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This is the personal blog of Roy Tanck, designer, geek, entrepreneur and WordPress enthusiast. It's also the home of projects like WP-Cumulus (a 3D tag cloud for WordPress), my Flickr widget, Gunfollow (the Twitter hitman) and Snapatar.com. More about me here, or you can follow me on Twitter.Recent Comments
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Hi.. its a wonderful plugin
Can i use the same for my site
Comment by manish — August 22, 2008 @ 11:27 am
How Do I Create A Page Like This With My Tags?
Thanks
Comment by JesusCrunk.com — August 28, 2008 @ 6:06 am
Hi JesusCrunk. Please see http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/installation/ for instructions on how to set it up as (or rather ‘on’) a page.
Comment by Roy — August 28, 2008 @ 7:54 am
Hello Roy, I would like to use this plugin for a commercial site. What are the license terms? I see that it is GPL, colleagues asked me if nothing is changed in the code than I would not need to publish anything, right? Thx RTG
Comment by RTG — September 3, 2008 @ 9:48 pm
Hi RTG. That is also my understanding of the GPL license. If you change nothing there’s no need to publish your modified code.
Comment by Roy — September 3, 2008 @ 9:54 pm
Love the cloud i am a little dumb when it comes to flash and wordpress is the a way of getting the cloud to just pick up the tags off of the posting no off all site tags?
Comment by Mark — September 4, 2008 @ 9:37 am
Hi Mark. That’s an interesting idea, and I will definitely look into that, but the current version is meant to replace your blog’s overall tag cloud.
Comment by Roy — September 4, 2008 @ 11:04 am
Hi Roy,
thanks for your quick response. I still have to consult what happens if your cool plug in is simply included into the page which is commercial and available to the public. But this is nothing different as to use it on your blog where you also offer some service. So it sounds safe.
….
But if you see any issue please let me know in advance which way it could be used. Just want to keep any troubles with customer away.
I love it
RTG
Comment by RTG — September 4, 2008 @ 2:20 pm
No problem. It is safe. You can definitely use GPL software commercially, as long as you’re not selling it as (part of) your product.
Comment by Roy — September 4, 2008 @ 6:56 pm
Hi Roy,
)) I like it!
This is GREAT! you have created a living cloud
We are fans of tags and tag clouds as well – actually, we are creating a search tool which narrow searches with help of tags
(don’t get me wrong – it’s not an ad, just nice to meet like-minded person)
Comment by Tanya — September 12, 2008 @ 10:50 am
Hey Roy!
A great tag cloud indeed!
Well I had a query, isn’t this available for Blogger platform?
Well liked it and would love to get it for my blog if possible!
Do reply with the source..
Thanx!
Comment by Abhishek — September 15, 2008 @ 12:52 am
Hi Abhishek. Please see here: http://www.roytanck.com/2008/09/02/wp-cumulus-for-blogger-blogumus/
Comment by Roy — September 15, 2008 @ 12:12 pm
Good day to You!
Where I can find options of types? It’s in swf?
Flash not work with cyrilic text.
PS Thanx for good idea about this cloud!
Comment by Exquisitor — September 15, 2008 @ 7:25 pm
If I may…
You plugin trades cool for useful.
You’ve taken the primary attribute of a tag cloud item – its scale relative to the other tags — and completely subverted the whole point by scaling them up or down to fake a 3D sphere.
You’ve also added another problem – that of depth – which imparts an importance of things in the foreground and a diminished importane of things in the background (after all, they are faded out).
So the small, medium, large items are now spread out in depth which totally undermines the use of font size as a factor in determining the tag popularity.
Yes, it’s cool.
No, it’s not useful at all.
I look forward to you replying and hearing your views.
Note this is a civil UI discussion not a bitch fest/flame on my part.
Comment by Varth Dader — September 16, 2008 @ 10:22 pm
Corrections:
Your plug-in trades useful for cool.
Comment by Varth Dader — September 16, 2008 @ 10:24 pm
Hi Vader. I agree. Even though the tags in Cumulus are scaled by the number of occurrances just like with a regular tag cloud, its harder to notice with all the 3d going on.
But what it comes down to is that you’re right. This trades in useful for cool. The real question is whether that’s a bad thing. My guess is that it’s different for everyone. You may opt not to use my plugin on your blog, others have chosen to do.
I would not use tags as a primary way of navigation on any website. They’re ‘extra’, and can offer a more spontaneous way of discovering a site’s content by triggering interest in often used keywords. With that in mind WP-Cumulus’ highly visual approach may not be a bad idea. But the choice is up to you.
Comment by Roy — September 17, 2008 @ 10:50 am
Can we use this wonderful, eye catching and very attractive search option on any other platform – I mean not WP?????
Comment by Hasnain — September 18, 2008 @ 5:18 am
Thanks for the reply Roy.
Fun is fun, cool is cool and I think there is a sufficiently large amount of people that never grokked what a normal tag cloud is supposed to “do” to begin with (besides look cool) to be bothered by the things I pointed out. And your 3D versions is just cooler to them.
It’s odd that I haven’t heard any similar criticisms. I guess any pro web designer would avoid it (unless forced to use it by a client) as opposed to a blogger that just thinks it’s neato. No offense, again.
I just couldn’t use it. 
It’s rare that you have a web tech phenomenon (tag cloud) which has really just one key attribute as its reason for being (font scaling to indicate ranking) and to have another one come along and subvert that one attribute to the point of uselessness. And a secondary resulting aspect, the tag cloud’s general irregular blobiness is now also gone in favor of a tighter, nothing-at-all-like-a-cloud, sphere. Less 3D tag cloud, more 3D word ball. The shape is rather more like a sack for of cats fighting rolling down a hill.
Anyhoo, thanks for the distraction.
Comment by Varth Dader — September 21, 2008 @ 11:00 pm
Thanks for the great plugin. I fell in love with it and decided to put it up on my political blog. Ever since visitors have been asking me where I got it, so I have been directing them to you
Comment by Alex — September 24, 2008 @ 12:39 am
Roy… I love this thing. Simply love it
Thnx
Comment by alberto d'ottavi — October 13, 2008 @ 10:14 am
Wow…very nice
Comment by D e n n i e — October 14, 2008 @ 5:25 pm
Is it possible to use this as a constantly rotating sphere for presentational purposes? Are there any unpublished variables? Ie. (Disable rotation easing) or (direction of the rotation) or (speed of the rotation)?
