Title: Changing tag cloud widget using functions.php
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Changing tag cloud widget using functions.php

 *  Resolved [Joshua Goodwin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshuagoodwin/)
 * (@joshuagoodwin)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-tag-cloud-widget-using-functionsphp/)
 * I’m trying to use the `functions.php` file to alter the tag cloud widget of a
   theme I’m creating. I’ve managed to create a new widget, called “tag cloud”, 
   however, this is coexisting alongside the default widget, instead of replacing
   it.
 * The following code is the content of my `functions.php` file:
 *     ```
       <?php
       if ( function_exists('register_sidebars') )
           register_sidebars(3);
   
       function widget_merdekareloaded_tags() {
       ?>
       <li id="tag_list" class="widget tag_list">
       <h2>Popular tags</h2>
       <?php
       $tags = get_tags(array(
       'orderby' => 'count',
       'order' => 'DESC',
       'number' => 30,
       ) );
       echo '<ul>
       ';
       foreach ($tags as $tag) {
       echo '<li><a href="' . get_tag_link($tag->term_id) . '" rel="tag">' . $tag->name . '</a> (' . $tag->count . ')</li>
       ';
       }
       echo '</ul>';
       ?></li>
       <?php
       }
       if ( function_exists('register_sidebar_widget') )
           register_sidebar_widget(__('Tag cloud'), 'widget_merdekareloaded_tags');
   
       ?>
       ```
   

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 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-tag-cloud-widget-using-functionsphp/#post-869697)
 * Try this instead of your call to register_sidebar_widget:
 *     ```
       $widget_ops = array('classname' => 'widget_tag_cloud', 'description' => __( "Your most used tags in cloud format") );
       wp_register_sidebar_widget('tag_cloud', __('Tag Cloud'), 'widget_merdekareloaded_tags', $widget_ops);
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Joshua Goodwin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshuagoodwin/)
 * (@joshuagoodwin)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-tag-cloud-widget-using-functionsphp/#post-869706)
 * Thanks, Otto! It works a treat. I actually just found another way to get it working,
   but yours is better.
 *  [blob_php](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blob_php/)
 * (@blob_php)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-tag-cloud-widget-using-functionsphp/#post-870155)
 * Hello,
    … **Your most used tags in cloud format** I am really glad you guys got
   that issue solved, I am still far away from understanding what this tag means,
   excepted that I’ve got a basic demo from the site : [http://www.makecloud.com/](http://www.makecloud.com/)
   that substantially requires a valid **rss URL** and delivers back online, a script
   that is poppin’ a line of links. each one referring to every single **link-url**
   of the **feed.rss** passed in the online form. A demo of that is here : [http://pr.c-php.com/wd/link.htm](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-tag-cloud-widget-using-functionsphp/?output_format=md)
 * That is a very basic thing that doesn’t work with **WordPress 2.7** which I have
   implemented on my server.
 * I found a site online that is promising to fix a plugin for WordPress, but it
   requires **My** WordPress PassWord, sofar I do not trust anyone I opted to download
   their related software **tagcloud_070311**
    …that was a complete failure, as 
   all paths were not found!
 * Can any of you explain me what are the advantages to dig in these clouds?
    …does
   it make any good for SEO ? Even if indirectly, as a crawler might be set to put
   extra attention on those features. If all it does is to make a scrambled area
   linking to the rss resources, it seems to me to be not that interesting.
 * Anyhow if any of you can spend some word in streaming my efforts to the final
   implementation of this (…related to WordPress or not) I would greatly appreciate
   that and insert it in my forum and in my WordPress BLOG with the benefit of the
   source rights.
    Thanks and wishing you all an Happy New Year Vittorio Ognissanti

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