Wordpress Tag Limit

By Ron Killian on April 5th, 2008

Life’s no fun if your not always learning.

Here’s something about Wordpress I learned the other day.

I’ve been getting into using tags on some of my blogs, why not, some easy extra SEO. Though I am not so vigilant on this blog. Wordpress even makes tagging easy with a built in Tag Cloud Widget. Course it’s not all always that great…

After posting on a number of my blogs I was starting to noticed some of the new tags I had been adding to posts, where not showing in the tag cloud. Hmm.. not good. Did I break Wordpress? Wouldn’t be the first time.

I got to asking around and come to find out, the built Tag Cloud in Wordpress has a limit to the number of tags that display. Seems there is not exact number, but the limit looks to be about 45.

Easy Fix…

Get yourself a good tag cloud plug-in. I’ve been experimenting with the Configurable Tag Cloud Plugin and working great so far. Not only can you set the limit of tags displayed, if there even is a limit, but you can also set just about anything else. You can set the colors for big to small, the font sizes and pretty much everything else.

That’s my lesson for today.

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