Tag cloud doesn’t change
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The old tags in my tag cloud don’t give way to newer ones which I use more. How can I solve this problem?
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Thank you. Unfortunately, the Tag Cloud lists only the first forty six (or is it 42?) tags you use. It does not change after that, sadly. You could make a widget listing all your tags that would look like the Categories widget, but you’d have to do it by hand in a text widget, and it wouldn’t update with the number of entries in each tag.
The linear Categories widget does update.
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No: unless something has changed, the tag cloud displays the 45 most used tags; it’s just that it takes some time to update.
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Ah, thanks. I should never answer forum posts before I’ve had my coffee. Does it take longer than the usual half-hour to update the sidebar?
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Related to this question, if you post new tags with a new blog entry, but they don’t show up in the tag cloud, do they still get hits in searches?
The Tag Cloud is really just a way for people who visit your site to click on tags of possible interest, correct?
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They could, but they have less search engine juice than something that shows up in a widget.
And yes, that’s its main function, but it also adds a little googlejuice to your blog for each of those terms. The more times a specific term shows up on your blog, the higher you rank in searches for it.
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@rain (re 10:51 PM post): Haven’t actually tested it, but it can definitely be longer than half an hour – here’s a relevant thread:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/tag-cloud-5?replies=7#post-384389
I read that and checked the blog hours after it had been posted, and the tags were still missing; eventually they showed up (don’t know how long it actually took).
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