{"id":1014,"date":"2016-03-29T14:31:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T21:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2018-02-18T12:24:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T20:24:20","slug":"wordpress-how-to-filter-tag-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wordpress-how-to-filter-tag-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress: How to Filter Tag Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you remove this limit, I\u2019d think about marking the page with \u201cnoindex\u201d if you\u2019re worried about SEO.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, you can change the tag cloud limit to a number less than 45 too.<\/p>\n<pre>$args[number] = 10; \/\/ New limit for number of tags<\/pre>\n<p>The tag cloud widget isn\u2019t used much now as it was about 5 years ago. There are warnings that it could cause a negative impact on SEO due to \u201ckeyword\u201d stuffing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Display Unlimited Tags<\/h2>\n<p>Why would I need unlimited tags? I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re thinking that this sounds like a nightmare, and it probably would be unless used correctly. For this client, it didn&#8217;t make sense to create a visual &#8220;cloud&#8221; of words manually, or with categories. And, since we&#8217;re all used to effortlessly scrolling down a page, it felt like a good addition to the site.<\/p>\n<div class=\"oembed-gist\"><script src=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/gstricklind\/436fbe9bbf92410b8b01d2a412ca8e08.js\"><\/script><noscript>View the code on <a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/gstricklind\/436fbe9bbf92410b8b01d2a412ca8e08\">Gist<\/a>.<\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1948\" src=\"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-18-at-12.05.21-PM-1030x914.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1030\" height=\"914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-18-at-12.05.21-PM-1030x914.png 1030w, https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-18-at-12.05.21-PM-80x71.png 80w, https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-18-at-12.05.21-PM-500x443.png 500w, https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-18-at-12.05.21-PM-705x625.png 705w, https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-18-at-12.05.21-PM-450x399.png 450w, https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-18-at-12.05.21-PM.png 1221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, I used\u00a0css to alter the font size and weight, since the tags would never be used more than once:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>\/*.tagcloud a:nth-child(odd) {\r\n font-size: 24px !important;\r\n}\r\n.tagcloud a:nth-child(even) {\r\n font-size: 14px !important;\r\n}*\/\r\n.tagcloud a:nth-child(2n) { \r\n font-size: 30px !important; \r\n}\r\n.tagcloud a:nth-child(3n) { \r\n font-size: 26px !important; \r\n font-family: \"Gotham Ultra\";\r\n}\r\n.tagcloud a:nth-child(5n) { \r\n font-size: 50px !important; \r\n font-family: \"Gotham Bold\";\r\n}<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you remove this limit, I\u2019d think about marking the page with \u201cnoindex\u201d if you\u2019re worried about SEO. Additionally, you can change the tag cloud limit to a number less than 45 too. $args[number] = 10; \/\/ New limit for number of tags The tag cloud widget isn\u2019t used much now as it was about 5 years ago. There are warnings that it could cause a negative impact on SEO due to \u201ckeyword\u201d stuffing. &nbsp; Display Unlimited Tags Why would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginastricklind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}