Comment by Jon — October 16, 2008 @ 11:51 pm
Hi Jon. There are no undocumented features whatsoever, but it slowdown effect is quite easy to disable if you’re able to edit the sources a bit and recompile the movie (which basically means: if you have Flash installed and know the bare basics).
Simply open up the tagcloud.as file, find the line that says “active = false; and change false to true. Then scroll down a bit and comment out the next two lines bij adding a double slash in front of each one.
stage.addEventListener(Event.MOUSE_LEAVE, mouseExitHandler);
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, mouseMoveHandler);
That should disable the motion easing and mouse exit detection. If you want to have the cloud move constantly in one direction no matter where the mous is, scroll down a bit further to the “updateTags” function and set the ‘a’ and ‘b’ variables to fixed values.
Comment by Roy — October 17, 2008 @ 1:00 pm
Thanks Roy. This is great news! I’m eager to give it a try.
I did not realize the source code was available. How do we go about getting this?
Thanks for your support.
Jon
Comment by Jon — October 17, 2008 @ 5:24 pm
Sorry…found the source code on your download site and got everything working perfectly.
Thank you so much!
Jon
Comment by Jon — October 17, 2008 @ 5:50 pm
Hi Roy,
Thanks for a great plugin, and for replying to people- should never be under estimated!
My question is a simple one- I am using Categories rather than Tags in the cloud because then it becomes an effective navigation tool
However, I can’t exclude/include categories, only Tags (when used as a tag cloud or both).
Also
Comment by Also — October 18, 2008 @ 9:33 pm
Hi.
Two questions.
I would add the target (<a target=”_parent” …) option for my links. It’s possible?
I would use in my site, which is not WP, your tagcloud.swf file and changing a little your wp-cumulus.php ! It’s possible?
Many thanks
Comment by Gal — October 19, 2008 @ 10:14 am
Very cool. Not something I would find terribly useful, but nonetheless – very, cool.
Comment by Matt Chatterley — November 21, 2008 @ 4:10 pm
I would use this more than a normal tag cloud, I often think tag clouds are messy and kinda detract from a site but this puts a whole new perspective on it and its entertaining, nice work Roy.
Comment by SLoB — November 21, 2008 @ 8:28 pm
Hello Roy Tanck,
I like toyr tag clud which had been modified to be Joomulus and which I’m using in my website now http://www.MiMusic.co.cc
But I have problem with the text size, it’s too big. Which caused of very many article that are using that tags. Is there any tips to make the text become smaller?
Thanks
Mickeel
Comment by Mickeel — November 22, 2008 @ 12:59 am
This is the best tag widget EVER, now if someone could only show me how to embed it into my IntegraMod portal.
Im nowhere near being a techie so a few step by step instructions would be greatly appreciated.
Here is my site
http://www.loadedparanormal.com
Comment by XHIBIT — November 27, 2008 @ 5:08 am
Hey there I really like the design of your tag cloud, I have a question though, I’m trying to make my own website (complete amateur) and I would love to use your tag cloud design on my front page. Right now I’m using Blue Voda as my webpage maker since I have no experience using dream weaver and similar software. How can I embed it into my site without having it uploaded on the internet at the moment? I’m still trying to get it to look nice and I don’t want to upload it at the moment. Of course I’ll give you full credit for the tag cloud on the site.
Comment by MIles — December 2, 2008 @ 7:00 am
Hi Miles. Please see http://www.roytanck.com/2008/05/19/how-to-repurpose-my-tag-cloud-flash-movie/ .
Comment by Roy — December 2, 2008 @ 12:31 pm
Hoi Roy,
Uitstekend plugin!
I was amused by Varth Dader’s comments above — even when he comes back, he can’t stop his negativity. I guess he got out of the dark side of the bed
I disagree too with his insistence on utility over any other feature. Style is an essential element in design, and this dynamic cloud is very stylish.
Utility is not always immediately obvious. As Ben Franklin said, “What’s the use of a newborn baby?” (context)
I should know — #4 is due in April!
Comment by Ria — December 2, 2008 @ 2:02 pm
hi,, this is very good. but as i created my website in Silverlight, so i need to put the tag cloud in Silverlight, any ideas about it…
will be waiting for the reply.
thanx!
Comment by Zain Shaikh — December 11, 2008 @ 8:38 pm
Hi Zain. I guess the source code for the movie could serve as ‘inspiration’ for a Silverlight version… But other than that the two seem to be sworn enemies.
Comment by Roy — December 12, 2008 @ 8:44 am
Hi, Roy,.,.,
Can You Help Me? Please, Give Me The Code This Tag,.,.
Please,.,.,!!!!!!!!!
Comment by soedarland — December 12, 2008 @ 3:46 pm
Roy,
I want to use your very cool cloud tag on a NING based social network with blogs. Can this be done?
Comment by Clymer...CC — December 16, 2008 @ 3:21 pm
Hi Clymer…CC. I’m sure it can, but someone familiar with that system will have to create a port. See the link I posted in an earlier comment for more info.
Comment by Roy — December 17, 2008 @ 8:47 am
Hey! pretty nice love it seem very good. and cools to use. Thanks for tag.
Comment by jagadish — December 18, 2008 @ 11:31 am
Can you create a tag cloud for images please?
Comment by mark kolb — December 20, 2008 @ 2:04 am
hi, nice plug in.
I m having a problem though, in the option i put “ffffff” color for the tags and “000000″ for the background, but on the page it still shows the default white background , black tags even after updating the options and refreshing my page! I’m stumped!
What to do?
Comment by WarlorD — December 20, 2008 @ 8:04 pm
Hi WarlorD. Are you sure you put the settings in the right place? The widget has a seperate set of settings, which you can edit under ‘design->widgets’…
Comment by Roy — December 20, 2008 @ 10:11 pm
yup, u r right. I overlooked the widget settings. Thnx
By the way is there any way to make the corners of the box that appear on the tags when hovered upon round? I think that might look good than the rectangle.
