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Most Popular Tags is a WordPress plugin that allows you to display your blog’s most popular tags or categories as a sidebar widget. The plugin takes advantage of the new Widget API introduced in WordPress 2.8, allowing multiple instances of the same widget, each with it’s own unique configuration. You can specify how many tags/categories/link categories to show, the size of the smallest and largest ones, which unit and format to use as well as advanced ordering options.

Most Popular Tags

Most Popular Tags is a plugin that displays your WordPress site's most popular tags, categories and custom taxonomies as a sidebar widget.

This plugin allows the creation of tag clouds based on GIF images.
Each word in the taglist is converted to an image. The images may vary in size, orientation and color. The images are then positioned in a condense way, resulting in <a href="http://www.wordle.net" title="Wordle" rel="nofollow ugc">Wordle</a>-like tag-clouds.
To use the image-style tag-clouds set the format parameter of <code>wp_tag_cloud</code> to <code>image</code>. For convenience a shortcode is provided <code>[imagecloud]</code> that will insert the tag-cloud with the image format option set anywhere within a post or page. The imagecloud shortcode will accept all arguments that <code>wp_tag_cloud</code> accepts plus the few additional ones described below.
To control the image creation a few extra options are provided that may be provided with <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_tag_cloud" title="Template Tags/wp_tag_cloud" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>wp_tag_cloud</code></a> or the <code>[imagecloud]</code> shortcode. These are:
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<li>fgcolor: The color of the texts in the images. Must be in the format “#AABBCC”.</li>
<li>fgcolor2: A second foreground color. When this is set, the tag text color will be a color between fgcolor and fgcolor2, depending on the tag count (occurance). Must be in the format “#AABBCC”.</li>
<li>bgcolor: The background color of the texts. Must be in the format “#AABBCC”.</li>
<li>transparent: set to true if you wish to make the image transparent. Do not forget to set the bgcolor also to prevent strange text-edge colors as the texts will be anti-aliased.</li>
<li>margin: set to the amount of pixels added around each tag.</li>
<li>font: set to the file location or url of the TrueType font (TTF) file to be used to create the tags.</li>
<li>percentup: percentage of words that is to be rotated 90 degrees.</li>
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ImageCloud

This plugin adds a new format to the wp_tag_cloud function, allowing for image based -- Wordle-like -- tag clouds.

Most Popular Tags vs ImageCloud