Ultimate Category Cloud 2.0
Version 2 is ready to roll, and compatible with your Wordpress 2.1 blog!
This is a modified version of the Weighted Category Cloud by Matt Kingston. I wanted it to be able to colour each category differently, in a similar way to how the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin coloured tags in its cloud. After Studying the UTW code, and playing around with the Category Cloud code I was able to achieve the desired result.
Installation
Note: If you are using this plugin with the Redoable theme, all you need to do is upload it to your plugins directory and activate it.
- Download the zip file and extract the contents.
- Upload ultimate_category_cloud.php to your plugins directory.
- Activate the plugin from within your admin area.
- Add this code to any page one which you want to display the Ultimate Category Cloud.
<?php
$weighted = 0; // set to ‘1’ to turn font size weighting on.
$colored = 1; // set to ‘0’ to turn font color weighting off.
$minfont = 70;
$maxfont = 250;
$fontunit = “%”;
$lightcol = “#FFFFFF”;
$darkcol = “#666666”;
$category_ids_to_exclude = “1”; // list of any categories you want to exclude from the cloud, seperated by ’ , ‘.
weighted_categories($weighted, $colored, $minfont, $maxfont, $fontunit, $lightcol, $darkcol, $category_ids_to_exclude);
?> - Make adjustments to the variables to suit. If you are using this plugin with the Redoable Theme, the defaults are the recommended values.
- Enjoy.
View Code
Click here to open ultimate_category_cloud.phps in a new window.
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Changelog
- 29/01/2007
- Version 2 Released!
Substantially re-written to work with Wordpress 2.1.
Code that handles the ‘colouring’ of the cloud has been simplified and improved. - 01/01/2007
- Category links should now work from all pages, not just the home page.
Rechuked Buttons 1.0
Rechuked buttons 1.0 plugin is not currently compatible with Wordpress 2.1
This plugin is a modified version of Sawchuk Buttons by Kirk Montgomery. It adds additional buttons to the WYSIWYG text editor to insert the tags for some of the special styles included with Redoable.
Installation
- Download the zip file and extract the contents.
- Upload the entire ‘rechuked_buttons’ folder to your plugins directory.
- Activate the plugin from within your admin area.
- Now when you edit or create posts/pages you will have additional buttons to easily insert the special styles included with Redoable.
- Enjoy.
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Redo-Recent-Links 1.0-beta
Please note this is only a beta release, if you find any bugs please post details in the support forum.
Redo-recent-links is a modified version of wp-recent-links by RebelPixel. It has been modified to exclude links from the post count in the loop. ie. So if you set your blog to display 10 posts per page, your will get 10 posts, plus your links.
While this plugin is in beta, it is recommended that it is only used with Redoable 1.1. Only use it with other themes if you are sure you know what you are doing…
Installation
For more detail, see the included readme.txt
- Download the zip file and extract the contents.
- Upload redo-recent-links.php to your plugins directory.
- Upload wp-recent-links.php and wp-recentlinks-rss2.php to your Wordpress root directory.
- Upload recent-links.php to your wp-admin directory
- Activate the plugin from within your admin area.
- Enjoy.
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Hi!
The download link is not working for the Cloud Plugin. I did indeed just copy the code, installed the plugin, and then tried to paste the code into the Code editor on a new Page.
However, even though the Rich Text Editor is deactivated, and the code “sticks”, I still do not get the expected Cloud.
What could I be missing?
Thanks Peter
Many thanks for the upgrade!!
After my 2.1 upgrade this was the inly thing I missed
cheerz Ciro
Peter: That would happne because the editor in Wordpress is just for text, even if you paste code (other than basic html) into it, it will just be interpreted as text adn not as code.
Currently this plugin doesn’t have to option to just include it inside a post. The best option would be to add it to a sidebar, or to edit the template for the page you want to add it to.
Hope that helps.
Curdaneta: Thanks, I’m gad you like it.
Thanks Dean for such an excellent work in both plugin and theme.
I’m experiencing some xtrange behaviour with the ultimate category cloud plugin, because I’ve installed it and there are no shades of grey, aparently. Everything in the cloud is white (as opposed to the previous version of plugin and theme).
