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In the vast ocean of WordPress, tags play a significant role in organizing your content and helping users navigate your website. However, the default appearance of the tag cloud widget may not always align with your overall website’s design or aesthetic appeal. The good news is, you don’t have to stick with the default. In this guide, we’ll explore different ways to style your tag cloud, so it seamlessly blends in with the rest of your WordPress website.
function wpturbo_tag_cloud_styles($args) {
$args['largest'] = 22;
$args['smallest'] = 10;
$args['unit'] = 'px';
return $args;
}
add_filter('widget_tag_cloud_args', 'wpturbo_tag_cloud_styles');
The presented code snippet is all about customizing the WordPress tag cloud widget’s styles. Let’s decode it step by step.
To start, a function wpturbo_tag_cloud_styles() is defined. This function’s purpose is to modify certain parameters of WordPress’s default tag cloud widget.
function wpturbo_tag_cloud_styles($args) {This function accepts one argument which is commonly denoted as $args. This argument is an array that holds numerous parameters which dictate how WordPress’s tag cloud widget is displayed.
The following three lines inside this function specify the new modifications we want to introduce to the default tag cloud styles.
$args['largest'] = 22;
$args['smallest'] = 10;
$args['unit'] = 'px'; Here, $args['largest'] = 22; modifies the size of the largest tag in the cloud to 22 pixels. That indicates that the most popular or most frequently used tag will have a font size of 22 pixels.
Next, $args['smallest'] = 10; changes the smallest possible tag size to 10 pixels, suggesting that the least used or least popular tag in the cloud will have a font size of 10px.
Finally, setting $args['unit'] = 'px'; signifies that the unit for the smallest and the largest properties will be in pixels.
The function is complete with the return $args; command, which sees that the modified $args array is returned back, making sure that the changes are indeed applied.
return $args;
}In the final part of the snippet, we connect our function to the WordPress ecosystem by adding a filter.
add_filter('widget_tag_cloud_args', 'wpturbo_tag_cloud_styles');Here, add_filter() is a in-built WordPress function which allows you to ‘filter’ default functionality and replace or enhance it with your own. In our case, 'widget_tag_cloud_args' is the filter we are hooking into, and 'wpturbo_tag_cloud_styles' is the function we are hooking into this filter.
Hence, this single line of code is responsible for ensuring that our custom settings are applied instead of the default settings whenever the tag cloud widget is rendered. Thus, successfully modifying the overall appearance of the tag cloud in WordPress.