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del.icio.us tag cloud v1.0.1
INTRODUCTION
UPDATE // 2007-05-15
Oops, I guess I totally forgot about updating this page. I don’t have time to overhaul or maintain this script, but I’ll post up the code as-is; if anyone wants to hack it or re-use it (especially the front-end code), feel free. I’ll comment out the offending code (see my last update from… uhh.. 18 months ago, below), please be responsible in accessing del.icio.us. :)
UPDATE // 2005-11-23
Sorry folks, I’m disabling the download links temporarily while I add some server-side caching to the web service call in the script. Seems as though a few big sites have decided to start using this script and it’s causing the del.icio.us API servers some grief (ack.)
Please check back in a day or two for an updated version of the script.
This plugin provides WordPress users with a function to display their most used del.icio.us tags in a cloud-like format.
The plugin can take a variety of user-configurable parameters, including the number of tags to show, and the font sizes and colours of the fonts displayed.
Important Note: This plugin requires the PHP CURL library.
DOWNLOAD
You can download the del.icio.us tag cloud plugin v1.0.1 (modified, del.icio.us connection code disabled; code will not work as-is!) here:
ZIP: delicious-tagcloud-1.0.1.zip
INSTALLATION
- Obviously, you’ll need an existing del.icio.us account in order for the plugin to work.
- Extract
delicious-tagcloud.php to your /wp-content/plugins directory
- Go to the Plugins screen in the WordPress administration panel and enable the plugin.
- Insert the following code into your
/wp-content/themes/<your theme name>/sidebar.php template file (or whichever template you’d like to use the tag cloud in):<?php delicious_tagcloud( 'myusername', 'mypwd' ); ?>Be sure to change the username and password in the function call to reflect your del.icio.us login information.For more information about the available configuration options (font colors, sizes, number of tags displayed), please see the comments in the delicious-tagcloud.php plugin file.
- If you’d like to use CSS to style the output (highly recommended), insert the following CSS into your WordPress theme’s stylesheet:
#tagcloud {
font: 11px/19px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-align: center;
width: 145px;
overflow: hidden;
}
#tagcloud-warning {
font: 11px/11px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #c33;
padding: 6px;
margin-bottom: 4px;
width: 133px;
}
#tagcloud-error {
font: 11px/11px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
border: 1px dotted #999;
color: #333;
background-color: #eee;
padding: 6px;
margin-bottom: 4px;
width: 131px;
}
(Note: If you have trouble copying/pasting the block above, I’ve packaged the CSS with the plugin download, in the file named delicious-tagcloud.css.)
Feel free to customize the CSS to suit your needs. Just keep in mind that the tag text inside the #tagcloud <div> will be additionally styled by the parameters you pass to the delicious_tagcloud() function.
- Go test it out - if you followed the instructions above, everything should work fine. :)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2005-2007 Nick Bouton (email : nick_at_nickbouton_dot_com )
And as a great man once said,
“Pray for what you want, but steal what you need.”
(from http://www.badcookie.com/ :)
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
del.icio.us tag cloud v1.0.1
INTRODUCTION
Oops, I guess I totally forgot about updating this page. I don’t have time to overhaul or maintain this script, but I’ll post up the code as-is; if anyone wants to hack it or re-use it (especially the front-end code), feel free. I’ll comment out the offending code (see my last update from… uhh.. 18 months ago, below), please be responsible in accessing del.icio.us. :)
Sorry folks, I’m disabling the download links temporarily while I add some server-side caching to the web service call in the script. Seems as though a few big sites have decided to start using this script and it’s causing the del.icio.us API servers some grief (ack.)
Please check back in a day or two for an updated version of the script.
This plugin provides WordPress users with a function to display their most used del.icio.us tags in a cloud-like format.
The plugin can take a variety of user-configurable parameters, including the number of tags to show, and the font sizes and colours of the fonts displayed.
Important Note: This plugin requires the PHP CURL library.
DOWNLOAD
You can download the del.icio.us tag cloud plugin v1.0.1 (modified, del.icio.us connection code disabled; code will not work as-is!) here:
ZIP: delicious-tagcloud-1.0.1.zip
INSTALLATION
- Obviously, you’ll need an existing del.icio.us account in order for the plugin to work.
- Extract
delicious-tagcloud.phpto your/wp-content/pluginsdirectory - Go to the Plugins screen in the WordPress administration panel and enable the plugin.
