How to use WP-Cumulus shortcodes

Contrary to what I originally thought when I released WP-Cumulus, it seems most people prefer to use it on their blog’s sidebar. I estimate that at least 80% of users use the widget. But the plugin still has two other ways to embed the movie into your blog, and version 1.20 greatly improves the most important of those. Shortcodes can be incredibly useful, and version 1.20 of my plugin now properly supports them.

Shortcodes

WordPress 2.5 introduced an API that allows us plugin creators to easily create square bracket ‘tags’ that users can type into blog posts and pages to trigger plugin output. WP-Cumulus has used something similar since day one, but the official shortcodes API allows for a lot more flexibility.

The most important change is that you can pass parameters. For Cumulus, this means you can override your default settings each time you embed a tag cloud into a post. Lets assume you’ve set up the non-widget version of the tag cloud to be 500 pixels wide. You can now use the following shortcode to display it at 300 pixels.

[wp-cumulus width="300"]

If you’d instead like a cloud with red tags and a transparent background, here’s the code for that:

[wp-cumulus tcolor="ff0000" tcolor2="ff0000" trans="true"]

Supported attributes

Here is a complete list of the attributes WP-Cumulus currently supports:

Attribute Used for Possible values Example
width Width of the tag cloud Number of pixels (positive integer) width=”300″
height Height of the tag cloud Number of pixels (positive integer) height=”240″
tcolor Tag color HEX color value without the ‘#’ prefix tcolor=”ffcc00″
tcolor2 Tag color for less important tags HEX color value without the ‘#’ prefix tcolor2=”cc9900″
hicolor Tag highlight color HEX color value without the ‘#’ prefix hicolor=”ffffff”
bgcolor Tag cloud background color HEX color value without the ‘#’ prefix bgcolor=”333333″
speed Rotation speed Precentage, higher means faster speed=”150″
trans Background transparency “true” or “false” trans=”true”
distr Even tag distributions along sphere “true” or “false” distr=”true”
args Argments to be passed to the ‘wp_tag_cloud’ function (experimental, use at own risk) URL encoded string args=”smallest=10″
mode Tag/Category mode “tags”, “cats” or “both” mode=”tags”

Default values

By using any of these attributes, you override the values entered under ‘Settings->WP Cumulus”. These serve as the defaults used when using the shortcode, so simply entering [wp-cumulus] into a post will result in a tag cloud with those settings. If you have only one cloud inside a post or page it’s probably best to change the main settings. The attributes listed above will allow you to have multiple clouds inside posts, all with different settings.

WordPress 2.5 and up

Please note that since the shortcodes API was introduced in WordPress 2.5, none of this will work on older versions. The new lowercase shortcodes replace the old [WP-CUMULUS] one. That still works for now, but is ‘deprecated’ for blogs running WP 2.5 or newer.

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Roy | March 11, 2009 | English, WordPress plugins | Comments (132)
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132 Comments

  1. WP-Cumulus v1.20 is still missing the “ı” and “İ” Turkish caracters…

    Comment by Izzy — March 12, 2009 @ 8:04 am

  2. Hi Izzy. Thanks for pointing that out. As it turns out I forgot to update the appropriate file. Major oops. I’m uploading the right one right now, so if you download the plugin again it should work.

    Comment by Roy — March 12, 2009 @ 10:12 am

  3. Hi Roy and thanks for your plugin. I just upgraded and now it’s not working. You can see it in my site. I even tried reactivating, reloading, resetting and all res, with no result. I would appreciate some help.

    Comment by Ximena Eduarda — March 12, 2009 @ 4:17 pm

  4. Thanks! Your plugin is very very special! So, please, I would like change font type. It`s possible? tnx 4 hlp.

    Comment by WMK — March 12, 2009 @ 9:07 pm

  5. Thanks for this very nice plug-in !

    Comment by luc legay — March 12, 2009 @ 10:06 pm

  6. Nice. This would make for and awsome organizational chart when one wants to show the interconnection of multiple groups. Is it possible to use this function with expandable boxes containing editable text? I am not a web designer, nor do I play one on TV. Just curious and stumbled upon this from the “Raw Milk” blog site. m-

    Comment by Michael — March 13, 2009 @ 4:14 am

  7. @Ximena: Looks like it’s working OK now? You might want to change the highlight color to something other than black though to make it stand out more.

