Friday, May 15, 2009

How to Add a Tag Cloud

There are a lot of tutorials out there explaining how to add a tag cloud to your Blogger page. Some of them are kind of complicated but this is one of the easiest tutorials I found: Frivolous Motion.

A couple of points I'd like to add:
  1. Use the "Find" feature in your browser to find the location in the template HTML; it will make your life so much easier. You can find the search feature under the "Edit" tab in your browser window.
  2. The directions call for inserting the copied code above the line: b:widget id='Label1' locked='false' title='Labels' type='Label'/. This doesn't work and will create an error message. Paste the code over the line and replace it instead.
  3. Add a title to your cloud by inserting the name between: b:includable id='main'
    and
    b:if cond='data:title != ""' within the tag cloud code.
  4. Remember that if your change your Blogger template, you'll lose your tag cloud.

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