imsleepy
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Don’t everyone laugh at once. I am sure this qualifies for the “Dumbest Question of the Year” award…. :-[
What is Tags Cloud?
John Wesley Brett
Moderator
A module that senses the tags or keywords of your content…and displays them in varying font sizes based on their popularity.
imsleepy
Friend
So it generates all these words automatically? What is the purpose of it? Other than looking really messy….
imsleepy
Friend
One more thing… I notice on the JA Cooper some are links… does it generate that automatically as well? Really confudded on this one. Totally new to me…
BTW… thanks for not laughing… :p
jsliao
Friend
they are for your visitors to see which topics do you focus on cos each tag will have its own ‘weight’ (ie larger fonts represent ‘heavier’ items)
jsliao
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<em>@imsleepy 112426 wrote:</em><blockquote>One more thing… I notice on the JA Cooper some are links… does it generate that automatically as well? Really confudded on this one. Totally new to me…
BTW… thanks for not laughing… :p</blockquote>
the links are supposed to bring the visitor to articles with the same tag as the one they click so they can actually choose to read items they are interested in
John Wesley Brett
Moderator
And yes…it generates them automatically.
In the JA_COOPER tag cloud you’ll see that BMV is larger than Hyundai…which means there are more stories which mention BMV than Hyundai. Sort of a “most popular topics” on a web site.
The Cooper tag cloud is really just a demo and doesn’t work. But if it did, when you clicked on BMV you would see a list of stories mentioning “BMV” and that list would be longer than the list you would see if you clicked Hyundai and so on.
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christimcginley
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<em>@jbrett 112471 wrote:</em><blockquote>And yes…it generates them automatically.
In the JA_COOPER tag cloud you’ll see that BMV is larger than Hyundai…which means there are more stories which mention BMV than Hyundai. Sort of a “most popular topics” on a web site.
The Cooper tag cloud is really just a demo and doesn’t work. But if it did, when you clicked on BMV you would see a list of stories mentioning “BMV” and that list would be longer than the list you would see if you clicked Hyundai and so on.</blockquote>
jbrett, thanks for the info re: JA Cooper Tags Cloud module. I’m using JA Cooper Business on my site and want the Tags Cloud module to show the actual tags for my site now that it is nearly live with posts, etc. How do I make it do that?
When I looked at the module itself, it had a bunch of text/links that were unrelated to my site’s content in the module which, once removed, made the Tags Cloud module disappear.
Thank you in advance for any guidance! I can’t find anything in the documentation about how to do this.
John Wesley Brett
Moderator
Christi
First off…welcome to the neighborhood!
Now to your question…first off I don’t have the Cooper template so I’m not exactly sure whether it has a Tag Cloud module installed. – The one on the DEMO is NOT a tag cloud module…just a demostration of what it might could look like.
Goto EXTENSIONS > MODULES > and look for content in USER 10 position.
That’s where that Module in the DEMO is located. If you open it you’ll find its just HTML…NOT a module.
Here’s where you can find a pretty good Tag Cloud.
http://code.google.com/p/joomla-tag-cloud/
Good luck!
John.
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christimcginley
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Ah, ok. You’ve confirmed what I thought I was seeing. I’ll check out the link for the Tag Cloud extension you reference.
Thank you for your quick and accurate response!
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