    Comment by Roy — March 13, 2009 @ 1:42 pm

  8. Hi WMK. Yes you can change the font. Details are here.

    Comment by Roy — March 13, 2009 @ 1:44 pm

  9. Hi

    Is it possible to use this plugin outside of Wordpress e.g. in a Vb.Net .Net 2 Web App?

    Comment by Ian — March 13, 2009 @ 3:40 pm

  10. Hi found the link for that will have a look…

    Comment by Ian — March 13, 2009 @ 4:04 pm

  11. Link: WP-Cumulus: Una sfera in flash per le Tags | .:[ Byte Zone ]:.

  12. Not available for blogger??? :( I just love these gadgets

    Comment by mina — March 15, 2009 @ 4:01 pm

  13. @mina: Amanda keeps a Blogger port over at bloggerbuster.com

    Comment by Roy — March 16, 2009 @ 1:26 pm

  14. Hi! Is a very very nice plugin. But I think there’s a problem when you are selecting text outside the movie (the movie still rotate).

    Bye!!

    Comment by Guglie — March 16, 2009 @ 9:44 pm

  15. hi! i love this widget. Can this be used for non-wordpress site? or do you have any plug-ins that i can apply for social networking sites like Multiply.com?

    Comment by leah — March 18, 2009 @ 1:10 pm

  16. Hi Leah. I’ve written a post about that.

    Comment by Roy — March 18, 2009 @ 1:44 pm

  17. This is a cool plugin. Someone forward me this NY Times link http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/15/us/politics/20090115_HOPE.html which has a similar cloud. Is this a customized version of your code? If not, could your code be hacked to do this, point to a podcast or video or audio file?

    Thank you for a great plugin.

    Comment by Jim — March 18, 2009 @ 1:57 pm

  18. Hi Jim. That is a great page. I’d seen something similar before, and it’s definitely far more ambitious than my little tag cloud :)

    I’m pretty sure WP-Cumulus could serve as a basis from something like this, but since you’d be displaying radically different content, the 3D code would probably be the only thing left once you’d be done.

    Comment by Roy — March 18, 2009 @ 2:08 pm

  19. Maybe using the wp_list_categories parameters could somehow be used. I’ll have to ponder and maybe get a chance to experiment. And I just saw your flickr/picasa widget. Very cool!

    Comment by Jim — March 18, 2009 @ 2:47 pm

  20. can this be used in blogger site ?

    Comment by mei — March 19, 2009 @ 6:40 am

  21. @mei: Amanda over at http://www.bloggerbuster.com maintains a Blogger version called Blogumus.

    Comment by Roy — March 19, 2009 @ 9:10 am

  22. got it. thanks Roy!

    Comment by leah — March 21, 2009 @ 8:00 am

  23. Dear, such a beatuful post, i loved it, still am trying to understand how to make it workable on my site. I just installed the plugin and thats it. can u please make a video tutorial of this plugin in youtube.com?
    it will be very helpful. and if u made, please let me know as soon as possibe.
    thanks alooooooot

    Comment by Naqqash — March 21, 2009 @ 10:27 pm

  24. Hi Roy just getting back to thank you, I did not see your answer on the 13th., yes it is working now and tks for the advice

    Comment by Ximena Eduarda — March 21, 2009 @ 11:47 pm

  25. Hi Roy,

    thanks for this great widget.
    How can I make the widget stay in backround if an image gets opened? On my blog the widget stays in front of the picture. Is there a fix?

    Comment by bs_de — March 23, 2009 @ 12:29 pm

  26. Hi bs_de. You should try enabling the transparent background option. If that does not help there could be a great number of things happening. It depends on how your blog was built.

    Comment by Roy — March 23, 2009 @ 1:43 pm

  27. That’s it! Thank you very much!

    Comment by bs_de — March 23, 2009 @ 4:34 pm

  28. how can i download it?

    Comment by Kabitirtha koley — March 25, 2009 @ 5:38 am

  29. @Kabitirtha: It’s available from wordpress.org/extend/plugins

    Comment by Roy — March 25, 2009 @ 9:47 am

  30. Is it possible to install to a WP blog located on wordpress.com?

    Comment by Oscar — March 26, 2009 @ 1:53 pm

  31. Hi Oscar. I don’t think WordPress.com allows you to install plugins at all, do they? So I guess you’d have to convince them to add WP-Cumulus to the entire system…

    Comment by Roy — March 26, 2009 @ 3:24 pm

  32. Link: WP Cumulus 1.20 русская версия - 3D облако меток | RaZoR Blog

  33. Hello, i´d like to show tags for public and for private articles on my blog. Is this possible?

    Comment by marcel — March 27, 2009 @ 2:57 pm

  34. @Marcel: I don’t use private posts on my blog, but if wp_tag_cloud can display the tags for them, so can WP-Cumulus.

