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Minimalist Tag Cloud is a WordPress plugin that allows you to display your website’s most popular tags, categories or custom taxonomies as a widget or using a shortcode. 
The plugin styles the tag cloud in a minimalist style with the option to include tag count.
You can use Minimalist Tag Cloud as a widget or shortcode.
There are a number of options that you can customise:
<ul>
<li>number of items (tags) to show</li>
<li>type of taxonomies (tags / categories / custom taxonomies) to show </li>
<li>include/exclude a list of tags</li>
<li>smallest and largest font sizes</li>
<li>font size unit</li>
<li>display format (flat / list)</li>
<li>flat format separator</li>
<li>order by and order</li>
<li>show/hide tag count</li>
</ul>
Check ‘Installation’ tab for details on how to embed the shortcode.

Minimalist Tag Cloud

Very nice little widget. After looking through all the other tag cloud plugins this is the one I found most flexible.

It just needs a bit of styling on the way it displays on the backend. But it's not important. It does its job!

Thank you very much :D

Great customization!

Customisable widget and shortcode to display tag cloud with option to show tag count anywhere you want.

Jrack Wolfe

The best and most flexible tag cloud generator for <a href="https://wordpress.org/" title="Your favorite software" rel="ugc">WordPress</a> sites. Easy to implement with shortcode, easy to style and can show a cloud of lists of various taxonomies. It can even display manually created lists with hyperlinks.
Wolfe Candy Tag Cloud is part of the Wolfe Candy suite of plugins that all work together to make <a href="https://wordpress.org/" title="Your favorite software" rel="ugc">WordPress</a> site creation that much easier.
Major features include:
<ul>
<li>Configable style options using short-code, URL POST arguments or default settings or factory defaults.</li>
<li>Default values make calling a cloud easy.</li>
<li>Styles and order can be randomised.</li>
<li>Size of tags can be displayed according to rating scores.</li>
<li>Any font that is supported by the browser can be used.</li>
<li>Insert anywhere within posts or pages.</li>
<li>Show a cloud of any taxonomy including post_tag, category or any custom taxonomy.</li>
<li>Programatically or manually create a cloud based on ANY list.</li>
</ul>
It is completely FREE – development and maintenance by the Wolfe Candy team headed by Jrack Wolfe is funded through <a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DY2RMD3J4SR3Q" title="Donate to Wolfe Candy" rel="nofollow ugc">donations</a> from generous users.

Wolfe Candy Tag Cloud

The reason this was developed is that other tag clouds didn’t give me the flexibility I needed for my website.

It provides the flexibility I need

The best and most flexible tag cloud generator. Easy to implement, easy to style. It can even display manually created lists with hyperlinks.

Minimalist Tag Cloud vs Wolfe Candy Tag Cloud