Once in a while, especially when trying to explain a widely used technology to a non-technical person, I get this feeling that things could be done better.\u00a0 And that’s exactly what happened recently while I was explaining tag clouds.<\/p>\n
I know that there are plenty of variations on displaying and generating tag clouds – most used, most popular, recent, etc, etc, etc.\u00a0 But what I realized is that a relevant tag cloud plugin is missing in WordPress.\u00a0 Or, at least, is hard to find.<\/p>\n
Many WordPress blogs these days are serving a particular niche, covering a specific topic. So, for them relevant tag clouds are not a\u00a0 problem.\u00a0 All tags are relevant, since they all share the same topic.\u00a0 However, there are plenty of blogs which cover a wide variety of topics.<\/p>\n
Take my blog for example.\u00a0 I write about technology (tools, concepts, trends, etc.), movies, Cyprus, personal life, and lots of random bits about this and that.\u00a0 I tag all my posts.\u00a0 But the tag cloud is totally useless, because it shows all tags from all my posts.\u00a0 And what good are the technology tags for the reader who scrolls through movie posts?<\/p>\n
So, I think there is a need for a relevant tag cloud plugin.\u00a0 I don’t know exactly how it should work and if it will work at all, but my ideas are the following:<\/p>\n
I think such a tag cloud would be way more useful, especially for blogs that cover multiple topics.\u00a0 Especially, if the extra database load caused by generating such a tag cloud could be kept under control.<\/p>\n
What do you think?\u00a0 Is it going to work?\u00a0 Is there something that I missed here?\u00a0 Is there are a plugin that can do this?\u00a0 Would you jump in and implement it or should I do everything myself?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
Once in a while, especially when trying to explain a widely used technology to a non-technical person, I get this feeling that things could be done better.\u00a0 And that’s exactly what happened recently while I was explaining tag clouds. I know that there are plenty of variations on displaying and generating tag clouds – most … Continue reading WordPress plugin idea : relevant tag cloud<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,60],"tags":[1891,3012],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-wordpress","tag-taxonomies","tag-wordpress-plugins"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t