Question

I would like to display tagcloud in my home page. Found this wordpress flash plugin http://alexisyes.com/tags/wpcumulus , but for that i needed to setup wordpress. I am wondering whether there is any other standalone plugin similar to wpcumulus which can be configurable.

I don’t want to install wordpress but i would like to make use of wpcumulus. Is it possible? If not wpcumulus, could i make use of any other standalone tag clouds.

Just curious, i came across all tag clouds which were implemented in either flash or flex. Can i get the demo link/plugin which has implemented the same in javascript.

Thanks, ~shafi

Answer 1

You could definitely use wpcumulus (I just downloaded it and checked it out). You just have to figure out what data it needs to create a tag cloud.

First, you need to download the swf and add it to your site. You can take a look of an installed version / demo of it to see the proper swf embed html.

Next, you have to figure out how it gets its data. The quickest way I think to do this is to go to a demo of wpcumulus and look at the http requests / responses going on. I use the Live Http Headers plugin for Firefox for this. It will probably look for a xml file that’s set in its swf embed code. I’m guessing the xml might look something like this:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <tags>     <tag name='Books' count='4' />     <tag name='Magazines' count='20' />     <!-- etc... --> </tags> 

Now you just need to create an xml file that includes that data. You could either make it a static xml file, or use php or asp.net to create a dynamic page that produces xml.