Display Link List Like Tag Cloud Displays Tags

  • Does anyone know if it’s possible and if so how to display my link lists in my sidebar mimicing the look of the tag cloud plugin?

    I would luv to have links I define in the links section of my wp styled with different font sizes and colors for a final output on the page like the UTW or Tag Cloud plugin does for tags.

    I know little to no coding beyond css and html but am most willing to spend the time researching and trying to figure it out. Just need a little push in the right direction to start learning how I might be able to accomplish this.

    Many Thanks

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  • A little push in the right direction would be to see how UTW or Tag Cloud accomplishes this trick that you want. Look at their code and see how they do it.

    You want your links to appear as a cloud? But how would the links change color or size? Just based on your whim? Usually, larger or darker wording means more entries related to that topic listed in the cloud. Since these are all just links to other sites, I don’t see how they’d list like that.

    So, if you want to change the size and color of your links, look at how the other plugins do it.

    A rather inelegant option would be to put in a $count variable in order to count each link you have listed. Assuming your links are in an unordered list, you could have WP output <li id="link1"> and so on. Then, in your CSS, you can style #link1 {color: #999; font-size: 120%;} and so on.

    Thread Starter pwtgirl

    (@pwtgirl)

    Thank you so much for that push I’m looking further into it now..

    blockquoteBut how would the links change color or size? Just based on your whim?/blockquote

    This was what had me stumped. My first idea was to define a font size and color to each link catagory. Then I could just style the different link catagories in my css file. But I don’t know how to do this. Since I want all the links to show up together in one group like the tag cloud displays them. Then each link cat. would have a different style. Without knowing what to use for the .class name for each catagory of links I’m lost. I suppose I could just use a get links list tag wrapped in a div with it’s own css class for each catagory. That may work..

    Thanks again for the push I’m off to see what I can come up with.

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