Thomas Schmall

<p>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.<br />
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).<br />
Now you can just drop them in your posts and change the look easily via the options.</p>
<h3>Options</h3>
<p>Should be self-explanatory.</p>
<p>The advanced features: Please be careful with the HTML parts.<br />
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 </p>
<h3>TODO</h3>
<ul>
<li>add products tag support<br />
Probably like this:<br />
$args = array(<br />
    ‘number’ => 15,<br />
    ‘taxonomy’ => ‘product_tag’<br />
);<br />
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.

yakuphan

<p>Random Tag Cloud allows you to display your site’s tags. It works just like a regular tags cloud, but you can customize it. If you set, it gets your tags by selecting randomly.<br />
Of course, you can set other settings; font sizes, number of tags to display, how to order etc.<br />
Now, you can add a link to your tags archive page by writing its ID. It adds a ‘Show All Tags’ link.</p>
<h3>Options</h3>
<p>Widget’s options allow you to change your tag cloud’s displaying.</p>
<h4>Title</h4>
<p>Your tag cloud’s title on your sidebar.</p>
<h4>Number of Tags</h4>
<p>Controls the total number of tags in your cloud.</p>
<h4>Font Unit</h4>
<p>What unit to use for font sizes.</p>
<h4>Smallest Font Size</h4>
<p>Tags will be displayed no smaller than this value.</p>
<h4>Largest Font Size</h4>
<p>Tags will be displayed no larger that this value.</p>
<h4>Cloud Format</h4>
<p>How to display the cloud.</p>
<h4>Select Tags Randomly</h4>
<p>Select your tags randomly from database.</p>
<h4>Sort by</h4>
<p>What field to sort by.</p>
<h4>Sort Order</h4>
<p>Direction of sort.</p>
<h4>Exclude Tags</h4>
<p>These tags won’t display in cloud.</p>
<h4>Include Tags</h4>
<p>Only these tags will display in cloud.</p>
<h4>Your Tags Page ID</h4>
<p>If you want to add a link to your tags archive page, write its page id.</p>
<p>You can format ‘Show All Tags’ link by adding ‘alltags_link’ class in your style.css.</p>
<h3>Version history</h3>
<h4>Version 1.2</h4>
<p>Compatible up to 2.7</p>
<h4>Version 1.1</h4>
<p>Add an option to add ‘Show All Tags’ link.</p>
<h4>Version 1.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>Initial release version.</li>
</ul>


Random Tags Cloud Widget

Random Tags Cloud displays your tags by selecting randomly. Of course, you can customize other tag cloud's settings.

Post Tags and Archives vs Random Tags Cloud Widget