Tag Clouds
I hate tag clouds… They look so unorganized and messy. But I don’t hate them as much anymore. And that’s because of WP-Cumulush. WP-Cumulush is a Wordpress plugin by Roy Tanck that creates a flash based tag cloud. This one moves in 3D and looks really nice. I like it because the UI is seamless and instantly knowable. Just hover your cursor around to make it move. It really is brilliant. Try it out on the side —–>
Installing and setting up WP-Cumulush:
1. Download WP-Cumulush from here.
2. Unzip the zip file and upload the folder “wp-cumulush” to your “/wp-content/plugins/” folder.
3. Sign into your blog’s admin and click on Plugins
4. Activate the Plugin
5. In your dashboard, go to Design and then Widgets
6. Add the Widget “wp-cumulush” to a sidebar
7. Click Edit to get to the Options Menu
8. Change the options to suit your blog
9. Don’t forget to save the changes!
Hints:
I found that it was better to have the plugin wider than high, so that the tags would not be cut off.
An easy way to make the tag cloud look seemless is to check “Background transparency” in the options.
In the Settings section of the dashboard you will find the same options for wp-cumulush that are shown above. Those don’t seem to work.