget in A Blogger Blogspot Blog not in WP.
Thank you in advanced Greetings
SJ
Comment by SerinaJane — June 4, 2009 @ 2:41 pm
Hi SJ. You can use the wp_tag_cloud parameters setting to limit the number of tags.
Comment by Roy — June 4, 2009 @ 9:16 pm
Wonderfull Plugin except it doesnt work perfectly with wp 2.8.
The settings I change in the widget menu arent saved.
Any fix for this?
Thanx In advance
Comment by Emrulez — June 12, 2009 @ 4:46 pm
Hi Emrulez. I’ve not had the chance to test Cumulus under WP 2.8. I’ll try and look into it asap, but I’m away from home for most of the weekend, so I can’t promise it’ll be this week.
EDIT: I checked, and the widget options are saved on all my blogs. Are you using the most recent version of the plugin? And (i hate to ask) are you sure you’re saving your changes on the widgets screen? That screen has changed quite a bit…
Comment by Roy Tanck — June 12, 2009 @ 6:09 pm
Dear Roy,
I have retried it again and now it does save the settings.
I did nothing different than before.
Thanx for your quick response
Emrulez
Comment by Emrulez — June 12, 2009 @ 8:02 pm
Roy, do you have a way of using Cumulus *without* SWObject, but with jQuery?
Comment by mark — June 15, 2009 @ 4:15 pm
@Mark: SWFObject and jQuery don’t bite, do they? Does jQuery handle proper Flash embedding? It would be possible to edit the plugin and change the way it embeds, but SWFObject is the de facto standard for this…
Comment by Roy — June 16, 2009 @ 11:24 am
Hi,
With WP2.8 new taxonomy, and ability to create and use custom tags, will it be possible in a newt version to use these registered customized taxonomy as entry for cumulus tagcloud?
Sat’
Comment by Sat' — June 22, 2009 @ 4:01 pm
Hi ‘Sat’. I have yet to look into 2.8’s new taxonomy features. It’ll probably be a while before I’ll be able to add in support for this.
Comment by Roy — June 22, 2009 @ 8:22 pm
Hi!
I have scratch: this plugin not work when tag`s wrote in Russian language
Are You planned make localisation?
Thank
Comment by GoodWin — June 23, 2009 @ 12:22 pm
Hi GoodWin. There’s a tutorial about this here, and I’m pretty sure someone keeps a Russian translation somewhere.
Comment by Roy — June 23, 2009 @ 3:55 pm
Thank You! I`m stupid!
Really easy! 
Comment by GoodWin — June 24, 2009 @ 6:55 am
Hello, is there a way to get this WP Cumulus rotate forever. Not sure if anyone else has asked or been mentioned on how to do this.
Many Thanks
Craig.E
Comment by Craig — June 25, 2009 @ 2:18 pm
Your plugin is really great, but i discovered a bug. If I switch the transprent mode to ON it is saved in the settings page but has no effect to the . I look’s like the setting isn’t loaded from the DB before building the .
Comment by Kau-Boy — June 25, 2009 @ 3:10 pm