Comment by WarlorD — December 22, 2008 @ 8:09 pm
If anyone is interested in making a few bucks installing this on my website (payable thru PayPal) contact me at XHIBIT_A_@hotmail.com
Comment by XHIBIT — December 23, 2008 @ 9:01 am
your flash tag = easy to use, simple, beautiful !
hi ! i discovered it as i was working on wordpress, and was so happy to be able to use it on a ‘classical’ website
so i simply integrated it into mine (? excuse my english, i’m a french girl).
so i’d better say it in french : “ton nuage de tags est original, fluide mais surtout magnifique ! merci ! ”
thank you so much !
holy sd.
Comment by holy sd — December 23, 2008 @ 12:47 pm
How can i use multi colored in tag clouds………….If anyone knows …………send me reply
Comment by Mujawer — December 24, 2008 @ 11:20 am
@mujawer. You can change the colors throuhg ‘settings->wp-cumulus’ or ‘design->widgets->wp-cumulus’ depending on whether you’re using the widget or the regular version.
To have a multi-colored tag cloud you can enter two color values, from which a gradient is created. This gradient is then used to color the tags based on their importance.
Comment by Roy — December 24, 2008 @ 2:40 pm
Hi Roy,
A great plug-in indeed. But I have a problem with it on my blogger site. It doesn’t show Cyrillic characters! Can I fix it somehow?
And one more question – can I have that type of cloud with my posts headings instead of the labels?
Thanks a lot!
Comment by kyko — January 4, 2009 @ 1:26 pm
hey is there any way of putting ur great plugin as a springboard theme on the iphone if so u should figure it out and try selling cause i feel you’d be rich if u did
Comment by Jai burnam — January 6, 2009 @ 2:51 am
and if u manage to do it could i be ur first beta tester err something dude cause that thing rocks
Comment by Jai burnam — January 6, 2009 @ 2:52 am
Hi Jai. Hmm.. the iPhone doesn’t do Flash, so that’s going to be tricky. I’ll if there’s a different approach though…
Comment by Roy — January 6, 2009 @ 12:04 pm
well sum iphone developers are trying to get a full working version of linux for the iphone and it has an array of features which might be of better use and the phone is loaded with great hardware to possibly be able to run ur cloud in sum form or another maybe when iphone linux is released there might be more options for u to try
Comment by jaiburnam — January 8, 2009 @ 2:33 am
Really great, thank you for making such nice plugin…
Comment by nikoTM — January 9, 2009 @ 11:15 am
Hi Roy,
Your cloud tag is awesome .
I have a blog .
I want to add this tag in ma blog but I can’t understand how can I do this.
I am searching this from long days.
Pls pls pls help me.. pls.
Comment by Supratik Halder — January 11, 2009 @ 7:12 pm
hello my name is ray,
wow amazing,
how you do that?
can i borrow some?
please
thx
Comment by ray — January 12, 2009 @ 8:47 am
LOVE IT SO MUCH !!!
My Page
Comment by G Piou — January 16, 2009 @ 10:23 am
Hi,
I have source code of your excellent plugin.
I need to know, how to change ” tag” colors. i know how to change background color, but not tag color.
I am using it on my website, which has a color scheme, and i can not use it as it is.
thanks
Ankit
http://www.Mediaken.com
Comment by Ankit — January 19, 2009 @ 3:49 pm
Hi Roy, YES it’s a wunderful piece of work. Can I use it for my website or connect you to the people who build my new site. As you know, that part is not my thing. I only look very perfectionistic to the communication goals en user experience of it.
Comment by Angeli Hagoort — January 19, 2009 @ 5:31 pm
@Ankit: The ‘tcolor’ attribute changes the tag color. There’s also a ‘tcolor2′ and a ‘hicolor’ parameter in the latest version, allowing for multi-colored tags and a highlight color.
Comment by Roy — January 20, 2009 @ 11:34 am
@Angeli: Yes you can. I’ve released this under the GPL license, so you can pretty much do anything with it short of selling it to clients. Feel free to have your people contact mine (I’ll do silly voices on the phone and pretend to transfer your call to the right department).
Comment by Roy — January 20, 2009 @ 11:37 am
Hey Roy,
are you planning to release a new version of the plugin that runs on WP2.7 ?
Thanks for answering!
Péter
Hungary
Comment by Péter — January 20, 2009 @ 6:44 pm
@Péter: It does run on 2.7. I still have to update the readme, but I’ve tested in myself.
Comment by Roy — January 20, 2009 @ 6:55 pm
Hi Mr. Roy,
Great, i figured out how to change colors, next thing i am stuck at is, some of my tags(actually keywords in my combination) are overlapping at times, as i have fixed space, i dont want them to overlap. Also, they dont actually look like a sphere.
TIA
Ankit
Comment by Ankit — January 20, 2009 @ 8:37 pm
Hi Ankit. To minimize overlapping, you can use the ‘distr’ parameter (set it to ‘true’). It looks like the movie is currently quite a bit wider than the available space. It looks like you’re trying to set it to 125.3 pixels wide. My guess is that the decimal is causing the movie not be scaled properly.
Comment by Roy — January 21, 2009 @ 9:08 am
Hi roy, it was wonderful creation.. but i wonder if i can apply this on my blogspot?
Comment by ika — January 21, 2009 @ 11:07 am
Hi Ika. I think you’re looking for this.
Comment by Roy — January 21, 2009 @ 11:35 am
Great plugin!
Comment by Fernando S.R. — January 22, 2009 @ 6:55 pm
hi..I use your amazing widget for my blog here. I look the tag is not centered within the box. How do I fix it? Thanks for this amazing widget!! please respond…:)
Comment by nindrianto — January 23, 2009 @ 4:26 am
@nindrianto: It look like the movie is a little too wide for the containing box. I can see tags moving outside of the box occasionally. You should proably try adjusting the width until it fits.