    Comment by Roy — March 27, 2009 @ 8:53 pm

  35. Link: Продвинутое анимированное облако тегов WP-Cumulus | rotorweb.ru | Проблемы и решения в Web-дизайне

  36. Thanks for this very nice plug-in & share it with us :D

    Comment by ery — March 31, 2009 @ 8:35 pm

  37. Hi,
    Is there a way to feed into it flickr tags? IE NOT the flickr pics, but the tags from flickr pics/galleries etc?

    Thanks.

    Comment by Stewart Gilray — March 31, 2009 @ 11:08 pm

  38. @Stewart: I’m not sure Flickr even publishes those tags as a feed. If it does, it should be possible to modify Cumulus to display them, but it will require some extensive changes.

    Comment by Roy — April 1, 2009 @ 9:00 am

  39. @Roy, thanks anyway, I am aware of a WP plugin (out dated now) that does pull the TAGS down from an account, so just wondered if you’d already done something similar. Thanks anyway.

    Comment by Stewart Gilray — April 1, 2009 @ 12:34 pm

  40. Hi Roy,
    The temptation to create a website came to me after seeing the tag cloud on a wordpress blog of a friend’s. I wanted to try to do something different.
    I created my main page as a tag cloud (instead of the traditional welcome page with menu).
    It works well for Mozilla firefox, but when I use IE (not just in my PC but at any internet cafe as well), I get this message :

    The XML page cannot be displayed
    Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

    ——————————————————————————–

    Parameter entity must be defined before it is used. Error processing resource ‘http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd…

    Is there any solution in form of code set tweaks i can make to solve this??

    Regards,
    Kaavya

    Comment by Kaavya — April 2, 2009 @ 8:50 am

  41. Hi Kaavya. I have to be honest with you, I can make heads not tails of the header in your site. It looks like XSL to me, which I haven’t done in ages. Perhaps you should try (X)HTML instead?

    Comment by Roy — April 2, 2009 @ 9:19 am

  42. Hi Roy. I instal Wp Cumulus on my joomla 1.5 but i can’t change the world’s insade.I like the worlds to be same of my article on my page but that’s is defolt automatic i don’t know …..a try everyting…pls help me man.

    Comment by Dzoc — April 2, 2009 @ 6:56 pm

  43. @Dzoc: You should contact the author of the Joomla port. I’m afraid I know nothing about the inner workings of Joomla.

    Comment by Roy — April 2, 2009 @ 9:12 pm

  44. Hi roy ,thanks for this really cool site. i download WP-Cumulus (it’s wonderful) for joomla version, but i need it for Persian language ( it’s like Arabic language with 4 more words) (right to left)… can you help me how i can use it in this language?? is there any way???

    Comment by Mehdi — April 5, 2009 @ 1:51 pm

  45. Hi Roy,

    This is a great plug-in indeed. Very fascinating and eye catching. However, I face a little trouble to change the font face. Any trick to do it?

    Thanks

    Comment by Eric — April 5, 2009 @ 5:54 pm

  46. hello

    i strived to insert a tag cloud in my blogSpot / Blog blog. but I am not fully satisfied. I would like a Cumulus.

    is it possible or not to insert one in a Blogger blog ?

    if no, is there alternative so that i can have an animated cloud with mty tags, like the WP-Cumulus.

    best

    T.

    Comment by OochyKoochy — April 7, 2009 @ 1:43 am

  47. Quite frustrated with tag cloud. I have pored over the files in my theme and in the tagcloud plugin folder. Although the number 550 appears nowhwere, as I have replaced it everywhere, the tagcloud swf ONLY appears at 550 px. No matter what settings I change, this is the ONLY width. Very annoying.

    Comment by Caleb — April 7, 2009 @ 3:54 am

  48. @Caleb: You shouldn’t need to edit any files. There are two sets of settings (one for the widget, another for the shortcode version) that you can use to adjust the dimensions etc. One is located under ’settings->wp cumulus’, the other is ‘inside’ the widget at ‘appearance->widgets’

    Comment by Roy — April 7, 2009 @ 8:59 am

  49. @OochyKoochy: Yes you can. Amanda over at Bloggerbuster has written a Blogger version.

