My Technorati Tag Cloud
March 27th, 2006 by Matt
Update: For everyone that does not have wordpress or is having trouble Technorati has released a Blog Top Tags Widget. Just follow their directions and you can have your tags from them.
Update: There is an update to this plugin that works with wordpress 2.1 here
I have been working on a new and cool Technorati wordpress plugin.
This plugin will download your most used Technorait tags and display them in a tag cloud on your blog just like they show up on your Technorati profile. As always this plugin has caching so that it will only talk to technorait’s web site one an hour.
Also the only way to your tag cloud from Technorati is to become a Technorati memeber and get and API key. Then download the plugin (zip) and install it.
Add the following code to your template where you want your tag cloud to show up
It will format the data from technorati to look like your tag cloud on your technorati profile
< ?php technoratiTagCloud(”url”,”api key”); ?>
You may also request the number of tags you want to see the default is 20.
< ?php technoratiTagCloud(”url”,”api key”, “num of tags to fetch”); ?>
I hope you enjoy it.
Update:
Ok Wordpress will not let me remove the spave between the < and the ? so when copying the examples remove the space between the < and the ? or the example will not work
Thank you to everyone that wrote in
I got a lot of errors after implementing your plug-in, something line13 its showed a error, also it showed error in the admin menu as soon as i activated it + in the main page also.
Hi Matt, Can you show us an example of this on your site?
Never mind .. I just spotted it under your graphics.
Warning: main(wp-includes/rss-functions.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/pounds2g/public_html/thursdaythirteen.com/wp-content/plugins/mytags.php on line 23
Warning: main(): Failed opening ‘wp-includes/rss-functions.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/pounds2g/public_html/thursdaythirteen.com/wp-content/plugins/mytags.php on line 23
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/pounds2g/public_html/thursdaythirteen.com/wp-content/plugins/mytags.php:23) in /home/pounds2g/public_html/thursdaythirteen.com/wp-admin/plugins.php on line 16
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Any idea how to get past these errors upon activation in 2.02? Looks like a nice plugin - we’d love to try it out!
(p.s. if you could modify the code in my reply to omit the path, that would be really nice of you!)
I have made a change to the code. I took a look and I dont use the ‘wp-includes/rss-functions.php’ file at all. I have removed it and uploaded a new version. Please let me know if you are still having problems.
Matt
Warning: main(wp-includes/rss-functions.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in wp-content/plugins/mytags.php on line 23
Warning: main(): Failed opening ‘wp-includes/rss-functions.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in wp-content/plugins/mytags.php on line 23
I tried altering the path to rss-functions.php, but that didn’t work. The first thing I see is a call to to that file, should it be deleted?
Thanks!
Yes just delete the include. I was using it at one time but ended up not needing it so you can just delete the include .
The new version I uploaded has that line commented out as there is no need for it.
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I have a problem with this plugin. It shows me this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init() in wp-content/plugins/mytags.php on line 54
Can you solve this problem, please?
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I am having the exact same problem as the poster above, error on line 54
Ok Curl is what I use to download the content from technorati. I am not a huge php developer. But you can try to replace it with getfile()
I do not have time right now to look into it I am sorry. Try installing curl or upgrading your php
Matt
Blog hiatus and mashup…
Second, I hacked a script by Matt on the Random Thoughts blog to retrieve this blog’s Technorati tag cloud (see right menu). Sort of in lieu of categories really. Since I don’t have control of Blogger, I’m running the PHP for this on a hosted server…
Is there a similar script for Blogger?
I would also like to know if there is a similar script for Blogger. Please let us know.
Cheers
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I would like to do this in typepad. I tried adding the code to notes in a typepad list. Didn’t seem to work.
This is actually way over my head, but I would really love to replace my categories list with a technorati cloud.
Or perhaps show the categories as a cloud…
Thanks for sharing anyway!
Holy Shit!!! This ROCKS!!!!
When I copy and paste the html code into my blogs template….What url do I insert in the code?
I take it hat I change the url and the api to actual values…correct??
I’m going to give this one a try. Thanks for the plugin!!!
You insert your URL so for my blog it would be http://blog.mericson.com
Great plugin, works fantastic, thanks.
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a lot of mistakes
I’ve installed the script, btw have following error :
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: technoratitagcloud() in /home/ntone1a/public_html/index.php on line 6
Any ideas?
Thanks!!
You will need to activate it in your control panel
will this work in blogger template?
thanks!
I dont think it will. Its for wordpress and wordpress.com
Is it possible to have a tag cloud on wordpress.com, i.e., the free blog of WP? It was discussed in the forum but no definite answer. I could not implement this code as it needs to be included in the template, which I’m not privileged. Thanks in advance.
everything is up and running i think, except since i entered into header.php (in a decent place,not messing up code) my blog won’t load. Just taking up memory in FireFox and thats it.
I have to kill the process even..
Any ideas?
Thanks!
So i have put the code in my sidebar template. The easy problem with the code is this:
original: but not working in all templates
right and working for me:
the problem is the space between
I highlight , copy then paste the code in my template. Change the url and API key, but it didn’t work. And then I noticed a space between
Great plugin.
I love this but use Type Pad - have you any idea how to convert it so that it can be used there as well? It’s so cool.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!
great plugin! working fine on my site
Hello,
is this plugin works on wordpress 2.1?
Another site, a minor issue. I am sure it is with my style sheet but… the cloud isn’t displaying different fonts and sizes. Any ideas?
I’ve downloaded the zip file, but cannot install, it opens in notepad….how do I go about it?
I think this is a good article and plugin..
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Will this tags affect the loading time of the site?
Yes. If Technorati is having problems then your blog will slow down. Thats why I added a cache so it only get the tag cloud every hour
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It doesn’t work on my blog. Tried the modified code (without the space) in both sidebars - but the blog won’t load. No error, it just doesn’t load.
Is it my template?
Hi!
Excellent plug-in, tag cloud is working fine !
Work on my blog. Tried the modified code (without the space) in both sidebars - but the blog won’t load. No error, it just doesn’t load.
Is it my template?
It only shows a couple (5 or 6 out of 20+) tags in my tag cloud and even not the ones that are used the most.
Nice idea, but I couldn’t get it to work.
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Thanks for this works very fine!
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