Create shortcode with custom parameters

Hi,

You can basically copy/paste a parameter in there and just leave the value you need ( the values in there are separated by the | character ). So for example there’s this in the list:

style="default|silver|green|red|blue|brown|purple|cyan|lime|black"

So let’s say you want the style to be blue, this is the shortcode:

[cool_tag_cloud style="blue"]

Thank you for your help!

Solved…

Hey I think the on_single_display=”global” command might be broken.
It doesn’t show all of my tags.

Here is my shortcode:

[cool_tag_cloud
font_family=”Verdana, Lucida, sans-serif”
align=”left”
font_weight=”normal”
number=”0″
order_by=”name”
order=”ASC”
taxonomy=”post_tag”
tooltip=”yes”
nofollow=”no”
animation=”no”
text_transform=”none”
on_single_display=”global” ] [/cool_tag_cloud]

Thank you

Hi,

It’s global by default. You only need to set it to local if you need to show tags of the specific post, if you’re showing all of them no need for the parameter.

But it should still work fine if you set it to global (just not needed).

You’re not getting any tags shown with that shortcode?

Hey,

I’d like to start by saying thanks for being so helpful and active!

Yea I don’t think the shortcode is working properly or I’m doing something wrong.

Here is the shortcode I’m using:

[cool_tag_cloud
font_family=”Verdana, Lucida, sans-serif”
align=”left”
font_weight=”normal”
number=”0″
order_by=”name”
order=”ASC”
taxonomy=”post_tag”
tooltip=”yes”
nofollow=”no”
animation=”no”
text_transform=”none”
smallest=”10″
largest=”20″ ] [/cool_tag_cloud]

It seems like none of the parameters are working as expected.
I tried changing everything but the page wasn’t updated and I’m not sure why.
I set the page visibility to private if that makes a difference.

Thanks again

Hi,

You’re welcome.

Do you have line breaks in the shortcode you use or did you just add the line breaks in the message so it’s clearer which parameters you use? Because shortcodes can’t have line breaks added like that.

Try this:

[cool_tag_cloud font_family="Verdana, Lucida, sans-serif" align="left" font_weight="normal" number="0" order_by="name" order="ASC" taxonomy="post_tag" tooltip="yes" nofollow="no" animation="no" text_transform="none" smallest="10" largest="20"]

I just tried that one on my installation and worked fine.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by WPKube.

Yes, that was the issue. Thank you!

Happy to hear it’s sorted out. You’re welcome.

Is this supposed to work on pages as well as posts?

When I put this shortcode on a page, the result is just an empty small box.

Yeah, should work on pages as well. Are you perhaps setting the on_single_display to local? Pages don’t have tags so it won’t work as local there.