Comment by Roy — January 23, 2009 @ 10:16 am
okay, roy..thanks a lot. I’ve edited it by add center tags in the code. Now, that is more better. please review again, if you have a time…thanks..
Comment by nindrianto — January 27, 2009 @ 4:11 pm
loving the cloud.. will it work on typepad?
Comment by Graeme — January 31, 2009 @ 1:37 am
Hi Roy, Love the cloud, but how can I have two clouds as widgets one holding the tag and the other holding the categories?
Comment by jimbo — February 3, 2009 @ 10:29 am
@jimbo: Currently you can’t. There isn’t really a technical reason for that but it wasn’t designed that way. You can have a widget and a non-widget version on the same page, but not two widgets. Perhaps if you edit your theme’s sidebar.php to include the non-widget version somewhere outside of the actual widgetized sidebar it might work.
Comment by Roy — February 3, 2009 @ 1:40 pm
hi roy..
i’ve been eyeing your cloud tag since the first time i saw it last year..
since now i’ve manage to learn and build my own website (photoblog), i wish i could use your amazing cloud tag..
by the way, i’m using pixelpost with xampp.
hope u may guide me to integrate your cloud tag into my photoblog, because i’m very2 new to website building things…
currently i’m using localhost as i’m still looking for the suitable hosting..
thanks..
Comment by split.second — February 5, 2009 @ 7:40 am
Hi Roy, I’m planning to use your this plug but having a few changes in the source code. How does that work about the license terms?
Comment by RFSP — February 5, 2009 @ 12:07 pm
Hi RFSP. You can simply get the sources from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/download/ and edit them any way you wish.
Comment by Roy — February 5, 2009 @ 2:46 pm
Is WordPress necessary to use this tag cloud? Or, can I code it into my website manually … meaning, does it require anything in WordPress behind the scenes?
Comment by Ace — February 9, 2009 @ 3:26 pm
Nevermind that, I got it to work on my site … thanks, very nice.
Comment by Ace — February 9, 2009 @ 3:58 pm
thanks bro..
U’re the man!
Comment by kyo_9 — February 12, 2009 @ 6:16 pm
i want to use this in a asp site
Comment by pubudu — February 14, 2009 @ 3:08 am
Hi dude!
I don’t want to put in my cloud tags, cat, but particular custom fields… My question is simple, can I use my own SQL request to get the good words and links ?
thanks
Comment by Franck — February 15, 2009 @ 10:44 am
great plugin. One question.
Is there a way to left or right justify the cloud?
It appears centered in the sidebar and I would like to left justify it.
Thanks
Comment by ron — February 20, 2009 @ 2:18 pm
@ron: It does indeed center itself within the available space. To change this you should either edit the Flash movie, or create a larger containing html element in which to position the Flash movie.
Comment by Roy — February 20, 2009 @ 10:14 pm
You can help me please … I want the NEWEST Tags in the cloud. I became only old tags inside.
what can i do?
Comment by maybejam — February 21, 2009 @ 2:11 pm
@maybejam: I’m afraid that WordPress’ wp_tag_cloud function simply doesn’t support that. It returns the gas ordered either by name or count (meaning the number of times a tag is used). Since my plugin uses this function to get its data, it inherits this limitation.
Comment by Roy — February 21, 2009 @ 9:27 pm
Thank you for the fast answer… I will times experiment with it.
Comment by maybejam — February 21, 2009 @ 10:48 pm
Hi Roy !
Thank you for your superb work. I tried your plugin on my wordpress blog but I have this error :
WP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by Roy Tanck requires Flash Player 9 or better.
Yet, I have the flash player installed (I reinstalled it, just to make sure) and I can see your cloud in any other site (yours for instance)… What did I miss ? Is there anything I need to install on my webserver in order to accept flash movies ?
Comment by Gou — February 23, 2009 @ 11:34 am
Hi Gou. Did you check your site for markup errors using validator.w3.org? In 99% of cases, errors like yours are caused by these errors.
Comment by Roy — February 23, 2009 @ 11:44 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
I once saw a page listing all the integrations done to various cms, can’t find it anymore, and i would like to update it with ezpublish, can you tell me were i can find this page ?
Regard,
Comment by jean-yves — February 23, 2009 @ 11:53 am
Hi Jean-yves: That list is on wordpress.org, and I’ll be sure to update it with your project upon the next WP-Cumulus release. Great work!
Comment by Roy — February 23, 2009 @ 1:01 pm
Thank you for your quick answer Roy : I did check my site using validator.w3.org and passed through the tests. I’m not sure where to look for now… Any idea ?
Comment by Gou — February 23, 2009 @ 9:52 pm
@Gou: Can you email me the URL? I’ll have a look. Also, please upgrade to the latest version by uploading it through FTP, instead of using WordPress’ built in upgrade feature.
Comment by Roy — February 24, 2009 @ 8:24 pm
Updating from 1.18 to 1.19 (via FTP but I don’t know if it has anything to do with it since I didn’t try WP feature) solved the problem.
Thank you for your kindness and your work Roy !
Comment by Gou — February 25, 2009 @ 11:07 am
Hey! I’m working on a school project for my grad program at Georgia Tech in which I combine several widgets and/or RSS feeds to create a unified local for getting information on a particular subject in a visually appealing way.
I’ve been playing with your code for a couple of days now and I’ve been attempting to connect it to my own database of images (and alternatively, something like Photobucket or Flickr could work). I would love to be able to have images instead of text in the tag cloud – I’m just not sure how ot go about it. I know you’ve done your own Flickr version of this, so I was wondering if you’d give me some hints to getting to that.
Also, I was wondering if you knew how to force your links in your tag to open in a particular frame. I’m trying to have the cloud next to a list of tags next to an RSS feed style information entry. Currently, when you click the tags, the content opens in either the same frame you’re already on or in a separate window/tab altogether. I’ve tried inserting a target code in the XML file, but it doesn’t seem to work. Any ideas would be much appreciated?
Feel free to email me at my school account. Thanks in advance!