    Comment by Roy — April 7, 2009 @ 9:01 am

  50. Thanks Roy. Indeed I altered those settings first. I only went to the files themselves when that didn’t work. When I view the source of the page it very clearly is still set to 550 width. It must, I can only assume, be a problem with the theme.

    Comment by Caleb — April 7, 2009 @ 3:57 pm

  51. Thanks a lot for everything Roy. There was a problem in the .swf object link , in the xhtml document of the index page.

    With a litte help from a flash expert friend of mine, I was able to solve it.
    Everyone loved the used of the tag cloud on my webpage.

    :)

    Comment by Kaavya — April 8, 2009 @ 7:42 am

  52. @Caleb: Please contact me by email. I’m sure it’s going to turn out to be easy to fix.

    Comment by Roy — April 8, 2009 @ 10:21 am

  53. Link: Плагин для WordPress Wp-cumulus. | Lady Maksima

  54. @ Roy

    well, i did so… does not work. i followed instructions in full. inserted as indicated, where indicated…

    hummm. me think: i’m scpetic. if you have any instance of a blogger / blogspot blog on which it works and that i can look, i may be able to ask the blog owner tips on how to insert the code and how they fixed the whole thing up.

    best

    T.

    Comment by OochyKoochy — April 11, 2009 @ 5:31 pm

  55. @OochyKoochy: I’ve seen it in action on many blogger blog, but since Amanda handles the tech support, I don’t have any bookmarked. Google led me to these: http://www.dualtranz.com/2008/09/flash-animated-label-cloud-widget.html and http://www.techgyaan.org/2009/03/how-to-insert-blogumus-in-blogger.html among others.

    Comment by Roy — April 11, 2009 @ 7:35 pm

  56. Dear Roy,

    Thanks for this nice plugin, I use it with Arabic language but when I click on arabic link I moved to empty destination without the arabic text for example:

    if the link go to /tags/مرحبا it is move me to /tags/ only and it strip the arabic text

    please note that when I view the html source I find the correct url.

    Please advice.

    Thanks.
    Mjarwan

    Comment by Mjarwan — April 20, 2009 @ 11:24 am

  57. how do i use this on (username).wordpress.com blogs?

    Comment by olrayt — April 21, 2009 @ 2:09 pm

  58. oh just read the other comment re: wordpress.com with cumulus. please delete my previous post :D

    Comment by olrayt — April 21, 2009 @ 2:10 pm

  59. hi Roy,
    Quite frustrated with tag cloud. I try to install it on my site, but it dosn’t works.
    Markup errors seems ok. Deactivated a lot of plugs.
    I can see only see the title from the widget and a with field in my sidbar.
    I like so much this plug. maybe you can give me some hints.

    regards

    Manni

    Comment by Manni — April 25, 2009 @ 7:32 pm

  60. Hi Manni. When I right-click the flash in your sidebar, I get a “movie not loaded” error. This means the movie can’t be loaded from http://yamunablog.yamuna.biz/wp-content/plugins/wp-cumulus/tagcloud.swf/ . When I go to that url I’m redirected too your blog’s front page, so there might be something wrong with your htaccess rules, or some other redirection mechanism. Please look into this. I’m pretty sure that will fix your issue.

    Comment by Roy — April 25, 2009 @ 7:58 pm

  61. Hi Roy,

    ok thanks for the hint.

    regards

    manni

    Comment by Manni — April 25, 2009 @ 8:22 pm

  62. In my page I have links, that passed to flash, like this:
    Тэг1

    But when I clicked in flash at this tag I go to
    http://192.168.0.101:8080/test3/search?Subject:list=%D2%FD%E31

    This is wrong page. Even with encoding (whis is not necessary) this link should be:
    http://192.168.0.101:8080/test3/search?SearchableText=%D0%A2%D1%8D%D0%B31

    Comment by Theo — April 28, 2009 @ 12:34 am

  63. Link: Блог на Андон Иванов » WP-Cumulus - ключовите думи под формата на флаш сфера.

  64. Dear Roy…
    That was a Great Job Bro…
    It 100000000% work on my blog…
    For all who use blgger just klick on da4053fa.blogspot.com
    THX

    Comment by Yosep — May 19, 2009 @ 7:09 am

  65. Best plugin I found, I love it.

    Comment by Waseem Qamar — June 19, 2009 @ 11:13 am

  66. Link: Tagnetic Poetry 1.0 adds shortcode support | Roy Tanck's weblog

  67. Hi Roy thanks for the great plugin. I know this might sound immature but how do I add it to my sidebar and a width of 260px? I received a message ‘flash player 9 or higher’ so I downloaded the latest flash player and still doesn’t work.

