Fast Category Cloud WordPress Plugin

Public release of ByREV Fast Category Cloud , a wordpress plugin that shows categories as a tag cloud.

ByREV Fast Category Cloud Features:

• True Fade Color ~ all the colors change independently, but the correct proportion of each variety of colors: red, green and blue.)
• Cache Result ~ for fast loading and use less resources (default timeout cache = 60s)
• Show Count Post ~ number of items is displayed outside the category link, so SEO is not affected.
• Sort by : ascending order, descending, alphabetical and random.
• Limit Category ~ Show a fixed number of categories (option)
• Exclude category with lower number of posts
• Minimum and maximum font size can be of any value

Highly optimized for speed and memory

• Plugin is divided in two: “Basic Version” which can be used by inserting PHP code in template pages, and a “Widget Version” which can be manipulated in the WordPress configuration page. The fastest is the “Basic Version”.
• Cache help to increase speed and conserve CPU resources.
• Both scripts are under 100 lines of code, each have exactly 97 lines each.
• For most routines have been tested several versions of code and was chosen the fastest of them.

• Download Fast Category Cloud WordPress Plugin and Install !
• Activate ByREV Fast Category Cloud (Widget Version) from wp plugins menu: /wp-admin/plugins.php
  Both versions are included in archive, but only Basic Version is activated by default instalation
• From WordPress Widgets (/wp-admin/widgets.php) use ByREV Category Cloud (Widget)
• Use Widget menu for config (Widget Version). Basic Version use cofig from function’s call.

For more information, please see plugin home page
and FAQ PAGE

• The widget isn’t showing up on my Widgets page…

View this printscreen
http://images.blog-u.net/wp-content/original/2011_04/fast-category-cloud.png

Both versions are included in archive, but only “Basic Version” is activated by default.

Activate “Widget Version” via ByREV Category Cloud from wp admin menu:
/wp-admin/plugins.php

Note: Widget Version version does not work without the “Basic Version” so, both version must be active … otherwise you will receive an error message:

*Ups! ByREV Fast Category Cloud Plugin Error!

Widget Version does not work without Base Version, so please enable it and the Base Version!*

• How To Use (if using Basic Version. For Widget use WP Config)

  Categories Cloud Categories

Where:

• mincount ~ Minimum post count
• limitcat : Max no. of categories to display (MAX Value: 100)
• min_scale : Minimum font size
• max_scale : Maximum font size
• color_start : Starting Base Color
• color_end : Ending Fade Color
• cache : Enable Caching HTML Code. Valid value: on, off
• cahe_timeout : Time before the cache expires
• view_count : Enable display number of items in categories. Valid value: on, off
• orderby : Sort by : name, id or post count.
• order : Categories order. Valid value: rand, asc or desc

1. 

   Screenshot Widget Config

2. 

   Screenshot Cloud Cat ASC sorted

1.43c

Solve call-time pass-by-reference error.

1.42

Fast Category Cloud 1.4 is the first public release of ByREV Fast Category Cloud

1.43

Solve “division by zero” , occur if the blog has only one category.