WP-Cumulus

Description

WP-Cumulus allows you to show your site’s tags, categories or in cooperation by a Flash movie that rotates them in 3D. It works solely be fond of a regular tags cloud, but is more visually exciting. Clicking the tags can be a small tough (depending on your speed setting) but does pocket you to the appropriate page .

The sources code for the Flash movie are available from wordpress.org.

Authors:  weefselkweekje,  LukeMorton

Installation

1. Get on to sure you’re in succession WordPress translation 2.3 or better. It won’t work with older versions.
2. Download the zip file and extract the contents.
3. Upload the ‘wp-cumulus’ folder to your plugins index (wp-content/plugins/).
4. Activate the plugin owing to the ‘plugins’ page in WP.
5. See ‘Options->WP Cumulus’ to adjust things be fond of show size, etc…

In peacefulness to in detail show the tag cloud, you have three options.

1. Make a page or post and type [wp-cumulus] anywhere in the content. This ‘tag’ will be replaced by the flash movie as viewing the page. Seehere for more info.
2. Add the subsequent code anywhere in your theme to show the cloud. <?php wp_cumulus_insert(); ?> This can be ancient to add WP Cumulus to your sidebar, although it may not in detail be wide enough in many hand baggage to protect the tags legible.
3. The plugin adds a widget, so you can place it on your sidebar owing to ‘Appearance’->’Widgets’. Commence the widget to access it’s own set of settings (background color, size, etc).

Faq

My theme/site appears not to be fond of this plugin. It’s not showing correctly.

Here are a number of things that may prevent WP-Cumulus from showing or cause it to show a small message about how it wants the Flash plugin.

• In 99% of all hand baggage everywhere this happens the issue is caused by markup errors in the page everywhere the plugin is ancient. Please validate your blog byvalidator.w3.org and fix any errors you may encounter.
• Older versions had issues with PHP 5.2 (or better). This has been flat, so please upgrade to the latest translation.
• The plugin requires Flash Player 9 or better and javascript. Please get on to sure you have in cooperation.
• Here have been some hand baggage everywhere WordPress’ Automatic Plugin Upgrade feature breaks the plugin. After upgrading the plugin the Flash movie file would be dishonest for some users. If this happens to you, please try disabling and reinstalling the plugin (owing to FTP).
• Please try by the ‘compatibility mode’ if you’re by translation 1.20 or better. Although it’s better to fix no matter what is causing the issues with the normal mode, this can be ancient as a workaround key.

Hey, but what about SEO?

I’m not sure how beneficial tag clouds are as it comes to SEO, but solely in justification WP Cumulus outputs the regular tag cloud (and/or categories item) for non-flash users. This earnings that search engines will see the same links. They’re hidden owing to CSS by default, but here’s an options to get on to them noticeable.

I’d be fond of to change something in the Flash movie, will you release the .fla?

As of translation 1.12 the source code is available from wordpress.org under the GPL license. Click “other versions” and get the developer translation.

Some of my tags irregularly hit the sides of the movie and are cropped

If this happens you must change the aspect for the movie to get on to it wider. This can be done by increasing the width, but also by decreasing the height. In cooperation will get on to the movie ‘more landscape’ giving long tags more opportunity.

Some font are not showing up

In view of the fact that of the way Flash handles text, single Latin font are supported in the current translation. This is due to a limitation everywhere in peacefulness to be able to animate text fields smoothly the glyphs need to be embedded in the movie. The Flash movie’s source code is available for download owing to Subversion. Responsibility so will allocate you to make a translation for your language. Here’s a text meadow in the root of the movie that you can use to embed more font. If you change to another font, you’ll need to check over the Tag class as well.

More info here.

As I click on tags, nothing happens.

This is usually caused by a Flash security feature that affects movies served from another meadow as the surrounding page. If your blog ishttp://yourblog.com, but you have http://www.yourblog.com listed as the ‘WordPress address’ under Settings -> General this issue can occur. In this justification you must adjust this setting to contest your blog’s actual URL. If you place of safeguard’t already, I recommend you influence on a single URL for your blog and redirect visitors by other options. This will boost your search engine ranking and in the administer help solve this issue .

I’m not by WordPress…

• Steve Springett has ported this to Movable Type. More info over on his site.
• Michael Robinson has ported WP-Cumulus to RapidWeaver, see his tutorialhere.
• Amanda Fazani managed to get Cumulus effective on Blogger. More info on Blogumus here.
• Yannick Lejeune has done a TypePad translation based in part on Steve’s work.
• Christian Philipp’s made a TYPO3 translation.
• Rob Antonishen did a Serendipity translation (search for serendipity_event_freetag).
• Huge Place up with maintains the Joomla translation.
• Pratul Kalia and Bj�rn Jacob have ported it to Drupal.
• Ryan Tomlinson has a BlogEngine.NET translation.
• Colin Seymour has made a Habari translation.
• Andreas Scherer uses DasBlog.
• Jean-Yves Zinsou did an eZ translation.
• Simple Tags, an Face Engien addon can now show tags by Cumulus. Thanks Oliver Heine.
• Catchpen ported Cumulus to Shared Web CMS.
• Domi make a PHP-Fusion port.
• Bysoft did a Magento translation.
• Benjamin Anseaume made a Sweetcron translation.
• I wrote this post on how to use the flash movie in other contexts.

This catalog is far from complete. Probability are you’ll find the port you need owing to search engines. If you’re having distress setting it up, please contact the author(s) of the port.