Sidebar tag cloud

A smaller tag cloud makes an appearance

Inspired by Pebble user Laust M. Ladefoged, Pebble 2.0 now has the ability to display a tag cloud anywhere you like, such as your blog sidebar. Here's a screenshot of my sidebar tag cloud.

Tag cloud

Of course, the main tag cloud is still available. The choice is yours.



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Thanks Simon, good job.

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Hey Simon. Are you going to replace categories with tags? Because in pebble 2.0 I no longer see any mention to categories. I guess they kind of overlap but I don't know if eliminating categories is a good thing.

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Categories are still there, in the same way they were before, they just aren't rendered by default in the current version. Instead, there's a blog entry decorator that renders them in the same way tags are rendered.

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The plugins append on the BlogEntry footer (with tags and technocrati tags) the categories of the single blog entry. This using:

"net.sourceforge.pebble.plugin.decorator.BlogCategoriesDecorator" Can we use the old style categories in the headers like old pebble ? Best Regards remagio

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Sorry, I forgot to mention that I still need to add the list of categories somewhere on the page, perhaps in the sidebar underneath the search box/tags links, or perhaps through a specific "Categories" link. To be decided, so I'm open to suggestions.

It's worth noting that the feature where users could click on a specific category and only see entries in that category has been removed. Although useful, you wouldn't believe the number of "I'm confused, where have my blog entries gone?" e-mails I get about it! Now, when you click on a category link, it does the same as if you click on a tag - behaves as if you've done a search.

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Why not a left sidebar for boxes like categories and/or tags ? You could "navigate" the blogsite without scrolling many pages...

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What about the behavior of RPC pings and categories? If I want to post an entry on JavaBlogs.com, I select the Java category so it shows up there via the RPC ping feature. Will a Java tag achieve the same effect? Also, have the categorized feeds been removed?

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Category and tag specific feeds are still available as before. Just append "?category=X" or "?tag=X" to the newsfeed URL.

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