    I tried to follow your instructions but does it only work when you create a new page or post? How do add to the sidebar.php?

    Thanks in advance
    CHEERS :)

    Comment by Danny — July 8, 2009 @ 2:23 pm

  68. Love your plugins!! Congratulations on your work. I will spread it to everyone ;)

    Thanks for the detailed how-tos!

    Pedro

    Comment by Pedro — July 9, 2009 @ 1:45 am

  69. I have the same question as Danny above. I there a way to add arguments to the code for the sidebar?

    Comment by Timo — July 9, 2009 @ 9:20 am

  70. Thanks a lot Roy..I really appreciate it..

    Comment by Khalid — July 12, 2009 @ 5:42 pm

  71. Hi Danny, Timo. Are you guys using the widget? That has its own set of settings (simply click open the widget). If not, there isn’t currently a way to pass arguments to the php function call.

    Comment by Roy — July 18, 2009 @ 6:53 pm

  72. I am a newbie, please help me more technical to install this wp-cumulus. I can not find how to upload this cumulus. Please help me to find plugins folder to be uploaded to.
    I am very grateful if you help me by informing the step by step to may email.

    raggne

    Comment by raggne — August 6, 2009 @ 2:07 pm

  73. Hi Roy,

    thanks for that great plugin. I’ve downloaded the typo3 version which works very well, but with a very little restriction: How can i set the default font-size for the plugin? All links are getting displayed very litte and unreadable?!?

    Greets
    Guido P.

    Comment by Guido Palacios — August 11, 2009 @ 12:05 pm

  74. Hi Guido. I’m afraid you’ll have to contact the author of the Typo3 port to look into your issue. Font sizes are set in the Flash movie’s input data, and controlled by the CMS.

    Comment by Roy — August 11, 2009 @ 3:42 pm

  75. Hi, Roy. Your plugin looks super nice.
    But I have a problem, send a link to site.com / tag / postname /, but I want the transition to site.com / postname /. How do I configure this?

    Comment by VRS — August 13, 2009 @ 3:08 am

  76. If I want to put an image without text, what I have to do?
    I dont speak very bell english, sorry and thanks!

    Comment by NiKo — August 13, 2009 @ 3:12 am

  77. @NiKo. The Photo Widget does that.

    Comment by Roy — August 13, 2009 @ 1:37 pm

  78. Hi VRS. If you change the permalink structure for your blog, Cumulus will instantly update its links. It gets its links from core WordPress functions, and doesn’t store or cache them in any way (except perhaps for some caching by the Flash plugin, but that shouldn’t be too bad).

    Comment by Roy — August 13, 2009 @ 1:39 pm

  79. Link: Testing wp-cumulus « Security Enthusiast

  80. Than you for this great widget. This is supeer :)

    Comment by DarkCrema — August 23, 2009 @ 7:21 am

  81. Very good your pluggins, but where changed the size? here :wp-cumulus/wp-cumulus.php.I have test to change this line :
    function wp_cumulus_install () {
    $newoptions = get_option(‘wpcumulus_options’);
    $newoptions['width'] = ‘100′;
    $newoptions['height'] = ‘100′;
    But this not that. Thanks for your help.

    Comment by TIJ — August 25, 2009 @ 10:58 pm

  82. Hi TIJ. You can change the size and other settings under Settings -> WP Cumulus (these apply to the shortcode version) or by opening the widget on the widget screen (if you’re using the widget)

    Comment by Roy — August 26, 2009 @ 9:28 am

  83. Thank you very much! Beautiful plugin for wordpress!

    Comment by Andras — August 27, 2009 @ 2:39 pm

  84. Thanks for this very nice plug-in !have others plug-in for show music?

    Comment by LiuMing — September 3, 2009 @ 2:54 pm

  85. Link: WP Plugin: Cumulus | dev-spin-lab.de

  86. Hello Roy! We really appreciate your great work! It’s incredibly amazing to learn so many things from you! WP-Cumulus is very wonderful tool and we put it on our blog! Thank you! God bless!