- Insert the following code into your
/wp-content/themes/<your theme name>/sidebar.phptemplate file (or whichever template you’d like to use the tag cloud in):<?php delicious_tagcloud( 'myusername', 'mypwd' ); ?>Be sure to change the username and password in the function call to reflect your del.icio.us login information.For more information about the available configuration options (font colors, sizes, number of tags displayed), please see the comments in the delicious-tagcloud.php plugin file. - If you’d like to use CSS to style the output (highly recommended), insert the following CSS into your WordPress theme’s stylesheet:
#tagcloud {
font: 11px/19px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-align: center;
width: 145px;
overflow: hidden;
}#tagcloud-warning {
font: 11px/11px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #c33;
padding: 6px;
margin-bottom: 4px;
width: 133px;
}#tagcloud-error {
font: 11px/11px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
border: 1px dotted #999;
color: #333;
background-color: #eee;
padding: 6px;
margin-bottom: 4px;
width: 131px;
}(Note: If you have trouble copying/pasting the block above, I’ve packaged the CSS with the plugin download, in the file named
delicious-tagcloud.css.)Feel free to customize the CSS to suit your needs. Just keep in mind that the tag text inside the
#tagcloud <div>will be additionally styled by the parameters you pass to thedelicious_tagcloud()function. - Go test it out - if you followed the instructions above, everything should work fine. :)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2005-2007 Nick Bouton (email : nick_at_nickbouton_dot_com )
And as a great man once said,
“Pray for what you want, but steal what you need.”
(from http://www.badcookie.com/ :)
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
Any news when it’s going to be back?
Yeah, I’d love to use this. Any progress?
Sorry about the delay, folks. An updated version is coming this week, I promise.
Eagerly awaiting the new version!!
I haven’t looked, but is it hard to port this as a stand-alone script? I have my own custom content management system, and this looks pretty sweet.
Thanks,
Blaine
Quick update - I’ve got the caching code mostly working, just need to test it a bit more and I should be able to post it up this weekend. Sorry about the delay, real life (i.e. getting my townhouse ready to sell) is interfering with my messing around with code. :)
Blaine - No, it actually should be pretty simple to convert to a standalone script. In fact that’s how I had originally written it. I’ll release a standalone version pretty soon.
hello nick,
i got the tagcloud and i was thinking about mirroring it on my site so that the “small-users” could still use it. i this is somehow offending you please let me know, otherwise i will putt it online in 12 hours at http://schokokeks.org/~johannes/misc/delicious-tagcloud-1.0.zip
Unghsghf…
TagClouds Obervations, font sizes and colors •
Do you use Tag Clouds?
Some people may not like Tag Clouds, I personally find them interesting, useful and aesthetically appealing even if they are not precis information. They can have different useful purposes, ma.gnolia icon ma.golia for example …
Pretty cool way to add some relevant keyword content!
nice.
Is this available? I’d love to use this!
Thanks!
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I have created a new tag cloud at http://www.randomdomainname.co.uk/delicious which has caching built in if you want to add it as a widget to your site… it’s offered as is so give it a go if you want.
What’s cool about your plugin was I was able to tweak it to load my own scuttle bookmarks, since it uses the same API as delicious, I just had to adjust some paths. Thanks.
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can I use this for my website?
yup, but you’ll have to make some code changes to it in order to get it to work. or feel free to just use the front end code for your own tag cloud interface.
can I use this for my website? Question repeated.
My website is developed in the .NET Framework?
It’s open source, so yeah, you can use it all you want.
If you want to use it with .NET, though, you’ll probably need to do some work on it, as the logic for it is all in PHP, and it’s designed for Wordpress (which runs on PHP.)
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Hello.
I tryed this and is not working on my site …
when i put the code .. on the page it show my this :
Sorry, the del.icio.us tag cloud has encountered an error.
Here is the error message:
No tags found [curl error: ]
Sorry, the del.icio.us tag cloud has encountered an error.
Here is the error message:
No tags found!
Any advice ?
I’m guessing you missed the part that said “modified, del.icio.us connection code disabled; code will not work as-is!” in the instructions above. It’s not finding any tags because it’s not connecting to del.icio.us. You’ll have to turn that on and verify that it’s even hitting the proper URL first — and I wouldn’t suggest running the code as-is without adding caching of some sort.
This blog is great
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thanks so much for this great and easy to use tool!!!
Here is a nice script for a design tag cloud :
http://www.ilikeyoutube.com/cloud/
Enjoy.