Tag Cloud help visitors to find posts related to a particular tag. Hence displaying tag cloud can help you in reducing the bounce rate and also developing some loyal readers for your blog.
Using an animated flash tag cloud can be visually exciting and add to the beauty of your blog. You can see an example on my blog in sidebar, in “TAG CLOUD” tab. This is added by installing a Wordpress plugin named – WP-Cumulus.
It’s author says,
WP-Cumulus allows you to display your site’s tags, categories or both using a Flash movie that rotates them in 3D. It works just like a regular tags cloud, but is more visually exciting. Clicking the tags can be a little hard (depending on your speed setting) but does take you to the appropriate page
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With this plugin you can select the background color of your flash tag clod and also the color of tag links.
After installing the plugin, just add this code <?php wp_cumulus_insert(); ?>wherever you want to display your animated flash tag cloud.
The plugin can also be added as a widget.
You can download this plugin here.
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May 14th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
hi i m using same theme like yours and i want to add tag cloud like in them tag options, how will i
May 16th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
hello any body there…………………..
May 17th, 2009 at 3:47 am
hey sorry… I’ve been out since few days…
If you want to add Flash Tag Cloud,procedure is above… for simple tag cloud you can use ‘Simple Tags’ plugin
May 17th, 2009 at 9:11 am
no already installed plugin but i want to
insert in here
* POPULAR
* COMMENTS
* FEATURED
* TAG CLOUD <<<<<<<<<<<how will i insert here
tell me
May 17th, 2009 at 9:29 am
You already have the simple tag cloud, do you want the flash tag cloud?? have you installed the WP-Cumulus plugin for that?
May 17th, 2009 at 11:46 am
yes installed the WP-Cumulus plugin , now what ???
* POPULAR
* COMMENTS
* FEATURED
* TAG CLOUD <<<<<<<<<<<how will i insert here
December 22nd, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Hello, I need the same information that Anjul is asking for. Can you please help? I have a simple tag cloud and want to replace it with the flash tag cloud. I have WP-Cumulus installed. My theme has the 4 tab setup like seen above. Tag Cloud is in 4th position, and I’d like it to be a flash tag cloud.
Thank you!~
January 6th, 2010 at 10:34 am
hello…
i lyk the ajax part that has been used in “categories” and “archive”….
cud u plz tell me how cn i apply this effect in ma website(its in progress).
thank u.
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:39 am
i just downloaded the flash tag cloud from wordpress.org but still don’t know how to make it work…
February 20th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Hi I like that plugin but I get a lot of 404 errors when I click on the tags in the cumulus tagcloud anybody suggestions what I do wrong?