Comment by Betsy G. — March 4, 2009 @ 5:39 pm
Hi Betsy. Having images instead of tags is a little tricky. You’d definitely have to edit the Flash movie to make it accept (and load) image urls through XML. The Flickr version looks as nice as it does because Flickr supplies images at a fixes size, and the total count is limited to 20. Having more, and/or larger images can cause the movie to look weird. I was quite amazed at how well it worked with Flickr, your mileage may vary.
Opening links in a frame can be done by editing the Tag.as file. Look for ‘_self’, and change that to whatever suits your needs. Both frames and target=”_blank” are depricated features though…
Comment by Roy — March 5, 2009 @ 1:28 pm
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly! I’ve gotten my stuff to open in other window pretty easily and I’ve worked out how to get picture to appear. You’re right, the sizing is throwing everything off, but I’m working on it. I’m also working on the tags being about to open two separate locations at once (both an image repository and the information entry) as well as allowing other people to add to the tag cloud (I’m going to link my XML to a database so that it’ll update properly). If I have any other smaller questions, I’ll be sure to ask and if I ever get this working properly, I’ll send you a link. Thanks again!
Comment by Betsy G. — March 6, 2009 @ 3:30 am
Hi there mate,
may-many congrats for this GIANT plugin!
One question: is there a way to keep the cloud moving, without mouse over, maybe at a certain (slow) speed?
Thanks
Comment by Hermann — March 26, 2009 @ 1:06 am
@Hermann: No, there isn’t. It used to just keep spinning no matter what, and the very first feature request I got was to please make that stop. And I agree that it should. People come to your blog to read what you have to say, and they shouldn’t be distracted constantly. Having it stop also frees up your cpu.
Comment by Roy — March 26, 2009 @ 9:22 am
Maybe a very slow speed (user selectable, defaulted to 0, so unless users changes the default-speed-value the cloud will stop moving) could be nice…. attractive but not bothering at the same time.
Comment by Hermann — March 26, 2009 @ 5:40 pm
@Hermann: That is a very tough call to make. Some people are distracted by the smallest amount of movement. But even then, the cpu issue is quite a factor too. On my rather fast PC, WP-Cumulus can sometimes hog up to 25% CPU power.
Comment by Roy — March 26, 2009 @ 7:41 pm
I was thinking that distracted users could miss the wpcumuls show…maybe not noticeing it at all.
What about a timer? Every N seconds, spin the cloud for a few seconds…
users could select: interval, spin duration and speed…also it would be nice to select an accelleration factor..
Am I too persistant?
Comment by Hermann — March 26, 2009 @ 8:46 pm
@hermann: Yes and no
. This is starting to look more and more like a feature that you should implement yourself. I don’t want to add that many options for a feature that almost nobody requests. But this thing is open source, so please feel free to do it yourself 
Comment by Roy — March 27, 2009 @ 9:03 am
i am a a joomla user is there any way i can have this lovelly tag cloud, thanx in advance.
Comment by Fahad — April 6, 2009 @ 12:51 pm
Any chance this will ever be available for Ning sites?
Comment by Hugh — April 10, 2009 @ 8:49 pm
@Hugh: Feel free to have a go at porting it to Ning. There’s a couple of posts on this blog that could get you started.
Comment by Roy — April 11, 2009 @ 12:41 pm
wow! this is wicked cool. i just thunked up a similar 2-d concept and had no idea how / if it could be done, googled “flash video tag cloud”, and, walla!
thanks!
Comment by josh gberg — April 16, 2009 @ 11:04 pm
We usually said in indonesian “KEREEEN” it’s meant COOL,… my blog more fun with your superb works.
thanks again bro..
Comment by oopshey — April 22, 2009 @ 2:43 pm
hi folks
did you send us a cloud request? we would be happy to post one of your great 3-d clouds! or link to any pages on your site that you want us to.
congratulations on your beautiful code!
take care, frank
Comment by frank — May 1, 2009 @ 3:13 am
Hi Roy,
Have read this blog but still don’t get it – How do I prevent for that my cloud-tags font-size get too big? Do I have too many? Is it the size of the actual area? Or….
Please give me an advice
PS. Like your site!
diagonal
Comment by diagonal — May 5, 2009 @ 8:35 am
Hi Diagonal. You can set the font sizes (min and max) directly using the wp_tag_cloud params. You could also use the ‘number’ param to limit the total number of tags to something less than the default 45. If overlapping tags is part of your issue, try setting the ‘distribute evenly’ option too.
Comment by Roy — May 5, 2009 @ 8:43 am
I have some problems if I run the flash Cloud Tag.
Working fine in FF, but IE cannot open the site then!
If I use the regular tagcloud it is working fine!
Any ideas why?
Andre
Comment by Andre — May 10, 2009 @ 9:43 pm
He Andre. Are you using WordPress? The link you used with your comment takes me to what looks like a non-wordpress site… But it sounds like SWFObject is having trouble with the markup errors in your site. Tis is usually the case when one browser fails while others manage to render the page.
Comment by Roy — May 11, 2009 @ 11:26 am
hi Roy i have a problem.. I need to create 3 different tag cloud related to 3 different database. The tags will put inside the database manually throught 3 different forms.
I already created the forms for submit the tags and the database but i can’t connect it with the plugin.. Could you help me?
Sorry but i’m not an expert of php and mysql.. Thank you!
Comment by Ted — May 11, 2009 @ 7:17 pm
Hi Ted. The trick is to output the tag cloud in the same way WordPress does. If you can create a string with several links like the default tag cloud, you should be able to feed those to the Flash movie. I assume you’re read this?
Comment by Roy — May 12, 2009 @ 12:27 pm
This tag cloud is very funny indeed!
Do it respect also accessibility rules?
Comment by Ros — May 14, 2009 @ 11:13 am
I’m afraid accessibility isn’t going to be helped by this, but it does output the regular text cloud (made invisible through CSS), so screen readers may pick up on that.
Comment by Roy — May 14, 2009 @ 2:19 pm
Wonderful !!! Plugins !!!
Wonderful Task!
Comment by M Yakub Mizan — May 16, 2009 @ 6:11 pm
Hello Roy.
