I recently looked for a solution to display my del.icio.us-tags in my blog. An easy task, since there is already a plugin: deliciousTagging (by Jonathan Deutsch). I also like the concept of heatmaps displaying tags in different sizes, because it displays a lot of information on one view and also creates a kind of artwork.
But be careful! There is a risk that tags displayed in different font-sizes are a kind of pre-selected content for the user of your website. So he might be directed to a topic he wasn’t even looking for (which can be good at some point) but the content’s equality and the user’s freedom of choice are disturbed.
You can read more about the danger of using heatmaps for providing an overview of your content on Jeffrey Zeldman’s site.
Nevertheless, I tried to merge the RSS-fetched Tags from del.icio.us with the WordPress Heatmap Plugin.
The result now runs as a plugin in my WP-Installation and works fine for me.
The name of the plugin is prefixed “-bridge” because established a kind of ‘bridge’ between the two plugins:
(The plugins are needed for the plugin to work.)
Download & Usage
To use it, you can display the heatmap anywhere in your template by including the following PHP-Code:
( refer to parameter description of the wordpress-heat-map-plugin for customizing)
<?php heatmap_delicious(); ?>
Live-Demo
You can see how it looks if you visit my tags-page, except I am using equal font sizes for the minimum and maximum count of tags.
Details
The getTagsFromURL()-function is declared in the deliciousTagging-Plugin while the rest of the function heatmap_delicious() mainly consists of the heatmap_categories()-function declared in the original HeatMap-Plugin.
The only difference is that the data is acquired by the deliciousTagging-Plugin instead from the post database-table.
Please refer to the original author’s website for detailed description of the two plugins.
Note:
This is not a standalone plugin. It requires the two WordPress-Plugins mentioned above.
RT @dertimbo WP-Plugin: Heat.icio.us-BridgePosted in Developing, Wordpress, Tags:delicious, heatmap, plugin, social, tagging, Wordpress
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