Improved caching on tag cloud widget for WordPress
January 3rd, 2007 6:09:27 pm pst by 
Sterling Camden
Version 2.1, for use with Jerome’s Keywords plugin version 2.
I’ve been putting off updating the tag cloud widget for some time, because Jerome had indicated that he would include it in his plugin in a future version. That hasn’t happened yet, so I wanted to add a couple of new features now:
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You can now control the expiration of the cached display. It still defaults to 900 seconds, but you can alter it to be anything you wish.
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Besides releasing the cache when the widget controls are updated, it also releases the cache when a post is edited, saved, or published.
Please let me know if you experience any difficulties, or if you have suggestions for further enhancements.
Happy tagging!
UPDATE: added error check for when Jerome’s Keywords 2.0 is not activated. Get the latest version here.
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Jerome is MIA. Any idea what happened to him? I was hoping 2.0 would have been released before he went AWOL
I don’t know, Mike. Jerome seems to spend a lot of time away from blogging. I was expecting him to release 2.0 by now also, since he’s already started talking about the next version.
I got this error after activated the plugin.
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/rangwa5/public_html/wp-content/plugins/keywords-tagcloud.php on line 53
Aoyoyo, did you install and activate the Jerome’s Keywords plugin first? I suppose I should add some error checking there.
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Fixed it. Thanks for reporting the error, Aoyoyo. If you do have JK installed, make sure it’s the 2.0 beta version, or else use this version of the widget.
Hi first thanks for your nice work, it would be better if it has this features:
Most popular color
Most popular font size
Least popular color
Least popular font size
Font size units
Thanks for the suggestions, Mazdakam.
You can specify the font sizes in Options/Jerome’s Keywords/Tag Cloud Display using the Tag count scaling maximum and minimum fields. These values will be used in the “size” attribute of the “font” element.
I’ll consider adding color specification to a future version, but in the mean time you can style that yourself using CSS applied to the specific class of each font size (“keywordn“). Do a View Source to see what I mean.
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