I would like to know if this plugin work in other websites that doesn’t use WordPress. If it does, than you mind telling me how?
Thanks.
Comment by Ashley — May 17, 2009 @ 11:00 pm
Hi Ashley. Several people have ported WP-Cumulus to other platforms. I keep a list here. The last entry in that list contains additional documentation that could help you port the project or use it in a static html site.
Comment by Roy — May 19, 2009 @ 7:56 am
Hi Roy,
Awesome creation!!!!
Please can you advise How i can adjust or edit the code to make it compatible with iWeb 08, probably to enter it as a Snippet…?
Thanks
Comment by celestial elf — May 20, 2009 @ 9:39 am
Hi ‘Elf’. I’m not familiar with the specifics of iWeb ’08, but this page might help: http://www.roytanck.com/2008/05/19/how-to-repurpose-my-tag-cloud-flash-movie/
Comment by Roy — May 20, 2009 @ 1:03 pm
Excellent and Awesome creation.
Comment by Sashi — June 12, 2009 @ 8:26 am
can this be applied to blogger too?
Comment by Daisy — June 13, 2009 @ 12:24 am
Great Plugin! Awesome.
I realized that there is a funny data output for google like that:
***
[FLASH]
Tag
Dateiformat: Shockwave Flash
Tag.
http://www.mietboerse.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-cumulus/tagcloud.swf?r=6836843 –
***
Of course that is not very sexy and does not contain helpful information.
Is there a way to fix that?
Problem to solve:
- it is listed as link but will not work when click it – should link to search list where tag is used
- it has not information in it – should name the tag name itself and if possible a description note
Thanks for reply and help on that.
Regards
Comment by Inspirator — June 14, 2009 @ 3:52 pm
Hi Stephan. I’m not quite sure what you’re saying, but it looks like you told Google to either look for SWF files or for a tagcloud. That the movie gets found at all is somewhat of an unwanted side effect. It countains no data, and isn’t very helpful when you’re looking for content. But my plugin does output the regular tag cloud too, so all the keywords will be in your page, visible to search engines, and linking to the appropriate WordPress tag page.
Comment by Roy — June 15, 2009 @ 8:59 am
can you guide me please.. how to change round to square…. where i can chage it.
i want 900widthx100height size flash tag cloud… its possible to make ?? please sir guide me
Comment by krahamath — June 17, 2009 @ 8:49 am
Can this be used with a standard website or in my case, Shopify?
Comment by ignacio Z — July 12, 2009 @ 12:30 am
Dear Roy,
What an awesome tag cloud!!! I have tried to make it work on my wordpress.org (freslhy 2 theme). Its driving me nuts for weeks now. I have activated the plug in but I get the message: “WP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by Roy Tanck requires Flash Player 9 or better.” on my blog.
I have the latest flash, and have strolled your FAQ and other fora for an answer. I validated with validator.w3.org
Any idea what might be wrong?
thank you in advance
Thieu
Comment by Thieu — July 17, 2009 @ 2:18 pm
Hi Thieu. Looks like you got it working?
Comment by Roy — July 18, 2009 @ 6:26 pm
Hi Ignacio. There is a plain html version, but it makes more sense to tie this to your CMS’s tagging or category system. As far as I know there’s no Shopify port yet.
Comment by Roy — July 18, 2009 @ 6:49 pm
Hi Roy,
it’s a really piece of work but I’ve had a problem with accents. My problem is not that they’re not showing, they are. I actually use the ezcumulus extension for eZPublish but I guess the problem is not related to eZ.
this is a part of my source (and it seems fine)
so.addVariable(“tagcloud”, “Asnières Budget Plan de la ville Sébastien Pietrasanta conseil municipal maire “);
and for instance, if i click on “Asnières”, instead of /content/keyword/asni%C3%A8res (which is the correct urlencoding), it redirects to /content/keyword/asni%E8res, hence a blank page…
ps : I’ve found this (in french) http://forum.dotclear.net/viewtopic.php?id=34559&p=4 where the probklem seems to be mentionned but couldn’t find anything here. (btw, the accents do appear in the flash, only the links with accented words are corrupted in some way)..
Any ideas?
Thank you
Gwenal
Comment by Gwenal — July 28, 2009 @ 11:03 am
hi
1.i wanna flash 3d tag cloud in Unicode support features to add my blogger
(it’s grate idea 4u for develop Unicode supported 3d tag cloud)
2. how to add 3d tag cloud to goggle blogger
thx
chamara
Comment by Chamara — August 15, 2009 @ 5:54 am
Das ist ja wohl die geilste Tag-Clouud, die ich je gesehen habe! die wurde sofort auf meiner Seite verbastelt!
Mach weiter so! Super Arbeit!
Comment by Jutzi — August 15, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
Lovely plugin!
I’m working on a site that could really benefit from this plugin as long as I can call it in 2 different modes:
1. Show only tags in the cloud when displayed on tag archive pages
2. Show only categories in the cloud when displayed on category archive pages
In all cases, I’d like to use the theme code approach (wp_cumulus_insert). BTW – All instances of the cloud will be in the main body of the page (no sidebar usage).
How do I get there?
Comment by Gilad — August 18, 2009 @ 10:53 pm
Hi Gilad. Too bad you’re not using shortcodes. That would have made this very easy. The wp_cumulus_insert function does not allow you to override parameters, so you’ll need to hack the plugin quite extensively to get what you want. The function that generates the output does accept variables, so you could try to forward them somehow. I won’t be able to guide you much further though without getting my hands dirty (for which I lack time currently).
Comment by Roy — August 20, 2009 @ 7:08 pm
hello roy,thats great to see the tag cloud,i dont want to use by using wordpress,can it be possible to write using javascript/jquery/ajax.i have developed all other pages by using simple html
Comment by Roopa — August 21, 2009 @ 1:35 pm
Brilliant stuff !
I’m integrating it on a dynamic page into a ASP.net website. The XML is generated on the fly from dynamic database content.
How do I force FLASH to refresh the content each time, and really show new content rather than the cache version ?
