Try adding .widget_tag_cloud { line-height: normal } to your CSS file. If that doesn’t work, try adding .widget_tag_cloud { line-height: 12pt }, except replace 12pt with whatever your largest font size in your tag cloud is.

If none of the above works, let me know. I may be able to help out, but I’d probably have to have a look at the site to figure it out.

Cheers!

Just what I was looking for.

best, oliver

I never touched the functions.php file in my theme, but the lovely people over at Studiopress said that was where the problem was. I re-uploaded the functions.php file and voila, everything is working flawlessly. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the orz-tag-cloud text/script, somehow I edited the functions.php file – have no how since I never touched it, but oh well, that’s the lovely world of computers!

Thanks again for your response – you’re a very good peson and I bless you with bountiful good karma.

Warmly,
Andrew

Assuming that it does (which is implicit), then I’m not sure what causes the problem. Nothing in Orzeszek Tag Cloud explicitly sends the headers, and, as you can see from the code, it’s a very simple plugin that shouldn’t conflict with anything.

What text editor did you use to create the orz-tag-cloud.php file?

Perhaps you can send me your orz-tag-cloud.php file by e-mail (to the address on the About page), and I can have a look at it.

Here’s the warnings I receive after activating the plug-in…

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/d/e/n/denovomg/html/wp-content/themes/platinum/functions.php:1) in /home/content/d/e/n/denovomg/html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 868

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/d/e/n/denovomg/html/wp-content/themes/platinum/functions.php:1) in /home/content/d/e/n/denovomg/html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 868

As you can see from the code, I’m using the Studiopress Platinum Theme with the Studiopress Genesis Framework. The other plug-ins I’m using are…

>Dynamic Content Gallery
>Gravity Forms
>Orzeszek Tag Cloud

Ironically enough, your solution was the one provided by Studiopress in their support forum for my theme. Everyone can get it to work on their forum but me. I’m running version Version 2.9.2.

“An alternative method would be to provide a ‘smallest’ colour and a ‘largest’ colour and write code to fade between the two. I believe there are plugins that do that already.”

Yeah tried a few of these.. Unfortunately my experience thus far with most of these tag cloud plugins is that they don’t seem to do anything.. This one works.. The color thing isn’t really a big deal.. Controlling the sizes and the number of links was more important in the BIG picture.. So I’ll live.. **LOL**

You can have a look at the wp_generate_tag_cloud function in wp-includes/category-template.php to see how the built-in tag cloud widget generates its output.

It sets the size of the font in each tag link by reference to a smallest and largest size, which you can specify. But there’s no functionality for specifying a colour or a CSS class for each tag link based on its size.

You could modify this function so that it sets a particular CSS class for each link based on the font size (eg, where the font size would be 8 pt, output … class="tag-link-size-8" …). You could then provide a corresponding style in your CSS template.

However, the font size step may change at some point, which would break everything. For example, your tags might be sized, 8 pt, 10 pt, and 12 pt at one time. If you add two more tags later, the sizes could change to 8 pt, 9 pt, 10 pt, 11 pt, and 12 pt. That would mean that you would have to update your CSS styles.

An alternative method would be to provide a ‘smallest’ colour and a ‘largest’ colour and write code to fade between the two. I believe there are plugins that do that already.

Sorry I couldn’t provide you with a quick fix. :-)

If you want to use my version of the widget, you can download the twitter-widget.js file here.

You need to upload the twitter-widget.js JavaScript file to your server somewhere, and then include the following code in your blog—

In the place on your blog where you want the Twitter updates to show up (eg, in a WordPress Text Widget), include the following code—

<div id="twitter-widget">

<h3><a href="http://twitter.com/TwitterUser">Recent Twitter</a></h3>

<noscript><p>JavaScript must be enabled to display recent Twitter updates.</p></noscript>

<ul id="twitter_update_list"><li></li></ul>

</div>

The key part here is the <ul>…</ul> part. This is where the Twitter updates will actually show up. The rest is decoration. For example, the <h3>…</h3> part is a heading, which you can modify or remove.

In your footer, you need to include the following—

<script type="text/javascript" src="/path-to-javascript/twitter-widget.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/TwitterUser.json?callback=twitterCallback2&amp;count=15"></script>

These scripts are included in the footer, right at the end of your website, so that your entire page loads before these scripts load. That way, if Twitter is slow on a particular day, it won’t hold up the loading of your page.

Remember to replace TwitterUser with your Twitter username and path-to-javascript with the path to the twitter-widget.js file on your server. You can also change the number of Tweets displayed by changing the number in count=15 to something else.

If this isn’t what you’re looking for, you can also try the JavaScript widgets that are available here.

It’s a good idea to avoid WordPress plugins that don’t rely on JavaScript. These plugins will try to download the Twitter updates on the server, before sending your page out. Because Twitter can take a while to respond, or may be offline, they will time out after a certain period (usually about two seconds). The JavaScript method doesn’t suffer from this same problem.

Thanks for the plug-in! I had another question, what plug-in do you use for your recent twitter widget? The one I use is twitter for wordpress, however, the bug is that from time to time, it will display no public twitter messages, when in fact, there are. I read that it’s some kind of bug, do you use the same widget or do you have any suggestions as to how to fix it?

thanks!