Thanks for the great tip here. I was having problems with some tags appearing way too big in the tag cloud and was able to bring it under control with your fantastic little plug in.

Thanks again

Andrew

The WordPress tag cloud doesn’t itself control the style of the font. It’s only the size of the font that it controls.

If you want to change whether the font is bold etc, you have to change your CSS. From what I can tell, the link style on your site uses a bold style. Since the tag cloud outputs a series of links, it comes out bold. That is, you have the following in your CSS—

a:link,
a:visited,
a:active
{
     font-weight: bold;
}

If you want the link style within the tag cloud to be different, add this to you CSS—

.widget_tag_cloud a:link,
.widget_tag_cloud a:visited,
.widget_tag_cloud a:active
{
     font-weight: normal;
}

Let me know if that fixes the problem for you.

If you look at my tag widget on the site you will see the text for the tags are all bold – how can I stop that from happening so that text matches the other widgets text?

Is there something that can be added to this plugin?

Thanks!

The plugin insures the modification is always available to change the size of the text even if functions.php gets updated.

That is the beauty of WordPress.

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.