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Joomla Templates Free Bonus Tag Cloud Modules

Submitted by admin on April 5, 2006 – 1:27 pmNo Comment

Available to ClubTVK members only see here on how to become a member.

A Free Tag Cloud module based upon a ‘hacked’ version of Tag Cloudmod_mostread.

The module installs just like every other Joomla module and setup is straight forward.

A Tag Cloud takes a list of your most popular articles and displays them as a cloud, the more popular an item is the bigger the link is to it. You can choose what content to display in the cloud from the administrator section under site modules.

Depending on where you place the tag cloud you may need to create a css suffix to enable a good visual appearence.

Also, at present to adjust the value break points, the number at which the font gets bigger and the size of the font used, you need to edit /modules/mod_tagcloud.php

When you open the file scroll to the bottom until you find this section:

Tag Cloud Edit

The number between the two quote marks after each ‘echo’ ("1") is the font size value, this can be anything from 1 (very small) to 7 (very large)

The numbers after ‘hits’ determines the number of hits to fall into that cetegory, so we can see in this example content with between 5 and 25 hits will use size 2 font.

Adjust these to suit your site.

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