How To: Display A WordPress Tag Cloud On Your Blog

Depending on how your WordPress blog is set up, you may have an interest in displaying your WordPress tags for your readers to dig through in a nice looking cloud format. This is something that is very nice for readers to see, as long as you are responsible with your tagging and don’t use an overwhelming number of tags.

In order to display tags on your WordPress blog, you’ll just want to add this little code snippet whenever you want the tag cloud to display (usually in the sidebar or footer somewhere depending on your blogs layout).

Here is the code you’ll need:

<?php wp_tag_cloud(''); ?>

WordPress also allows you to customize your cloud to display the way you want it to. Most people like to emphasize the most used tags by making their font much larger. You can determine the size using the following code:

<?php wp_tag_cloud('smallest=8&largest=36&'); ?>

In this example, the tags will be displayed in alphabetical order with the least used tags being 8px and the most used tags will be 36px. You can of course adjust this to meet your needs.