[wp-hackers] Combining different taxonomy term clouds into one

Andrew Nacin wp at andrewnacin.com
Fri Jan 7 04:52:50 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Mike Schinkel
<mikeschinkel at newclarity.net>wrote:

> On Jan 6, 2011, at 11:28 PM, Haluk Karamete wrote:
> > Say, you got one taxonomy called Taxonomy1 and another Taxonomy2.
> > And each is growing their own terms organically as the various posts come
> in.
> >
> > So, at some point, for the sake of an argument Taxonomy1 grows to 10
> > tags and Taxonomy tag makes it to 20 tags.
> >
> > there are code snippets available to display individual tag clouds for
> > these 2 taxonomies. No problem there.
> >
> > But how do you create one tag cloud as a combination of both?
> >
> > In other words, what technique do you use to end up with a global tag
> > cloud consisting of 30 items - while maintaing a proper order for the
> > overall tag cloud?
> >
> > Obviously, placing the two tag clouds one after the other in a list
> > form is not going to cut it. With such an implementation, the last
> > item of the Taxonomy1 tag cloud would appear to be bigger ticket item
> > than the first item of the Taxonomy2 - which we do not want.
>
> What code/widget are you using to generate your tag cloud?


I do believe this is supported in 3.1.
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15313


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