Comment by Mike — August 25, 2009 @ 1:09 pm
Hi Roy,
Nice Tagcloud you’ve here! It works fine with HTML/ PHP/ ASP websites. Now, I’m building my own Flash-based weblog/ portfolio/ photosite and I really would like to use your Tagcloud embedded in de Flash website.
I tried importing the .SWF into my Flashwebsite. It comes up with some result, but not the result I’d like.
An error occurs: “This file has been protected by its author and cannot be imported”. Is there a way to load this SWF into my timeline as a movieclip? Or isn’t this possible at all?
Hopefully you’re willing to help me with this problem!
Thanks in advance,
Frits
Comment by Frits — September 2, 2009 @ 10:46 am
Hi Frits. The sources for the Flash movie are available under GPL at wordpress.org. However, the movie is not intended to be loaded into another Flash project, and you’d need to thoroughly rewrite it to get it working. The most pressing issues are the flashvars (which would change scope) and the scaling algorithm (which is based on the stage size).
Comment by Roy — September 2, 2009 @ 3:07 pm
hi..nice…can i use this component on the flex?
Comment by aura_anar — September 8, 2009 @ 8:38 am
Hi Roy.
How difficult would it be to replace your sphere with a torus ?
I’ve been doing some digging and reckon that a torus has a larger surface area than a sphere, depending on the diameter of the tube.
The trouble would be choosing how the mouse input moved the words around.
Great plugin all the same.
Regards,
Cam.
Comment by Cameron Logie — September 9, 2009 @ 12:57 pm
hi .. buddy .. how i can make that tag?
Comment by Dd — September 14, 2009 @ 10:20 am
great job.. i look this one for my wordpress blog.. thanks
Comment by saphire — September 21, 2009 @ 12:40 pm
Having no luck in geting it to display in IE8 any suggestions…
Again, thanks for a great plugin…
Note! the cloud does not display on this page either…
Mike
Comment by Mike — September 23, 2009 @ 10:59 pm
the application is great, but how how do you can do to make the link will be in another tab?
Comment by pataguan — September 24, 2009 @ 12:26 am
bro….i went cloud tag.how can i get that.i want upload my site.pls
Comment by zaythu — September 24, 2009 @ 12:25 pm
Hi Zaytu. See this page for instructions on how to put Cumulus on non-WP web pages.
Comment by Roy — September 24, 2009 @ 2:17 pm
Hi Pataguan. See this page for info on setting a different target frame.
Comment by Roy — September 24, 2009 @ 2:23 pm
Hello Roy, I’m trying to put the Tags Cloud on my forum, link: http://forumdownloads.forumbrasil.net/ only that it does not appear as keywords, how do I put them in the tags cloud? Thank you.
Comment by Renato — September 27, 2009 @ 5:57 pm
Wonderful – works fine in Blogger with some small tweaks too.
Comment by Andrew Long — September 28, 2009 @ 12:02 pm
hi,
Could you please suggest me how to include this in a webpage ? like inserting particular tag into html file and linking js or swf file… something like this…. Please…
Thanks
Ravikumar V.
Comment by Ravikumar V. — September 29, 2009 @ 8:39 am
Renato, have you read this?
Comment by Roy — September 29, 2009 @ 9:29 am
Ho Ravikumar. Have you seen this page? that’s assuming you’re not using WordPress, if you are it’s as easy as downloading the plugin through your admin panel.
Comment by Roy — September 29, 2009 @ 9:55 am
hi Roy,
First I would like to thank you for your quick reply. Yes I am not using wordpress I am using simple html (xhtml). is there any way to use this code without putting the php file ??
Thanks
Ravikumar V.
Comment by Ravikumar V. — September 29, 2009 @ 10:13 am
Ravikumar, the example files on that page are html. No need for PHP.
Comment by Roy — September 29, 2009 @ 1:17 pm
Hi, nice plugin, I am going to install it, too
regards,
Łukasz
Comment by Lukasz — September 29, 2009 @ 3:37 pm
Very smooth plugin. I like that it adds a certain dynamic feeling to an otherwise static part of the page (sidebar).
Good work Roy!
Comment by Derek — October 5, 2009 @ 3:27 pm
Hi Ray. Your tag cloud is a hit! I wanted to know if you could put a (very faint) background image in front of the cloud so that it could visually blend in to the website (using say a colour or graphic). Take a look at http://www.sworphegar.com. I’d like it to have a (very very faint) bicycle icon behind it. only if you get to this mail
Comment by Edwin James Lynch — October 8, 2009 @ 11:16 am
Edwin,
Although I am not Ray, I believe I read your answer.
The development version of WP-Cumulus which is down-loadable from here: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-cumulus.zip allows editing of the base “fla” file. That’s a great place to embed your static (or even moving) bicycle watermark.
It also enables the same widget control options once installed into WordPress.
I hope this helps out.good luck!
Comment by Jason In Las Vegas — October 8, 2009 @ 5:48 pm
This a really amazing plugin. Have you or anyone else had any luck using it in sharepoint with a tag list?
Thank you!
Comment by Charles — October 19, 2009 @ 10:49 pm
how i can use this animated tag cloud for my tumblr blog ???????
Comment by andix — November 7, 2009 @ 7:04 pm
Andix, that’s a good question. I’m not familiar with Tumblr and its API. There isn’t currently a port available that I’m aware of, but since WP_Cumulus is open source you’re welcome to create your own.
Comment by Roy — November 8, 2009 @ 9:48 am
Great plugin and fantastic that you made the FLA open source! Thank you!
Comment by Rob Cubbon — November 9, 2009 @ 9:03 pm
Great plugin dude…Im gonna use this for sure on my site! thanks!
Comment by Alex — November 13, 2009 @ 3:24 pm
Hi Roy,
I have got one issue with your tag cloud plugin in IE7 and IE6
I added the wp-cumulus tag cloud plugin in a jquery based lightbox popup box and it does not seem to work for IE6 and IE7.It shows blank in these respective browsers.right click shows the possible flash settings but no tag cloud seen.
Rest all browser works fine except IE 7 and IE6.
