Update (08-Feb-2008): New version of the Community Cloud plugin is available here.
When I first announced the new design for our blog, I mentioned our new Community Cloud, which displays a “tag cloud” of all the people in our community who have contributed to our blog by commenting. The more someone has commented, the bigger and bolder the link. Sound good? Then get one for your wordpress blog. I’ve released the Community Cloud as a plugin for you to download here.
How do you Install it?
- Download and Extract the Community Cloud plugin
- Upload it via FTP to your wordpress plugins directory (/wp-content/plugins/)
- Activate the Community Cloud in the Plugins section of your blog’s admin.
- In the Options -> Community Cloud section change the default settings to fit your blog.
Ok, it’s Installed. How do I use it?
Once installed, to display the community cloud on your blog you can either
- Create a new Page on your blog and in the Page Content area, enter the following tag where you want the community cloud to appear, <!–community cloud–> and publish.
- Or, there is also sidebar widget. So you can just go to the Widgets tab within the Presentations menu and drag-n-drop the Community Cloud widget into your sidebar.
Click here to download the latest version of the Community Cloud
Have Fun. 
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.And this is not working in the theme!
- is not working. this php has got a strange sign, not the usual (”). I have tryied few option like (””) () (”) (,) nothing works. what can I do ?
Hi!
I love this plugin but it doesn’t work in my sidebar.
I put
please help me!!!!
Hi,
First of all, great plugin, really like the idea. That being said, I would really like to put this on my blog, but its not working. On the WP Plugin Database or whatever its called, it says that its not compatible with WP 2.6, so i assume thats why its not working.
So I ask you, my friend, is this plugin going to be updated to work with WP 2.6?
Thanks for your work.
Completely ignore my previous post. Ive fixed the problem. the plugin works perfectly on WP 2.6
Thanks for your work.
i am using it on my blog about page ( http://www.lo5e.com/about) now.
ok so i clicked on download
and nothing happened
nada
Ok, I have read all comment to here and I am still not able to get this plug in working.
Ideally I would like to have it in my ui.tabs.php but this is simply not working (that is static on the website, but not a page, it is on the frontpage of the blog, found under “home”).
I have tried all variations of the php echo text to no avail. I even tried to put it on a page with the text given in the description above. No go.
The only thing I was totally unable to understand HOW to do was the tip to change the CHMOD number. WHERE do I do that? (Or do I need to do that?)
This is a neat application, would love to have it on my blog!
Thanks for your help!
thank you…
ibonette
I like it, thanks….
looks good, i like it.
Thank , i like it ..
It works! Thanks! I would like to have the code expressed as a template tag (a function) to put this in my sidebar without using Widgets. Is it possible?
Also I would like the same code for purposes of putting an “IF plugin exists, then do this function… ELSE if plugin is deactivated, then put something else.”
Looking forward to installing this folks, awesome way to give credit back to your heavy commenters. May I suggest sending the plugin over to lifehacker..
Thanks Mark, I might just do that, however I have a version 2 of the community cloud plugin coming soon, that is faster, more efficient and includes a social HCard on commenters links, so when I’m ready to release that I’ll post it over to lifehacker and see if they like it.
I like this plugin, but I would love to be able to click a commenter in the cloud and see a page showing all his/her comments. Each comment is listed as a clickable link to the title of the page/post and date. Make the comment show ‘x’ number of characters as a excerpt only. Yes, it would need paging maybe, but this would be a great way to see what people have said.
Show gravatar would also be very nice. Lots of possibilities to build communities for future development …
Thanks, I’ve been thinking that also
I’ll be releasing v2.0 soon, so I’ll try to put this feature in v2.1
Thanks for you quick reply Miguel! I will look forward to those new features very much. This is great plugin for building communities and linking people together. Good luck with your next release.
When I use the it does not seem to work. Any ideas? Thanks!
@Jake I’ve just posted the community cloud version 2.0 plugin. Try that one here
If you have the old version installed already, you’ll need to deactivate and reactivate the plugin after uploading the new files.
I am trying to display the comment cloud in the footer but I cannot get it to run with the !comment command. Is that because the plug-in files only load in the sidebar?
The plugin should be able to be called from anywhere in your theme.
If you need to display the cloud from within your theme try the following code.
<?php print community_cloud_display("<!--community cloud-->"); ?>Thanks for your comment regarding feature requests, Miguel. I have run into a small problem, maybe a bug? On my community cloud here I have several commenters listed. Here is what happens
1- I have 2 different commenters Both with the same username but different email addresses (unregistered commenters can do this)
2- One of the commenters shows a website address, the other does not have one entered.
3- In the community tag cloud, it only shows one of these commenters, the one with the website address.
4- The other commenter does Not appear.
5- Also, the commenter that appears shows the combined comment count for BOTH commenters.
I hope I explain this well?
The above scenario is wrong: both commenters should be showing in the cloud, one clickable, one not and the clickable one should only show their own post count.
Any ideas??
Anyways, I’ve created the community cloud plugin version 2.0 which I released yesterday which should fix the problem you described. It now filters commenters by unique email address rather than name.
check it out, http://www.webaddict.co.za/community-cloud
Great news for the update and thanks for filtering unique emails rather than usernames. Did I see small avatars in the your version here?? Hope so, that’s a good idea. Looking forward to being able to see all comments by a user feature …
Yeah, if it finds an hCard for the commenter’s link then it display’s their favicon also to distinguish between those that have and those that don’t have social hCards.
I didn’t do it for all links because it ends up looking quite messy.
I have tried install the latest version and I’m getting an error as below..
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare community_cloud_menu() (previously declared in /home/****/public_html/***.com/wp-content/plugins/community_cloud/community_cloud.php:17) in /home/****/public_html/****.com/wp-content/plugins/community_cloud
Any advice please? Thanks
Hmm… , That sounds like you have the plugin uploaded and activate two places (perhaps an old one and a new one) and wordpress is trying to access both plugins.
I think your best option is to just remove all instances of the plugin and reupload the latest plugin.
Hope that helps.
If that’s not the case, please tell me more. I’m not sure how else it would come up with that error, as the community_cloud_menu() function isn’t declared on line 17 in the latest version of the plugin, it’s on line 127
I tried to install this again and it was fully successful, thanks… I think I was experiencing a little wordpress cache problem. Sometimes it just catches me out.!
Hi, its possible to show a limit? Like the most 100 people…
Thanks a lot
Only when using the widget, or if calling the community cloud display function directly in your theme using
community_cloud_display("<!--community cloud-->", 100);the second argument is the limit.
I should really make it so you can specify
, but I’ll update that in the next release.
Chinese Characters show as question marks.
How do I change the character encoding?
it’s not working in my site…
http://aimeenvincible.net/about/community-cloud/
Nice plugin for creating community using the wordpress
Thank for sharing
great plugin!
<!–community cloud–> is now working in wordpress page. wat is the problem? its sidebar widget is working fine. you can see my page http://enewsz.com/hi/
<!–community cloud–> is not working in wordpress page. wat is the problem? its sidebar widget is working fine. you can see my page http://enewsz.com/hi/
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