You can check it at:
http://www.photoshopia.net (new version; redoable 1.1 and UCC 2)
http://www.photoshopia.com (old version; previous versions of both)
BTW, thanks for including in the new version the change I proposed about the single post display.
Great job!!
I just checked your source code, and the colouring is there, but it just isn’t displaying…bit wierd. I have a think see if I can work out why…very wierd indeed.
No problems, it was a good suggestion.
Hi Dean
Thanks for theme and plugins. But i have a big problem, i like to use the coloured tag options like coloured class (information, download etc) but dont work, and the source code is there. Can u see that? lostandfound.hu/csy
thanks for all
i see any error in source-code…
when i use that tag: Text here
this will be in source, and database: Text here
anybody have any workaround or anybody knows what is it?
csy: see my reply in the support forum.
Ultimate category cloud is simple superb! i’ll use it in my new wordpress project.
Again: great job!!! Now I installed Redoable theme and Ultimate Category Cloud 2.0 and activated the plugin (UTW also) and want to configure it, so that my categories are shown in the sidebar. But nothing changes - where I have to do the next step??? Thank you again!!!
Looking at your site it appear that you are using the sidebar modules. You need to add the “category block module” to display the Category Cloud in the sidebar.
Hope that helps.
Wow - so fast answer! But I had activated the catgeory widget, which is the standard widget: http://maennerseiten.de/categories-widget.gif
Ok, so you’re using the sidebar widgets plugin, does it have a widget that allows you to add a piece of code (html or php, preferably php)? If so use that and copy the code example from the top of this page. Sorry for the trouble.
@ Rechucked Buttons
Here’s a plugin using buttonsnap that works in WP2.1 - maybe something you could look into if you wanna patch up your plugin.
-> http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/ (v. 4.0.0)
Thanks, I’ll have a look at that.
I’m trying to use UCC but when unzipping it I get two errors: “Unexpected end of archive” and “The archive is either in unknown format or damaged”.
I’ve tried downloading it a couple of times now, still the same problem.
Suggestions?
Ignore that last post; I downloaded it again, erased the original, uploaded it, and all was well.
My mistake!
Hi! I’ve just started updating my blog, and I think I’ll be using your excelent theme!
I have one feature request for Redo-Recent-Links: It would be very helpful if it could automatically fetch links and descriptions from a/several bookmarking sites/feeds. The way it is now I have to click two bookmarklets, and fill out the information two times, one for bookmarking a page with Ma.gnolia, and one for adding it to my link log. If this could be done in one operation instead that would save me a lot of hassle! Thanks!
wp-content/themes/redoable 1.1/functions.php on line 9
ok….is there a comment to go with that or do I have to guess?
I noticed that the rechuked buttons work on the write blog post screen but do not work on the edit post screen.
Just in case that helps to isolate the issues with rechuked.
Richard Wing
Ehm, so.. Are you going to answer my question sometime..?
Sorry børge, I must have missed your comment.
I know that there are a couple of plugins that will display your links from other sites such as delicious, magnoila etc, but they don’t exactly solve your problem.
Its an interesting idea and I will look into what might be involved to get it working with redo-recent-links.
Thanks Richard, I’ll keep in mind when I’m working on it.
the links are not showing up in the loop. also, the permalinks are looksing for a recent-links folder…… don’t have one.
Hi there - great plugin but is there a way to make it vary the size as well as the colour/opacity. I’m torn between my current Category Tagging plugin (which does the size - http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/category-tagging-plugin/) and this one (which does the colour/opacity).
Please ignore (even delete) that last comment… I’d been looking at the example to the right but now I see I can set $weighted = 1
This plugin rocks :-)
Hi Dean,
Do you have any idea why the Ultimate Category Cloud 2.0 doens’t work with WP2.2.1?
My catagory section only displays “No Categories” even after I installed the UCC on your Redoable Theme. I have spent hours trying to figure out what the problem is and still nothing, any help would be appreciated.
As Always - Thanks.
Hi Jake, make sure your are using the latest version of UCC, Version 3 should work with the version of Wordpress that you are using. You can grab the latest version if you go to my homepage, sorry I really should have updated this page when I released the new version.
Thank you post
nice plugin here mate. Very useful