Tried all the possible fixes but still no success. Any help would be appreciated.
thanks,
Mohnish
Comment by Mohnish Ghodekar — November 18, 2009 @ 4:59 am
Hi Mohnish. Did you check the page for markup errors using validator.w3.org? In most cases where different browsers show different results there are XML parsing errors on the page.
Comment by Roy — November 18, 2009 @ 12:08 pm
Hello. I am just delighted with the cloud of tags. I have a question. Why this cloud does not appear Russian text? When I write in English everything is fine, but when the Russian, then what is displayed characters or nothing. And what a font is installed in this cloud? Maybe my computer is not set font that you want to display the Russian text.
Please answer my question. With impatience I shall wait for a response.
Comment by Sergey — November 20, 2009 @ 11:17 am
Hi Sergey. Please see this tutorial on how to add support for your language.
Comment by Roy — November 20, 2009 @ 2:24 pm
Many thanks for your advice, now I will try.
Comment by Sergey — November 20, 2009 @ 2:38 pm
I use the editor WYSIWYG Web Builder 6 for creating Web pages, and I downloaded a cloud of tags with the extension. wbx I downloaded it from http://www.gewuenschtewebsite.de (GOEMO_TagCloud.wbx full name of the file). And on your page with tutorials laid file with the extension. PHP. So my question: can this file to add the Russian language?
Comment by Sergey — November 20, 2009 @ 2:59 pm
Hi Sergey. I have tutorial about adding support for non-Latin languages, but you’d have to contact the author of the wbx file to see if a modifies version of the latest tag cloud movie will work with his project.
Comment by Roy — November 24, 2009 @ 9:44 am
Hiya Roy I wanted to ask you a quastion on this tag cloud. I have the tag cloud setup here http://blog.onlinemediadirect.co.uk as you can see I have changes the colours but I cannot increase the size ? I have made the adjustments in the back office but no luck . Please could you advise me why it is not changing when I increase the size in the backend of wordpress.
Comment by Garry — December 2, 2009 @ 5:47 pm
I love this plug-in! Good job.
Comment by Adam — December 5, 2009 @ 1:37 am
I’d like to use it as animation (with predefined items, not loaded from xml but built in the AS code…) in a Adobe Presentation course. Can you give me some advice on how to modify you code (if it is possible…).
Very special thanks for you unvaluable work.
Comment by Vivaldo Moscatelli — December 9, 2009 @ 2:10 pm
Vivaldo, I guess the best start is to get the example files on this page.
Comment by Roy — December 10, 2009 @ 11:17 am
hi roy!
really nice plug in!
look i have a problem: in one tag link i want to pass a class =”iframe” attribut for my color box, but it does not work. flash seams not to pass it. have you an idea how i can do that?
thanks
byk
Comment by benny — December 11, 2009 @ 8:57 pm
Benny, the flash movie doesn’t use or support CSS styling.
Comment by Roy — December 14, 2009 @ 8:22 pm
thank you roy!
do you know how to change the as3 code? maybe with the externalinterface comand? i use flashcloud from artviper.net
Comment by benny — December 16, 2009 @ 7:40 pm
I’ve not used Flash’s CSS support much, so I wouldn’t be able to help you, but this looks like a god place to start: http://drawlogic.com/2007/06/01/loading-external-css-stylesheets-in-flash9-as3-cs3/.
Comment by Roy — December 17, 2009 @ 9:52 am
hi roy!
if the script gets the color and the style attribute it should also get the rel or the class attribute.
i have to pass one of this attributs to a javascript (jquery). i tried now something like:
private function mouseUpHandler( e:MouseEvent ):void {
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest( _node[ +"@href" +"@rel"] );
in the web i found something for as2:
bt1.onPress = function() {
ExternalInterface.call(“$.fn.colorbox({href:’
http://www.bottero.com.br/images/modelos/ref_108503_lg.png‘, open:true})”);
but i can´t adapt it for your script.
thanks!
Comment by benny — December 21, 2009 @ 10:52 pm
Roy,
Looking for any live examples of the plugin – in any script – running images apposed to text. Creating a website to use a similar feature on the home screen but with images. Would love to see an example if possible. Reading through posts i’ve read many times the use of images but no examples.
Comment by J.B. — December 22, 2009 @ 1:11 am
J.B. Did you see this post?
Comment by Roy — December 22, 2009 @ 9:58 am
Thanks for all your knowledge sharing! I am scouring looking for the clever .fla file so I re-engineer. At some point will be posting on http://www.techthinktank.org. Come post in the new year! we’d love to have you.
Comment by Amy Seidman — December 27, 2009 @ 3:31 am
The following tag in the cloud comes up as boxes for me – http://www.roytanck.com/tag/entrepreneurship/
Thanks
Anoop
Comment by Anoop John — January 5, 2010 @ 9:01 am
I checked it on FF 3 with FP10 on ubuntu.
Thanks
Anoop
Comment by Anoop John — January 5, 2010 @ 9:01 am
Hi Roy, I would like to create a standalone, offline, on a document, and working 3D tag cloud (with hardcoded tags in the swa flash source).
Is there a way to get this ?
Regards
Comment by Fabrice — January 7, 2010 @ 5:43 pm
I really would like to know how I can use this in html? I am only seing how to use it in wordpress. Can it be done and how?
Comment by madseason — January 7, 2010 @ 7:56 pm
I should have my cloud tag up today. It hasnt been easy. Yhanks.
Comment by madseason — January 13, 2010 @ 6:15 pm
is possible change the background-color?
Comment by LEON — January 16, 2010 @ 2:58 am
HI,
i need 3d flash tag cloud for Datalife enginer 8.0 can you help me?
Comment by KAKHA13 — January 17, 2010 @ 12:05 pm
Hi there,
nice work really! But i would be interesting in using it in Ruby, especially with rails. Is there a possibility to use this really nice tag-cloud without wordpress and php ?
Greetz,
Nils
Comment by Nils — January 19, 2010 @ 6:51 pm
Hi Nils. Yes.
Comment by Roy — January 21, 2010 @ 9:28 am
LEON: Yes. Simply open the widget and type in the value you want.
Comment by Roy — January 21, 2010 @ 9:45 am