    Comment by Olga — September 19, 2009 @ 12:11 pm

  87. Nice plugin…can i integrate this with my flex application… ..any document related to this…
    Thx

    Comment by trio — September 22, 2009 @ 7:45 am

  88. Hi Trio. There’s a flex port here.

    Comment by Roy — September 22, 2009 @ 9:26 am

  89. Great Plugin. Easy to use. I think that plugin is absolutely an eyecatcher for every website/blog.

    Comment by Johnny Prince — September 23, 2009 @ 10:54 am

  90. superb !!! Thank you :)

    Ravikumar V.

    Comment by Ravikumar V. — September 23, 2009 @ 2:21 pm

  91. Hey I have tried all the setting you have mentioned to make wp-cumulus work for my website.. But it isnt working at all.. I have installed flash player and javascript..installed it with widget on sidebar.. but still no changes its coming as it is in a plane format… Plz help… this is the website link

    antivirus.reviewcity.net

    Comment by vipul — September 24, 2009 @ 8:40 am

  92. Hi Roy, I am desperate .. I had your plugin all set up and working fine .. after doing some updates it disappeared and I cant figure out where is the problem. I am having tags assigned to pages through simple tags plugin …

    The page is here: http://en.labohemecafe.eu/coffee/

    Thanks a lot ..

    Comment by Yara — September 24, 2009 @ 1:57 pm

  93. Hi Yara. When looking at the source code on that page I see al the right stuff, except there are no tags. Could you try placing the regular WP html tag cloud (widget) on your blog and see if it displays any tags at all? Cumulus is simply a flash frontend for WP’s built-in tag functionality. I’ve seen issues with Simple Tags before, so I’ll contact the author about this to see if there’s a quick fix.

    Comment by Roy — September 24, 2009 @ 2:13 pm

  94. Vipul, I can’t seem to find even the slightest hint of WP-Cumulus code on that page. Are you sure the widget is in there somewhere?

    Comment by Roy — September 24, 2009 @ 2:20 pm

  95. Hi Yara, say plz, how include your plugin into the wp theme directly. Thank you.

    Comment by AntraX — September 26, 2009 @ 1:35 am

  96. hello Mr.Roy, Please Help Me, I’m So stress and Confused To insert comulus in my site,
    sorry, co’z i newbie , i still learning about design web, i’m use wordpress, and co.cc thats domain,
    i install gamezine wordpress themes, Question :

    i want insert comulus under recent post, in packed install, i have siderbar.php , sidebar1.php and sidebar2.php, when i use widgets, after i active this comulus plugin, and insert in widgets sider bar, BUT CAN NOT DISPLAYED IN MY SITE, and then i TRY insert the CODE, i have same problem, the comulus NOT DIPLAYED in my site, please help me, What can i do?.
    Thanx..
    Darmawan

    Comment by darmawan — September 26, 2009 @ 12:20 pm

  97. Sorry roy i removed it coz it was not working at all… so i installed some other plugin…i just wanted to confirm that in which condition it will work proper….n what else plugin it requires… also is thr any editing in the theme???? If you answer this a lot of ppl like me will be able to install it with ease… thanks in advance…

    Comment by vipul — September 26, 2009 @ 7:18 pm

  98. I love wp-cumulus but since it was not working i installed simple tag for some time..plz let me knw the solution so that i can switch back to it…i hv just deactivated it…

    Comment by vipul — September 26, 2009 @ 7:19 pm

  99. Vipul, I do not have a solution to this. Simple Tags seems to bypass the regular tagging functionality in WP, and because of this its tags aren’t available for me to work with. I’ve yet to hear back from the author about how to possibly resolve this.

    Comment by Roy — September 27, 2009 @ 1:03 pm

  100. Darmawan, does your site validate in validator.w3.org , and do IE, Firefox and Chrome/Safari all show the same thing?

    Comment by Roy — September 27, 2009 @ 1:04 pm

  101. Hello Mr.Roy, I try in Firefox and IE , Show Different in comulus colum side bar, i active widgets and drag into siderbar 2 , but in FIREFOX browser can’t show comulus ( i mean JUST show “white color” / Nothing )
    and in IE, same thing, SHOW LIKE THAT :
    MAINAN ( TITLE )
    ” WP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by
    Roy Tanck
    requires Flash Player 9 or better.

