Guidance to customization

Actually price tags didn’t support custom background colors. I’ve implemented it in the new version 0.8.3. Please update your plugin.

In order to customize the widget that way, you’ll have to set:
1) Display=Categories
2) Format=Price tags
3) Font color=#000000
4) Background color=#ffffff

Please give it a try and let me know whether it is what you had in mind.

You do not need to use the short code in order to display the category cloud in the widget area.

To display the category cloug in the widget area, there is a special widget provided by the plugin:

Go to your Dashboard. On the left select Appearance, then Widgets.There is a widget called “Category Tag Cloud” (with the description “WP Category Tag Cloud “). Drag this widget to the Sidebar on the right. And specify there the settings I’ve listed in my previous answer. Press “Save” when you are done.

Great that you could get it working the way you wanted to !
Don’t forget you can write a review for the plugin if you find it useful.

Hi,

In order to set a height, you could add the following to your theme stylesheet:

canvas.tagcloud-canvas {
height: 300px;
}

In order to change the hover color, you will need to edit one of the files of the plugin: wpctc.tagcanvas.min.js.

Search for: outlineThickness:0

And before it add: outlineColour:’#ff0000′,

(of course replacing #ff0000 by the appropriate color).

So the code would look like: …$(this).tagcanvas({outlineColour:’#ff0000′,outlineThickness:0,textFont:null,…

I am currently short on time to update the plugin but I’ll add an option for both settings in the next update (just not sure when it will be available).

Note that version 1.5 now provides a setting (Border Color) to specify the color of the outline in the 3D cloud. So there is no need to update the javascript file manually anymore.