Add Label Cloud Widget For Blogger

Blogger Hacks- How To Put Widgets Label Cloud Or Widgets Tag Cloud On Blogger Sidebar



A tag cloud or label cloud for blogger is a list of all the labels used within a blogger blog displayed with style.You can see a demo of the Label cloud widget here on my site. This Tag Cloud Widget was originally developed by phydeaux3. I have just simplified and made it easier to install..

You can see a good implementation of this label cloud widget on one of our readers blog -Speak Media Blog.
First Of all Goto Your blogger Layout>Page Elements page and add a Labels Widget there..You can Do that using the Add a Page Element Option on that page.

Blogger Hacks- How To Put Widgets Label Cloud Or Widgets Tag Cloud On Blogger Sidebar



Choose to sort the labels Alphabetically when prompted.

After Adding the Label Widget Goto Layout>Edit Html (Do not expand the widget templates for the sake of easy explanation)

You will find some code similar to

<b:widget id='Label1' locked='false' title='Labels' type='Label'/>

Add Code New

<b:widget id='Label1' locked='false' title='Label Cloud' type='Label'>
 <b:includable id='main'>
 <b:if cond='data:title'>
 <h2><data:title/></h2>
 </b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
 <div id='labelCloud'/>
  <p align='center'>
  <script type='text/javascript'>
  var cloudMin = 1;
  var maxFontSize = 25;
  var maxColor = [0,255,0];
  var minFontSize = 10;
  var minColor = [0,0,0];
  var lcShowCount = false;
  // Don't change anything past this point -----------------
  // Cloud function s() ripped from del.icio.us
  function s(a,b,i,x){
  if(a&gt;b){
  var m=(a-b)/Math.log(x),v=a-Math.floor(Math.log(i)*m)
  }
  else{
  var m=(b-a)/Math.log(x),v=Math.floor(Math.log(i)*m+a)
  }
  return v
  }

var c=[];
  var labelCount = new Array(); 
  var ts = new Object;
  <b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'>
  var theName = &quot;<data:label.name/>&quot;;
  ts[theName] = <data:label.count/>;
  </b:loop>
for (t in ts){
  if (!labelCount[ts[t]]){
  labelCount[ts[t]] = new Array(ts[t])
  }
  }
  var ta=cloudMin-1;
  tz = labelCount.length - cloudMin;
  lc2 = document.getElementById(&#39;labelCloud&#39;);
  ul = document.createElement(&#39;ul&#39;);
  ul.className = &#39;label-cloud&#39;;
  for(var t in ts){
  if(ts[t] &lt; cloudMin){
  continue;
  }
  for (var i=0;3 &gt; i;i++) {
  c[i]=s(minColor[i],maxColor[i],ts[t]-ta,tz)
  } 
  var fs = s(minFontSize,maxFontSize,ts[t]-ta,tz);
  li = document.createElement(&#39;li&#39;);
  li.style.fontSize = fs+&#39;px&#39;;
a = document.createElement(&#39;a&#39;);
  a.title = ts[t]+&#39; Posts in &#39;+t;
  a.style.color = &#39;rgb(&#39;+c[0]+&#39;,&#39;+c[1]+&#39;,&#39;+c[2]+&#39;)&#39;;
  a.href = &#39;/search/label/&#39;+encodeURIComponent(t);
  if (lcShowCount){
  span = document.createElement(&#39;span&#39;);
  span.innerHTML = &#39;(&#39;+ts[t]+&#39;) &#39;;
  span.className = &#39;label-count&#39;;
  a.appendChild(document.createTextNode(t));
  li.appendChild(a);
  li.appendChild(span);
  }
  else {
  a.appendChild(document.createTextNode(t));
  li.appendChild(a);
  }
  ul.appendChild(li);
  abnk = document.createTextNode(&#39; &#39;);
  ul.appendChild(abnk);
  }
  lc2.appendChild(ul); 
  </script>
  </p>
  <noscript>
  <ul>
  <b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'>
  <li>
  <b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:label.url'>
  <data:label.name/>
  <b:else/>
  <a expr:href='data:label.url'><data:label.name/></a>
  </b:if>
  (<data:label.count/>)
  </li>
  </b:loop>
  </ul>
  </noscript>
  <b:include name='quickedit'/>
  </div>
</b:includable>
 </b:widget>