    The Comulus Not Shown, PLease Help me, This My Site, can u check this http://1soul.co.cc
    sorry , i’m so newbie , and i don’t understand about “VALIDATE in VALIDATOR.w3.org –<<< What is that?… Thanx…..
    DARMAWAN

    Comment by darmawan — September 27, 2009 @ 5:26 pm

  102. this is MY VALIDATE RESULT : http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2F1soul.co.cc%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&ss=1&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.654

    I’m So Stress, Coz, i have”nt basic of webdesign , php, etc.. But i want to learn, can u help me pls..to FIX my problem, ” WHAT CAN I DO TO FIX THIS PROBLEM”? , co’z I’m Verry Interest with Your COMULUS… PLease Help Me…
    Thanx…
    DARMAWAN

    Comment by darmawan — September 27, 2009 @ 5:35 pm

  103. Darmawan, the best thing would be to tidy up all errors. You could also try the ‘compatbility mode’ in WP-Cumulus (found under Settings -> WP Cumulus).

    Comment by Roy — September 29, 2009 @ 9:32 am

  104. Mr.Roy i had been try To check list The Compatbility Box, and update post, but i have a same problem. comulus can’t show, and for the error validate, i still try to fix it, i’m so stress..hehe:0. co’z i don’t have a basis for PHP language and Html, i’m verry2 newbie…hope u can help me to fix this comulus, co’z i’ so like to post u’r comulus in my site…do u have the other solution for me?…please…

    maybe can u make some guide for me to fix my problem..thanx..
    GOD BLESS U…

    DARMAWAN

    Comment by darmawan — September 29, 2009 @ 7:08 pm

  105. Darmawan, it looks like you do not have any tags on your blog. You need to add tags to posts in order for Cumulus to display them. Please make sure you use WP’s built-in tagging system, not a 3rd party alternative.

    Comment by Roy — September 30, 2009 @ 8:57 am

  106. Mr.Roy, Thanx A Lot, i take a tag in my post, and the comulus can show now hehe :) , i’m so happy…
    but i’m still try to fix thats comulus, with the black ground, how change that’s background and the size of text and colour?

    thanx
    darmawan

    Comment by darmawan — October 3, 2009 @ 6:56 pm

  107. I’m so glad i found you I love your plug-in. As you noticed –most people used it in a sidebar widget — and that’s the way — did –until a few days ago I decided to use it as a full page “category” cloud for an MU hosting site, and having some difficulty w/ it & that sent me here…. Delighted to meet you and thank you directly

    I know others who use cumulus as well, or who have commented on it –very attractive and useful bit of candy. Thank you for your generosity, and supporting this. …. I hope Tons of goodness come your way….

    Now that I have all the variables… I’m going to go tweak cumulus….

    Thanks Roy

    –
    heywho

    Comment by heywho — October 6, 2009 @ 9:00 pm

  108. Hi,

    Thanks for creating such a visually stunning way to display tags. I would like to embed this on my edublogs blog. Can I do so without being an edublog supporter? If so, how do I do it?

    Thank you for you attention to this request.

    Comment by erikbyker — October 6, 2009 @ 9:03 pm

  109. I need some help for getting the tagcloud to work the way I want to outside of wordpress. It is currently sitting on a page but I need it to automatically start rotating upon loading. Could you please help me out or tell me what code in the AS to edit to get it to do this.

    Thanks

    Comment by Allen — October 13, 2009 @ 6:58 pm

  110. Link: forchel.de» Blogarchiv » Kumulus

  111. thanks for this great plug-in!

    But I have a little problem by using this plug-in.
    Before I activated the plug-in I had changed the font colors, width and hight in the wp-culums.php.
    I connected the plug-in to my sidebar by using .
    Now the plug-in works good. But I want to change the color for ['tcolor2'] again and by editing this part in wp-culums.php. Nothing changed in the plug-in after i edited the file. Is there some code I have to chage, too ?
    Thanks in advance!

    Comment by Daniel — October 17, 2009 @ 12:15 pm

  112. Link: Play « Information Search Blog

  113. Hi Daniel. You shouldn’t edit the php file. All settings can be changed by clicking open the widget or under Settings -> WP-Cumulus. Every time you upgrade the plugin, changes to wp-cumulus.php will get overwritten, and besides, there are only default values in there, which get set once, upon installation.

