[Plugin: New Tag Cloud] How/where to insert category number(s)?

Solved!

To pass a specific category value into New Tag Cloud to get the tags for that category only requires the following:

1. In the New Tag Cloud settings page turn OFF cache.

2. In the newtagcloud.php file find and comment out


// if (is_array($instanceOptions['catfilter']))

// $sqlCatFilter = "$wpdb->term_relationships.object_id IN (SELECT object_id FROM $wpdb->term_relationships LEFT JOIN $wpdb->term_taxonomy ON $wpdb->term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id = $wpdb->term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id WHERE term_id IN (” . implode(“,”, $instanceOptions[‘catfilter’]) . “)) AND”;

// else

// $sqlCatFilter = “”;

Create a copy of this code snipit and make the following changes (assuming, in this example, that you have a global variable XYZ_CATEGORY define:


$new_category = XYZ_CATEGORY;

if (is_array($instanceOptions['catfilter']))

$sqlCatFilter = "$wpdb->term_relationships.object_id IN (SELECT object_id FROM $wpdb->term_relationships LEFT JOIN $wpdb->term_taxonomy ON $wpdb->term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id = $wpdb->term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id WHERE term_id = $new_category) AND”;

else
$sqlCatFilter = “”;

Now I can dynamically create a tag cloud based on a category I define on a page rather than statically in the settings page.

You can see this in action by comparing https://www.theindependentview.com and https://www.planetearthupdate.com, both domain alias and I use domain url to determine category that then is used to select applicable tags.

I believe I am trying to do the same thing as you. I have several categories that I would like to create tag clouds for and the selection in the options is not correctly displaying the tag clouds. I am trying to use this to show all of the different call types that my fire department goes on (defined as tags) and am splitting them up into categories based on the year that the calls were made in.

Your way sounds cleaner, but I do not understand how you are defining the global variable. Could you expand on your fix?

Thanks!!