reneade

<p>This wordpress plugin provides a configurable tagcloud that shows tags depending of the current context only. For example the tagcloud shows only tags that really occur in the current category, or within the current date-, author-, tag- archive or even only the tags that occur in the search results.<br />
It is also possible to restrict the links of the tag cloud to the current viewing tag archive or category: If you click on the tag “test1” within the tag cloud of the tag archive of “test2” the target page will only contain posts that have both tags, like a drill down navigation. It is possible to exclude the tag of the tag-archive itself from the tagcloud.<br />
For the single post pages you can configure the tagcloud to show also related tags of the current posts, not only the direct tags of the post. And you can configure the tagcloud to exclude the tag of the current post, to show only the related tags.<br />
The style and sizes of the tagcloud can be configured, and the widget can be configured to be only visible if viewing a tag archive, category, a sinlge post or even only if viewing the searchresults for example. It is also possible to configure the number of tags that should be displayed in the different conditions.</p>
<p>Plugin Website: http://www.rene-ade.de/inhalte/wordpress-plugin-sensitivetagcloud.html<br />
Donations: http://www.rene-ade.de/stichwoerter/spenden</p>
<h3>Update</h3>
<ol>
<li>Deactivate the Plugin</li>
<li>Remove the existing folder ‘sensitive-tag-cloud’ with all files from the ‘wp-content/plugins’ folder on your webserver</li>
<li>Upload the new folder ‘sensitive-tag-cloud’ with all files to ‘/wp-content/plugins’ on your webserver</li>
<li>Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress</li>
</ol>


SensitiveTagCloud

This wordpress plugin provides a tagcloud that shows tags depending of the current context (e.g. Category, Author, Tag, Post) only.

DaveE

<p>The default Recent Posts widget is exceptionally basic. I always find myself in need of a way to easily display a selection of posts from any combination post type or taxonomy. Hence, Flexible Posts Widget.</p>
<p>Flexible Posts Widget (FPW) is more than just a simple alternative to the default Recent Posts widget.  With many per-instance options it is highly customizable and allows advanced users to display the resulting posts virtually any way imaginable.</p>
<h4>Features & options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Customizable widget title</li>
<li>Get posts by post type(s) and/or taxonomy & term(s) or directly by a list of post IDs.</li>
<li>Control the number of posts displayed and the number of posts to offset.</li>
<li>Option to display the post feature image.</li>
<li>Select the post feature image size to display from existing image sizes: thumbnail, medium, large, post-thumbnail or any size defined by the current theme.</li>
<li>Order posts by: date, modified date, ID, title, menu order, random, Post ID Order; and sort posts: ascending or descending.</li>
<li>Each widget’s output can be customized by user-defined templates added to the current theme folder.</li>
<li>Multi Language support. Compatible with <a href="http://wpml.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML</a> and <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/" rel="ugc">PolyLang</a> for sure. Not tested with other multi-language plugins, but it should work.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Plugin Hooks</h4>
<p>Flexible posts widget currently has two public hooks:</p>
<ul>
<li>Filter: <a href="https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/flexible-posts-widget/trunk/includes/class-fpw-widget.php#L191" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>dpe_fpw_args</code></a> allows filtering the query vars before submitting the widget posts query.</li>
<li>Filter: <a href="https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/flexible-posts-widget/trunk/includes/class-fpw-widget.php#L354" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>dpe_fpw_template_{$template_name}</code></a> filters the template file path used to display the widget output.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Future updates & feature requests list</h4>
<ul>
<li>Use search box instead of ID text field for post id’s</li>
<li>Shortcode functionality.</li>
<li>Get posts by Author.</li>
<li>Filter out the post currently being viewed.</li>
<li>Get posts from the same archive (term/post type/etc).</li>
<li>Limit results by a time period.</li>
</ul>


Flexible Posts Widget

This has got to be the most useful plugin of its kind.



Seriousl excellent plugin

An advanced posts display widget with many options. Display posts in your sidebars any way you'd like!

SensitiveTagCloud vs Flexible Posts Widget