Flash based Tag Cloud plugin for Octopress site

Flash Based Tag Cloud Plugin for Octopress Site

by Ashwani Kumar - 2013-01-19 11:13 - posted in Technical | Tagged as Flash,Tagcloud,Tag,animatedcloud,OctopressPlugin | Comments

I recently wanted to use a Animated Flash based Tag Cloud on my Blog site. Then I came across with a plugin from Joseph Chang (octopress-cumulus), but unfortunately it generated only category clouds.

So I updated the plugin to create a flash based animated cloud for tags also.
Note: you will have to use any other plugin to generate the tags first.

Here is the plugin code:

module Jekyll class CategoryCumulusCloud < Liquid::Tag def initialize(tag_name, markup, tokens) . . . super end def render(context) lists = {} max, min = 1, 1 config = context.registers[:site].config if @tag_name == 'tag_cloud' cloud_dir = config['tag_dir'] cloud = context.registers[:site].tags else cloud_dir = config['category_dir'] cloud = context.registers[:site].categories end cloud_dir = config['url'] + config['root'] + cloud_dir + '/' #categories = context.registers[:site].categories cloud.keys.sort_by{ |str| str.downcase }.each do |item| count = cloud[item].count lists[item] = count max = count if count > max end . . . . lists.each do | item, counter | url = cloud_dir + item.gsub(/_|\P{Word}/u, '-').gsub(/-{2,}/u, '-').downcase style = "font-size: #{10 + (40 * Float(counter)/max)}%" tagcloud << "<a href='#{url}' style='#{style}'>#{item}" tagcloud << "</a> " end . . . . end end end Liquid::Template.register_tag('category_cloud', Jekyll::CategoryCumulusCloud) Liquid::Template.register_tag('tag_cloud', Jekyll::CategoryCumulusCloud)