    Comment by Roy — October 20, 2009 @ 9:22 am

  114. Hey Roy,
    I am a huge fan of your Cumulus cloud! I’m a beginner when it comes to web design… I would be honored to have your cloud as the homepage center for my website. I don’t want to link it to a blog though, I just have a list of words that I want to use. Is there an easy way for a beginner to do this? The cloud’s whole purpose on my website would just be eye candy. :)
    Underneath the cloud would be a link to my actual website, but the cloud would be on the landing page.

    Please email me or reply to this post at your convenience.
    Thank you!

    Comment by Michael — October 21, 2009 @ 3:36 am

  115. Hi Roy,

    Thank you for this nice Tag Cloud. I tried to use this tags in the website that i work on it now. It is a sharepoint website and i want to read the tags from a list but I failed to make it work , do you know how to use it , can you help me?

    Please reply to me.
    Thank you at all.

    Comment by Nehal Al-Jurf — October 21, 2009 @ 7:02 am

  116. Hi Michael, Nehal, this tutorial should get you started…

    Comment by Roy — October 22, 2009 @ 1:00 pm

  117. great plugin thx.

    WP-Cumulus by Roy Tanck requires Flash Player 9 or better.

    i use flash player 10 and wp 2.8.5.

    normally it should work?

    thx

    Comment by digi — October 23, 2009 @ 4:51 pm

  118. Your plugin was superb when i saw this on another site i immediately grab it for my site as well,
    Another thing is i know how to use shortcodes of wordpress plugin thank you once again.

    Comment by Jamal — October 24, 2009 @ 7:10 pm

  119. Hi Roy … it works its with 2.8.5. was just a wrong folder name… guys, (never change the name of the plugin folder… lol) its really awesome. thank you.

    Comment by digi — October 24, 2009 @ 10:05 pm

  120. Hello
    Can I use it on wordpress.com hosted blog?

    Comment by Or-Tal — October 25, 2009 @ 9:07 am

  121. Ho Or-Tal. No, I’m afraid WP.com blocks nearly every use of Flash, including Cumulus. Afaik you’re also not allowed to use plugins, so installing it would be cumbersome too, if at all possible.

    Comment by Roy — October 28, 2009 @ 8:21 am

  122. Link: The Holt Clan » Blog Archive » ::The Cumulus Cloud for your Tags/Categories::

  123. your plugins is so beautifful ,, hehhe

    Comment by bee — November 26, 2009 @ 12:26 am

  124. Hi Roy,
    thanks for this really well-done tag cloud. It’ amazing! I’m using the Simple Tags and Tags 4 Pages plugins to add tags to pages and not only to posts. But the problem is, that WP-Cumulus doesn’t display these page tags. If I add the same tag to a post and a page it will be displayed in by Cumulus and the page will also be shown in the results when I hit the tag link. But if a tag is only set for a page it wont show up. Is there any way to solve this? Please help.

    Comment by Andy — December 5, 2009 @ 10:47 pm

  125. I am also using Tags 4 Pages and wish that Cumulus would show my tags from Tags 4 Pages as that is basically what my internal work website consist of and not post. If anyone one knows a trick or a way to accomplish this please enlighten us here. Any clues Roy?

    Comment by Killer — December 8, 2009 @ 6:38 pm

  126. Link: WP-Cumulus, plug-in animasi untuk tampilkan tag cloud pada situs dengan engine Word Press | feedberry

  127. Hi! Very nice & spectacular plugin. It seems it’s missing ő and ű – characters used in the Hungarian alphabet and elsewhere. Is there a way to build them in? Thanks in advance.

    Comment by Steven Seagal — December 22, 2009 @ 10:12 am

  128. thank’s..for tutorials..

    Comment by Hakim — January 6, 2010 @ 4:48 am

  129. Can I use this tag cloud in tumblr?

    Comment by tek penny — January 14, 2010 @ 12:03 pm

  130. Tek penny, I’m not sure. I have tutorials available for anyone willing to attempt this, but I haven’t looked at it myself.

    Comment by Roy — January 21, 2010 @ 9:47 am

  131. Hi Roy,

    I would like to try myself, where can I find the tutorials?

    thanks a lot

    Comment by tek penny — January 21, 2010 @ 10:32 am

  132. tek penny: here. Please keep me posted!

    Comment by Roy — January 21, 2010 @ 10:37 am

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