Minimalist Tag Cloud

Minimalist Tag Cloud is a WordPress plugin that allows you to display your website’s most popular tags, categories or custom taxonomies as a widget or using a shortcode.
The plugin styles the tag cloud in a minimalist style with the option to include tag count.

You can use Minimalist Tag Cloud as a widget or shortcode.

There are a number of options that you can customise:

• number of items (tags) to show
• type of taxonomies (tags / categories / custom taxonomies) to show
• include/exclude a list of tags
• smallest and largest font sizes
• font size unit
• display format (flat / list)
• flat format separator
• order by and order
• show/hide tag count

Check ‘Installation’ tab for details on how to embed the shortcode.

1. Upload ‘minimalist-tag-cloud’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory of your WordPress installation.

2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

3. The Minimalist Tag Cloud widget can now be configured and used from the Appearance -> Widgets menu

4. If you want to embed a tag cloud in your posts or pages, use the [scmintagcloud] shortcode.
   Example: [scmintagcloud taxonomy=”category” smallest=”12″ largest=”12″ unit=”px” format=”list” showcount=”yes”]

All attributes and possible values for selected attributes:

• tagcount
• taxonomy
• include
• exclude
• smallest
• largest
• unit
• showcount: yes, no
• format: flat, list
• separator
• orderby: count, name
• order: asc, desc, rand

Installation Instructions

1. Upload ‘minimalist-tag-cloud’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory of your WordPress installation.

2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

3. The Minimalist Tag Cloud widget can now be configured and used from the Appearance -> Widgets menu

4. If you want to embed a tag cloud in your posts or pages, use the [scmintagcloud] shortcode.
   Example: [scmintagcloud taxonomy=”category” smallest=”12″ largest=”12″ unit=”px” format=”list” showcount=”yes”]

All attributes and possible values for selected attributes:

• tagcount
• taxonomy
• include
• exclude
• smallest
• largest
• unit
• showcount: yes, no
• format: flat, list
• separator
• orderby: count, name
• order: asc, desc, rand

1. 

   Widget configuration.

2. 

   Example of tag cloud generated with list format + tag count.

3. 

   Example of tag cloud generated with list format + without tag count.

1.0

• Initial version.