=== Plugin Name === Contributors: Netlife Donate link: http://netlife.com.au/2009/06/28/wordle-your-wordpress-flash-based-tag-cloud-plugin/ Tags: tag cloud, flash, plugin, fatcloud, fat cloud, netlife, wordle, word cloud, wordcloud Requires at least: 2.7.1 Tested up to: 2.8 Stable tag: 0.6 Netlife's Flash Tag Cloud plugin for WordPress - FatCloud! Wordle your WordPress. Beautiful tag clouds that are accessible & SEO friendly. == Description == A flash-based tag cloud plugin for your WordPress blog. FatCloud, by [Netlife](http://www.netlife.com.au "Web Design Blog"), comes with 2 built in themes: 'Simple Skin' and the popular 'Wordle' theme. Choose text angle, colour, size ratio and much more. Beautiful tag clouds that are accessible & SEO friendly. The `wp_fat_cloud()` function is an extension of the built-in WordPress wp\_tag\_cloud() function. It will accept all the same arguments, and generates almost identical mark-up, with some added JavaScript to render a SWF on top. FatCloud requires PHP 5.2+, JavaScript and the Adobe Flash Player 10+ browser plugin. == Installation == 1. Upload the entire 'netlifes-tag-cloud-fatcloud' directory to your wp-content/plugins directory. 2. Enable the plugin in the WordPress Plugins menu 3. Configure FatCloud using the WordPress > Settings > FatCloud page. 4. Add the tag somewhere in your template. == Frequently Asked Questions == = What are the system requirements for using FatCloud? = FatCloud has been successfully tested with Wordpress 2.7.1 on PHP5.2+. We have not tested it on 5.1.x. There is no support for PHP4 (sorry!). If you have problems on these (or other) configurations, feel free to [submit a comment](http://netlife.com.au/2009/06/28/wordle-your-wordpress-flash-based-tag-cloud-plugin/#comments) on Netlife. = Why do I get an error after activating version 0.1? = Our initial release did not allow for a different plugin folder name. If you downloaded version 0.1, parse errors are expected after activation i.e. 'parse error, unexpected =,'. To resolve this temporary issue, FTP into your website and rename the plugin directory from 'wp-content/plugins/netlifes-tag-cloud-fatcloud' to 'wp-content/plugins/wp\_fat\_cloud'. We have since pushed up revision 0.2 to resolve this issue. = Why does my browser freeze after I add new tags? = FatCloud is doing some pretty hard-core rendering back there. Once it renders, it caches the render data on the server, but it needs to re-render whenever its data changes. A 45 second render time is pretty normal. It will happen only once after a new tag is added to wordpress. == Screenshots == 1. An example of a FatCloud tag cloud using the 'Wordle' theme 2. General settings available 3. Settings available for the built-in 'Wordle' theme == Changelog == = 0.1 = * Initial release. Hooray! = 0.2 = * Changed plug-in directory name to be consistent with SVN path * Added PHP 5.2+ to system requirements = 0.3 = * Some users reported a MySQL invalid resource warning when installing FatCloud. The code in question has been re-written with extra care, so future installations should be error-free. = 0.4 = * Added support for user defined wordpress table prefix's. We had previously assumed the options table would always be called wp_options. = 0.5 = * Fixed a javascript bug in Internet Explorer browsers that was causing FatCloud tag cloud to appear blank = 0.6 = * Plugin now includes a widget, thanks to Roel S.F. Abspoel