Art of Blogging

Tag Clouds according to Wikipedia: “A tag cloud (more traditionally known as a weighted list in the field of visual design) is a visual depiction of content tags used on a website. Often, more frequently used tags are depicted in a larger font or otherwise emphasized, while the displayed order is generally alphabetical… Selecting a single tag within a tag cloud will generally lead to a collection of items that are associated with that tag.”

For a live example of them, take a look at the end of this post and also on the bottom of my sidebar.php.

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WordPress has all sorts of plugins. Loads and loads of them. A lot of work is put into them, both on the development side and the utilization side. Usually, they are nice and slick.

Sometimes, that is just too much to hope for. Lately, it is even getting worse and only exacerbated by my using the WordPress MU engine.

Sometimes, a simple and crude hack is a better solution.

IMNHO, here is such a hack.

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The other night I decided I needed to have some php run from my posts now and again. I started doing the “normal” WordPress thing and messing with plugins and seeing which worked on WPMU and which did not.

This went typically… find the plugin, install the plugin, watch it blow up, remove the plugin, find the next one, modify WPMU configuration so it works… hack hack hack…

I finally found a couple that worked and I will write them up soon.

Except…

When I put the php code in my post and hit save, it just vanished.

O_o

My first thought was, “gee, how STUPID!”

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On the off chance that you might have missed it, I am not a huge fan of spending a lot of time on design. Unless you are trying to market your great design skills, of course.

That said, I will agree that the default WordPress theme (or any other script’s default theme) is boring. Sooner or later, I will change this theme. Maybe. It is still low on the priorities.

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