Mar 18 2008
Tag Clouds and Recent Article Lists on the Wardman Wire
I’ve added a couple of extra features to the blog today - a tag cloud covering 1200 articles, and a feed of recent articles at the bottom of the “single article” page.
Wardman Wire Tag Cloud
The first is that I have turned on the tag cloud page in Beta Form:
About 90% of our posts (i.e., nearly all of mine and some of the other writers’) were tagged when written, and I have turned the feature on this morning. The number after the tag is the number of times that tag has been used.
Tags included here have occurred at least 4 times in the past year. There is clearly some “noise-removal” to do, but I hope that in the meantime this page provides an alternate way to navigate our posts.
Comments will be welcome.
Recently Posted Articles
I have also introduced a “recently posted list” going below single posts and pages (example - scroll to the bottom), as a way of (I hope) persuading those dedicated people who read all the way to the bottom of the comments to read another article.
This works by pasting an RSS feed below the post by calling a plugin called “Feedlist“.
This was a slightly more complex job than I had intended, and in the end I created a custom feed through Yahoo Pipes (which was necessary to truncate the post excerpt to a reasonable length).
I still need to trim the excerpt it to “end of word”.
This is still in Beta too - comments are welcome.