Title: [Plugin: Ultimate Tag Cloud Widget] Shortcode options not working
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Ultimate Tag Cloud Widget] Shortcode options not working

 *  [l0rily](https://wordpress.org/support/users/l0rily/)
 * (@l0rily)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ultimate-tag-cloud-widget-shortcode-options-not-working/)
 * You’ve got a great set of features for your plugin! Very nice!
 * Unfortunately, some of the options don’t work when passed as shortcode attributes.
   The shortcode I’m using is:
    ` [utcw post_type="clients" title=" " before_title
   ="<h3>" after_title="</h3>" before_widget="<div class='bordered-post'>" after_widget
   ="</div>" color="random"]
 * I wanted to hide the title, but when I set the show_title_text=”off” or “false”
   or anything else, it always comes back true and displays the title. I got around
   it temporarily by using a space for the title (title=” “). But I think you need
   to convert the string value to a boolean in your code before calling do_utcw(&
   args), like you do in the update function. This would apply to other values that
   are expected to be anything other than a string as well (boolean, numeric).
 * Also, I wanted to add some HTML markup before and after the title and widget 
   area (i.e. before_title=”<h3>” after_title=”</h3>” before_widget=”<div class=’
   bordered-post’>” after_widget=”</div>”). However these strings are not encoded
   properly for display. I had to modify the plugin code to decode each string properly
   before being displayed as in the following example:
    ` echo html_entity_decode(
   $before_widget);
 * Can you please fix these items in the next release?
 * Thanks so much!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-tag-cloud-widget/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-tag-cloud-widget/)

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 * Last reply from: [l0rily](https://wordpress.org/support/users/l0rily/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-ultimate-tag-cloud-widget-shortcode-options-not-working/)
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