Cool Tag Cloud

About Cool Tag Cloud

The Cool Tag Cloud plugin allows you to display a visually appealing tag cloud on your website. It is fully responsive and works on all browsers. You can customize the appearance and behavior of the tag cloud using various parameters.

Frequently asked questions

How does Cool Tag Cloud display tags?

The plugin renders a tag cloud using a professionally designed tag image as a background. It is completely responsive and correctly rendered in all browsers.

Can I use Cool Tag Cloud outside of a widget?

Yes, you can use the shortcode [cool_tag_cloud] to display the tag cloud anywhere where shortcodes are supported.

What customization options are available for the tag cloud?

You can customize the style, font family, font size, alignment, font weight, text transform, number of tags, order, taxonomy, nofollow attribute, animation, and display settings for single posts and archives.

Who developed and maintains the Cool Tag Cloud plugin?

The plugin is developed and maintained by WPKube. WPKube is a WordPress resource site offering guides and deals on plugins and hosting services.

Are there any special acknowledgments for the plugin's design?

Special thanks are given to Orman Clark for the tag image and to Dimox for the CSS code.

Changelog

2.29 (April 11th, 2023 )

Compatibility tested up to 6.2
Fixes for the readme

2.28 (October 3rd, 2022 )

Option to show siblings, chidren or descendants of the “active tag” when on an archive page of a tag/term.

2.27 (November 2nd, 2021 )

Fix CSS issues
Removed unused “tooltip” option

2.26 (September 24th, 2021 )

Escape/sanitize dynamic values for HTML attributes

2.25 ( May 24th, 2020 )

Option to get top tags and order them alphabetically

2.23 ( December 29th, 2020 )

Ability to disable !important CSS by setting option name “cool_tag_cloud_important” to “no” or a PHP constant COOL_TAG_CLOUD_IMPORTANT to false

2.22 ( November 25th, 2020 )

Issue with div tag closing incorrectly when no tags found

2.21 ( September 11th, 2020 )

WordPress 5.5 compatibility bump
Fix – When “On single post display” is set to “Tags from shown post” the “Exclude” paramater stops functioning
Fix – When “On single post display” is set to “Tags from shown post” and the current post has no tags it shows all tags instead of showing nothing

2.20 ( June 19th, 2020 )

WordPress 5.4 compatibility bump

2.19 ( January 14th, 2020 )

Option to have a non-linked list of tags ( span instead of anchor )

2.18 ( October 21st, 2019 )

Fix “Warning: Illegal offset type in isset or empty…” when title not supplied

2.17 ( October 4th, 2019 )

Option to limit the amount of shown tags and have a “view more” button to expand for full list

2.16 ( September 2nd, 2019 )

Option to show children terms of a specified parent term

2.15 ( August 9th, 2019 )

Option to include multiple taxonomies

2.14 ( July 24th, 2019 )

The class “ctc-active” will be added to the tags and categories that are connected to the currently shown post

2.13 ( April 12th, 2019 )

The local “on single post display” option now works for custom post types

2.12

Added options to include/exclude specific tags by ID

2.11

Added option to show post count for tags

2.10

Added [cool_tag_cloud] shortcode

2.09

PHP7 compatibility fixes

2.08

the option to show tags of the shown post now works for pages as well

2.07

option to set the widget to show the tags of the shown post ( on single post )

2.06

minor tweaks

2.05

removed widget_tag_cloud_args filter

2.04

added compressed png images

2.03

removed the bundled languages in favour of language packs from translate.wordpress.org

2.02

added Chinese (Taiwan) translation (thanks to 陳泰澄)

2.01

added French translation (thanks to Wolforg)

2.00

added 10 different color styles
added “Animation on hover” option

1.01

added “Image align” option
css fixes

1.00

first version