Title: [Plugin: WP-Cumulus] Using Google Hosted swfobject.js
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP-Cumulus] Using Google Hosted swfobject.js

 *  [boonkoh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boonkoh/)
 * (@boonkoh)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-cumulus-using-google-hosted-swfobjectjs/)
 * Hi all,
 * I love using the WP-Cumulus tag cloud! I am in the middle of optimizing my wordpress
   blog for speed, as Google has just announced they are taking site speed into 
   account for their ranking algorithm.
 * At the moment I’m not on a dedicated server, and I have seen that many js files
   on my site are creating a bottleneck in site loading speed. I’m in the process
   of calling externally hosted js files on better servers.
 * I see that the swfobject.js file is hosted by Google Code here:
    [http://swfobject.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/swfobject/swfobject.js](http://swfobject.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/swfobject/swfobject.js)
 * However, Google’s version is 2.2, and when I try calling that js file instead
   of the one included with the WP-Cumulus plugin, the cloud refuses to load, and
   I get the standard “you need flash 9 or higher error”
 * I was wondering if Roy or someone else can shed some light on using the v2.2 
   on Google’s server, and what code changes I need to make in order to get it working.
   Alternatively, if someone could point me to a publicly hosted version of the 
   one included with the plugin.
 * Thanks!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/)

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 *  [Roy Tanck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roytanck/)
 * (@roytanck)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-cumulus-using-google-hosted-swfobjectjs/#post-1467073)
 * Moving to the 2.x branch of SWFObject is one of the things that we’re planning
   for version 2.0 of WP-Cumulus. Unfortunately, this new version have been delayed
   quite a bit, and it will still take a while for it to be released. It will be
   much, much lighter, with the Flash movie now being tiny.
 * As a quick fix, you could use the compatibility mode, which uses a simple object
   tag to embed and does not require SWFObject.
 *  Thread Starter [boonkoh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boonkoh/)
 * (@boonkoh)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-cumulus-using-google-hosted-swfobjectjs/#post-1467082)
 * Thanks Roy! Good work with the plugin… I have really liked using it so far, as
   its minimal but slick at the same time.

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