Title: Word Cloud Problem Resolved
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Word Cloud Problem Resolved

 *  [hbyte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hbyte/)
 * (@hbyte)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-cloud-problem-resolved/)
 * Well the task at hand was how do I create a word cloud for a website of mine.
 * Then having reviewed the plugin status for word – clouds it seemed limited to
   tag clouds and therefore I have implemented it using a simple iframe on my site
   please have a looksy:-
 * whatsmystory.just4books.co.uk
 * I think it looks ok , it works by extracting each word from the post(s) and then
   it creates a word cloud using googles javascripted word cloud.
 * From this I then created a tag cloud which links to a google adsense account.
 * I think this is the best way to implement a tag /word cloud on my site and because
   it uses a custom search it can used with an adsense account.
 * The offer is open for someone to come up with a plugin that will do this. The
   code uses three files:
 * extract.php uses fopen() to extract words
    [wc.js](http://just4books.co.uk/just4books_files/wc.js)
   [wc.css](http://just4books.co.uk/just4books_files/wc.css) creates word cloud 
   using javascript and adds links to your google account
 * I will upload these files for anyone to use.
 * I did find that it didnt work on all servers – some dont allow fopen() and you
   get an error. The use of iframes solves this issue and allows you to use the 
   word cloud with google custom search in a wordpress page.
 * here are my two examples:-
 * [http://whatsmystory.just4books.co.uk](http://whatsmystory.just4books.co.uk)
 * and
 * [http://just4books.co.uk](http://just4books.co.uk)
 * word clouds are usefull and interesting aswell

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 *  [mradamrgreen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mradamrgreen/)
 * (@mradamrgreen)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-cloud-problem-resolved/#post-2416869)
 * I have also resorted to exporting all my website’s post contents to a Google 
   spreadsheet then using Google’s word cloud generator to create the word cloud
   to then put back on my site. Its far from ideal because you have to update it
   manually the spreadsheet manually…
 * you can see it here: [http://www.dreamarchive.org/word-cloud](http://www.dreamarchive.org/word-cloud)
 * I would love to see a WordPress Plugin that could do this!!
 * It doesn’t feel like it would be too hard to do for someone that knows what they
   are doing – (unfortunately that isn’t me!)
 * I wonder if something could be done that doesn’t use Google but rather adapts
   something like “[Custom Word Cloud](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-word-cloud/)”?
   But rather than getting the data from the current page/post, instead using the
   export (all posts) function to generate the “list of words” which is then turned
   into a word cloud…..

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 * Last reply from: [mradamrgreen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mradamrgreen/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-cloud-problem-resolved/#post-2416869)
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