Now find

]]></b:skin>

Add CSS Label Cloud Widgets for Blogger

#labelCloud {text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;}
#labelCloud .label-cloud li{display:inline;background-image:none !important;padding:0 5px;margin:0;vertical-align:baseline !important;border:0 !important;}
#labelCloud ul{list-style-type:none;margin:0 auto;padding:0;}
#labelCloud a img{border:0;display:inline;margin:0 0 0 3px;padding:0}
#labelCloud a{text-decoration:none}
#labelCloud a:hover{text-decoration:underline}
#labelCloud li a{}
#labelCloud .label-cloud {}
#labelCloud .label-count {padding-left:0.2em;font-size:9px;color:#000}
#labelCloud .label-cloud li:before{content:"" !important}
]]></b:skin>

Save your template and now you should get a working Label Cloud On your Blog.

How to Add Label Cloud Widget For Blogger

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How to Add flash Animated label cloud Blogumus for Blogger

How to Add flash Animated label cloud Blogumus for Blogger



"Blogumus" is an Flash based tag cloud widget which uses scripts converted from Roy Tanck's WP Cumulus plugin for Wordpress. I fell in love with Roy's original Cumulus plugin when I saw it, and simply had to learn how to convert this for use in Blogger powered blogs. The result is the widget you can see in action at the top of this post. Hover your mouse over the Flash object to see the animation begin. In this post, I'll explain how you can add Blogumus to your own Blogger layout with ease!

How to Add flash Animated label cloud Blogumus for Blogger

Step 1:
First Of all Goto Your blogger Layout>Page Elements page and add a Labels Widget there..You can Do that using the Add a Page Element Option on that



Choose to sort the labels Alphabetically when prompted.

Step 2:
After Adding the Label Widget Goto Layout>Edit Html (Do not expand the widget templates for the sake of easy explanation)

You will find some code similar to

<b:widget id='Label2' locked='false' title='Labels Cloud' type='Label'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:title'>
<h2><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
<ul>
<b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'>
<li>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:label.url'>
<span expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection'>
<data:label.name/>
</span>
<b:else/>
<a expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' expr:href='data:label.url'>
<data:label.name/>
</a>
</b:if>
<span dir='ltr'>(<data:label.count/>)</span>
</li>
</b:loop>
</ul>
<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</div>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>

Immediatly after this line, paste the following section of code:

<b:widget id='Label1' locked='false' title='Labels' type='Label'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:title'>
<h2><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'><center>

<script src='http://halotemplates.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-cumulus-example/swfobject.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<div id='flashcontent'>Blogumulus by <a
href='http://www.roytanck.com/'>Roy Tanck</a> and <a
href='http://www.bloggerbuster.com'>Amanda
Fazani</a> | Distributed by <a href='http://blogger-templates-designs.blogspot.com/'>Blogger Templates Designs</a></div>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var so = new
SWFObject("http://halotemplates.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-cumulus-example/tagcloud.swf",
"tagcloud", "240", <!-- width="240" -->
"300", "7", <!-- height="300" -->
"#ffffff");
// uncomment next line to enable transparency
//so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
so.addVariable("tcolor", "0x333333");
so.addVariable("mode", "tags");
so.addVariable("distr", "true");
so.addVariable("tspeed", "100");
so.addVariable("tagcloud",
"<tags><b:loop values='data:labels'
var='label'><a expr:href='data:label.url'
style='12'><data:label.name/></a></b:loop></tags>");
so.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "always");
so.write("flashcontent");
</script>

 <b:include name='quickedit'/></center>
</div>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>

Then preview your template. If installed correctly, you should see the tag cloud appear in your sidebar.
If you want to change the size and colour of the label cloud , just play around with the highlighted numbers in the code and you will do fine.

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