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Dreamy Tags

by Lewis E. Moten III

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Description

A specialized tag cloud generator designed for blogs, archives, and taxonomy-based layouts. Dreamy Tags allows you to filter displayed tags by category, exclude organizational tags, and control minimum usage thresholds for cleaner, more meaningful tag clouds.

Development

Source code and build tools are maintained publicly on GitHub: https://github.com/lewismoten/dreamy-tags
Build instructions are documented in the repository README.

Developer Notes

Developers may adjust the maximum number of posts scanned by the block
using the dreamy_tags_max_posts filter.

Default: 2000

Example:
add_filter( ‘dreamy_tags_max_posts’, function () {
return 10000;
});

License

This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later.

All artwork and icons included with this plugin were created by the author and are licensed under the same GPL license as the plugin.

You can install Dreamy Tags directly from the WordPress Plugin Directory.

  1. Upload the dreamy-tags folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. Use Dreamy Tags in one of the following ways:
    • Add the “Dreamy Tags” widget via Appearance > Widgets or the Site Editor.
    • Insert the “Dreamy Tags” block in the block editor.
    • Use the [dreamy_tags] shortcode.
  1. Block editor settings for Dreamy Tags.

    Block editor settings for Dreamy Tags.

  2. Example of a filtered tag cloud output.

    Example of a filtered tag cloud output.

1.0.76

  • Use one generic function name

1.0.74

  • Addressed plugin reviewer feedback.
  • Improved block editor compatibility with upcoming WordPress versions.
  • Updated the block icon from PNG to SVG for better scaling and clarity.
  • Cleaned up asset handling and plugin packaging.
  • Consolidated unique prefixes and standardized enqueue usage.
  • Removed conflicting widget headers to avoid installation issues.

1.0.50

  • Add explicit license disclosure for bundled artwork
  • Minimum occurrences defaults to 2
  • Add block preview image
  • Toggle to include child categories
  • Converted Unicode in files to ASCII
  • Append change log via build script
  • Add minimum tag threshold
  • Show tag size relative to subset of posts matching
  • Tags and filters can be searched by name in block editor settings
  • Functional filtering and exclusion logic
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