Creating a clickable tag cloud using Tagul

Creating a clickable tag cloud for your blog, wiki or website

This is atag cloud

It’sclickable!

Clicking a tagtakes you to aof pages with that tag

Clicking throughtakes you to the relevant page

Tagul.com creates the word clouds

Create a new cloud and fillin basic details

For ‘Tags links pattern’ use: PBworks: https://YOURWIKI.pbworks.com/w/search?q= WordPress http://YOURBLOG.com/?s=$tag

This can be done on any site with searchfunctionality:1. Search for any term - e.g. ‘TEST’2. Note the URL produced3. Remove the word TEST from the URL4. Paste it into ‘Tags link pattern’

Play with the options, press‘Build the Cloud’

The tabs tocustomise further are at the top

The ‘Tags’ tab shows numberof times each tag is used

There’s variousoptions for styling the cloud

Clicking on the‘Preview’ tab showswhat your cloud will look like

Not enough differencebetween tags? Go back and change the number of times words appear!

Greater weight = bigger in tag cloud

Click ‘Build the Cloud’ again after making changes to the text

Click on ‘Refresh’ inthe ‘Preview’ tab - it should reflect your changes

The ‘Finalize’ taballows you to get theembed code for your blog / wiki

Change the ‘Width’ to the size you want (height changes automatically)

Press ‘Copy toclipboard’ to grab the embed code

Paste the the embed code ontoyour blog/wiki page

The tag cloudshould appear on your site

Click on atag to make sure it’s working

Questions?Ask me:@dajbelshaw (Twitter)http://bit.ly/dajbelshaw

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Creating a clickable tag cloud using Tagul

by Doug Belshaw on Mar 01, 2011

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