migueljds

<p>This plugin displays a ‘tag cloud’ of all the people in your community who have contributed to our blog by commenting.<br />
The more comments someone has made on your blog the bigger and bolder their tag. Thus, it’s a tag cloud of community participants for your blog.<br />
You also have options to customize the community cloud to your blog and needs.<br />
People can see how big your community is in a more visually impactful way, as well as being able to see who the major contributors are compared to the people who just comment once off.</p>
<h3>Upgrading</h3>
<p>If you’re upgrading from a previous version of the community cloud,<br />
you’ll need to deactivate and reactivate the plugin after uploading the new files.</p>
<h3></h3>
<ul>
<li>More Social – This version now includes optional “social” hCards. The plugin will check the website/blog URL of each of the commenters in your cloud and if they have an hCard it will include it on the commenters link.</li>
<li>More Efficient – The plugin is a lot more efficient than the last version. The cloud is no longer generate and displayed in real time. The cloud is prebuilt on activation and continually maintained as people comment on your blog.</li>
<li>More Accurate – Instead of filtering out commenters by name (different people might comment with the same name), comments are now filtered out using commenter’s email address, which is a lot more accurate. There is also an option to exclude, certain link URLs from your cloud.<br />
1.2.3:</li>
</ul>
<h3></h3>
<ul>
<li>Improved comment count display, to allow comment counts to appear in tooltip text, in the link, or not at all</li>
<li>removed old url validate function and replaced it with something more simple</li>
<li>fixed font colors, so if you leave out max. font color and min. font color it falls back to your theme’s default link colors rather than reverting to black<br />
1.2.2:</li>
</ul>
<h3></h3>
<ul>
<li>Added the option to specify your own link seperator character</li>
<li>Option to display comment authors that haven’t entered website URLs as well as those that have</li>
<li>Show number of comments author has posted in link tooltip text<br />
1.2.1:</li>
</ul>
<h3></h3>
<ul>
<li>Allow plugin files to work in any subdirectory. It used to be that the plugin only functioned properly in the plugins/community_cloud/ directory<br />
1.2:</li>
</ul>
<h3></h3>
<ul>
<li>added sidebar widget</li>
<li>added option link back to the author of the plugin</li>
<li>added the option to set your comment threshold (default 1)</li>
<li>added option to order your cloud by most recent commenter to earliest, top commenter to lowest, and random (default)<br />
1.1:</li>
</ul>
<h3></h3>
<ul>
<li>added mysql_escape_string for security<br />
1.0:</li>
</ul>
<h3></h3>
<ul>
<li>initial release</li>
</ul>
<p>Have Fun.</p>
<p>Miguel dos Santos<br />
Your Group of Web AddiCT(s);<br />
http://www.webaddict.co.za</p>


Community Cloud Plugin

This plugin displays a 'tag cloud' of all the people in your community who have contributed to our blog by commenting.

azurecurve

<p>The plugin integrates with the standard WordPress tag cloud, but allows tags to be excluded and easy control of other settings such as min and max font sizes, the sort order and number of tags to include.</p>
<p>This plugin is multisite compatible.</p>
<p>This plugin supports language translations. If you want to translate this plugin please sent the .po and .mo files to development.translations@azurecurve.co.uk for inclusion in the next version (full credit will be given). The .pot fie is in the languages folder of the plugin and can also be downloaded from the plugin page on http://development.azurecurve.co.uk.</p>


azurecurve Tag Cloud

I love Software which intelligently uses already available resources - in this case, the WordPress Tag-Cloud function, with all the options provided by the function but not settable in the standard widget. Sure there are other tag cloud plugins out there, but in comparison to this one they are sure going to bloat your frontend code!

A great boon for MultiSite users is that this plugin offers global settings in the network admin area. Then each site can either opt to use those, or set its own. Now that's really sweet!

Finally, the support from Ian, the author, has been superb - fixes done within hours even at the weekend! For my part I pronounce the new version "bug free" and was glad to help polish a great product.

Thanks Ian!



Minimalistic way for a nice Tag Cloud, own MultSite options

Displays a tag cloud with easy control of settings and exclusion of tags from the cloud.

Community Cloud Plugin vs azurecurve Tag Cloud