WP-Cumulus for Blogger = Blogumus!

I would not have thought it to be possible, but Amanda has succeeded in porting WP-Cumulus to Blogger. She’s written a short tutorial on how to set it up, which is surprisingly easy to do. I haven’t used Blogger since 2003, and wouldn’t have known where to start. So thanks Amanda!

If you’re a Blogger user and you want to catch up with what’s been happening with the WordPress version, click here.

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Roy | September 2, 2008 | English, WordPress plugins |
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21 Comments

  1. If it works, this is great news.
    I’m going to try this as soon as possible on my blog, because I want a tag cloud, and WP-Cumulus looks so coooool !

    Comment by Stéfan — September 2, 2008 @ 4:56 pm

  2. Thanks for your Plugin,I am a Z-Blogger.

    Comment by River.Yin — September 3, 2008 @ 10:19 am

  3. Guys,
    This is awesome, can we set this up for movable type???
    PLEASE HELP ME DO SO…
    Thanks
    Saumil

    Comment by Saumil Bhavsar — September 8, 2008 @ 8:24 am

  4. Many thanks to you and Amanda! I have successfully added the tag cloud.

    Is it possible to have individual color per tag, instead of all having one color? If so how can I (for example using the color property in the style of perhaps) specify this?

    Thanks & Best Regards,
    Senaka

    Comment by Senaka — September 8, 2008 @ 11:13 pm

  5. sorry about the previous post… It should read…

    “Is it possible to have individual color per tag, instead of all having one color? If so how can I (for example using the color property in the style of <a> perhaps) specify this?”

    Thanks & Best Regards,
    Senaka

    Comment by Senaka — September 8, 2008 @ 11:15 pm

  6. Btw,

    One more thing. The ‘+’ marks in my labels vanish from the names seen in the cloud. For example, C, and C++ will be displayed in the same way. :)… Please check on this as well.

    Thanks,
    Senaka

    Comment by Senaka — September 9, 2008 @ 8:33 am

  7. Hi Senaka. WordPress does not let you specify a color for tags, so there’s little point to having colored tags. The colors would have to be random. Also, there would be sudden jumps in the animation, when one tag moves through another. Those are invisible as long as all tags have the same color.

    Unfortunately, Flash uses the ‘+’ sing in urlencoding, so I had to filter these out and replace them with spaces. I put a ‘look into’ note about this to my todo list.

    Comment by Roy — September 10, 2008 @ 3:53 pm

  8. Hi, it works great, but the only problem is that i have too many tags in my site, there is a way to the flash tag cloud only represents some tags and not all of them? Please write me soon to my mail, fernando_a_ribeiro@hotmail.com.
    Thanks

    Comment by Fernando — September 11, 2008 @ 2:40 pm

  9. Hi Fernando. That’s something you should contact Amanda about. The flash movie does not limit the tags. The WordPress plugin does (or rather, WordPress does so by default), but since you’re using Blogger Amanda is probably your best bet.

    Comment by Roy — September 11, 2008 @ 3:32 pm

  10. ive used it!!!!

    Comment by bighafidz — September 13, 2008 @ 4:58 am

  11. Hi Roy,

    I worked out the hack to make the ‘+’ marks appear, as well as another to make the tags having ‘/’ point to the proper URL. Many thanks, everything works fine. The need for colour was to have popular tags with one colour and less popular tags with another. It is like specifying a colour per tag, like the tag size for instance. :)..

    Btw, Fernando,

    You can reduce the number of tags that appear, based on how popular they are. I have seen people do that.

    Regards,
    Senaka

    Comment by Senaka — September 21, 2008 @ 12:02 am

  12. Hi! Can you help me to port WP-Cumulus on my page? I use TBDEV and i dont know how do that(((

    Зы Sorry for my English))0

    From Suberia with love))

    Comment by CatZ — October 8, 2008 @ 9:34 pm

  13. Roy, I’m from that Eastern European country and we want u back, baby! That nuclear fission thingie is passe, now blogger is where it’s at. How about playing for our team a little bit? :)

    Comment by zamolxis — October 12, 2008 @ 2:21 am

  14. I noticed that the plugin doesn’t handle some Eastern European characters, or accented vowels. Clicking on such a label results in an error. I’ve changed all my labels to strictly Latin alphabet but still, isn’t there a way this could be fixed? Thanx.

    Comment by zamolxis — October 12, 2008 @ 9:58 pm

  15. Hi,

    This is Sujit. I have my blog in MARATHI language ( one of the Indian langauges and for whcih UNICODE - UTF8 encoding is required.). I tried to use this for my blog, it works also. But labels in englsih are only shown properly. And labels in Marathi are shown as 2 or 3 dots.

    Can you help me ?

    Sujit
    ny.sujit@gmail.com

    Comment by Sujit — October 31, 2008 @ 5:32 am

  16. Roy
    I have too many labels. How can I solve the height of the swf? I’ve tried increasing height to 600 px but it didn’t change the appearance of the swf.
    Thanks!

    Comment by OliverX — November 16, 2008 @ 7:51 pm

  17. Hi OliverX. The size of the sphere is based upon the smallest dimension, so if you make it 600px wide but only 100px high the tags will still be tiny.

    Comment by Roy — November 16, 2008 @ 8:44 pm

  18. Thanks!!!
    I’ve understood. I’ll try another position in the blog design.

    Comment by OliverX — November 20, 2008 @ 3:25 pm

  19. Thanks for this tip…I am about to see exactly how it will impact my site…

    Comment by mikeH — November 27, 2008 @ 3:28 am

  20. Hey Roy,
    You are a very nice man. I want to use that in my blogs

    Comment by Ridhuan — December 30, 2008 @ 4:47 pm

  21. Thanks, I really like your creation :)

    Comment by sherrina — January 2, 2009 @ 6:05 am

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