Order by Count shortcode

Hi @raybez

Does it work in the widget (instaed of a shortcode). Let me know, that’ll give me an idea as to where to look for the cause of the issue.

By the way, great plug-in!!!

Thank you, happy to hear that.

Hi,

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

I can’t use it as a widget as the taxonomy=”list-tags” doesn’t show up as an option. (It is a custom tag created by the ListingPro theme.)

I therefore have to use it in its shortcode form.

It would be great if the widget could identify custom taxonomies and have it in the dropdown list as an option…

OK, so I did a bit more testing and saw that TAGS were listed twice in teh dropdown list, so I selected the second one and it now shows the custom tags. BUT the order is still incorrect in the widget so it is both the shortcode and widget that works the same.

It is kind of strange how it works.

When I order by name or count then it takes the first 25 items of the entire tag list and orders it descending or ascending. It is like it never takes the entire tags list into consideration; it is always only the top 25 items that gets displayed.

I also think that because the top 25 all have a count of 1 it makes no difference whether I order by name or count…

Hi @raybez

The taxonomy selection in the widget shows all the registered taxonomies. Names can be duplicated since it’s the name that is set for the custom taxonomy, we don’t modify the names and often developers just use “Tags” and “Categories” for names of custom taxonomies, I do that as well. Will see if there’s a way to help differentiate which taxonomy comes from where.

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As for taking the first 25 items it finds and ordering those (instead of all items), that should be the case only with the random order (limitation of the wp_tag_cloud() WordPress function). It randomizes the order of the first X amount of tags it finds.

But for order by name and count it should actually take all tags into account.

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I also think that because the top 25 all have a count of 1 it makes no difference whether I order by name or count…

If you add one of tags to be on 2 posts, does it show as the first tag in the list?

Edit:

I probably misunderstood that last part. Do you have tags with more than 1 post on them?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by WPKube.

Yes I do.

There are 2,894 tags and some have up to 6 posts associated with it. It is these that I want to show in the cloud.

I therefore need the tags sorted by count and descending.

Hi @raybez

Did some tests and it seems that the WordPress wp_tag_cloud() function has a problem with ordering custom taxonomies by count. Regular tags/categories work but custom taxonomies don’t.

I’ll look into it and figure out a way to resolve that issue. Will keep you informed.

Aah brilliant, so I am not going insane.

Thanks and waiting in anticipation.

Hello @wpkube ,

I’m having the same issue, order by count does not work and I’m not using a custom taxonomie. (Also placed it via shortcode)

How my order should be (visualized by size): https://prnt.sc/10idarf

E.g. Baby and Tipps would be the top spots. But actually it’s sorted by alphabet: https://prnt.sc/10ideph

Link to my Example: Link

It would be great if you could find a solution for this. Or have you @raybez found a solution in the meantime?

Thanks!

Hi @wpkube

I too seem to be unable to get ‘count’ to work via shortcode. As far as I am aware I am also not using any form of custom taxonomy.

This is a very useful plugin and hoping you can find and fix the issue.

Thanks

@loano1 @raybez

The plan is to release a new update that fixes that this week.

@hellojoe

This specific issue is related to ordering of tags by count, which is a WordPress limitation. Showing the count should be unrelated to the order by count, so please submit a separate support request for that (to keep things organized) and we’ll figure it out.

@wpkube Do you have an update on this yet?

Hi @raybez

Sorry for the wait. Just released a new update, can you please try it out and let me know if it resolves the issue.

Hi @wpkube

Unfortunately the upgrade didn’t solve the issue for me. You can view the tags in the center of the page on the home page of Ashrays. The shortcode that I use is as follows:

[cool_tag_cloud style="silver" number="8" order_by="count" order=desc" taxonomy="list-tags"]

The order is still asc as these tags have the lowest count.

Try this:

[cool_tag_cloud style="silver" number="8" orderby="count" order="desc" taxonomy="list-tags"]

The difference is that instead of order_by it’s orderby

And there was a missing quote in the order parameter.

I can confirm that it is still only sorting by name and not by “count”. Also, the order doesn’t change whether I set it to “desc” or “asc”; which is the same as before.