Thomas Schmall

Tag clouds and Archives are useful for visitors, but also for search engines to find and index what topics your blog relates to. “Post Tags and Archives” makes it easy to add Tag Clouds or Archives to posts and pages via shortcodes. 
Before, you could only put it in the sidebar or widgets. That could hurt the search ranking for relevant terms and crowds the sidebar. So one either had to truncate the cloud and archive – or get rid of them (or use some more complicated trickery). 
Now you can just drop them in your posts and change the look easily via the options.
<h3>Options</h3>
Should be self-explanatory.
The advanced features: Please be careful with the HTML parts. 
The archive-format setting “options for dropdown-menu” is for people who want to setup forms. You have to add a proper form yourself – with select/post and all. Then this feature will add all archives (in the type you chose) as 
<h3>TODO</h3>
<ul>
<li>add products tag support 
Probably like this: 
$args = array( 
 ‘number’ => 15, 
 ‘taxonomy’ => ‘product_tag’ 
); 
return $args;Theoretically functional: from WP 1.5 (most features from: 2.5. “separator”-option from 2.9, “Tags-Order” for tags feature only from 3.5)</li>
</ul>

Post Tags and Archives

Display the Tag Cloud or the Archive directly in posts and pages, and change their look in the options.

azurecurve

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.
This plugin is multisite compatible.
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.

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.

Post Tags and Archives vs azurecurve Tag Cloud