Tag Widget limits

garocchi

Hi there,
how are you? I have this new questions... :-)
Is it possible to set a limit to the tags that the tags widget show on the sidebar?
I've set a widget called Brands (as in your site) but as I will have many brands they are too much. Is that possible and is it possible to set them on random?
Regards
Gab

Air

Hello:-)

This should help you http://mekshq.com/limit-number-of-tags-in-wordpress-tag-cloud-widget/

With kind regards.

garocchi

HI.. that's code is not working... But it doesn't matter.. I deleted the widget... :-)
Thanks

Air

Indeed, this code work for classic Tags. For product tags use this code

//Register tag cloud filter callback
add_filter('woocommerce_product_tag_cloud_widget_args', 'tag_widget_limit');

//Limit number of tags inside widget
function tag_widget_limit($args){

    //Check if taxonomy option inside widget is set to tags
    if(isset($args['taxonomy']) && $args['taxonomy'] == 'product_tag'){
        $args['number'] = 2; //Limit number of tags
    }

    return $args;
}

With kind regards.

garocchi

Hi... thanks ... I will check this later... i do have another problem and I'm opening a new post..
:-)

garocchi

Hi my friend,
can I ask you if is it possible to tell to this code to display the tags in random mode? It's displaying me always the same tags..
Thanks million...

Air

Hello:-)

I thought it would be easy, but it is not. Rather you will need some different, or modified widget for this. Sorry.

With kind regards.

garocchi

No problem my friend... I will look around... thanks

garocchi

Hi my friend...
How are you? Listen I've talking with Woothemes about the fuction WC Products Tags and they gave me this function to have them in random way..

add_filter( 'woocommerce_product_tag_cloud_widget_args', 'custom_woocommerce_product_tag_cloud_widget_args' );
function custom_woocommerce_product_tag_cloud_widget_args( $args ) {

$args['order'] = 'RAND';
$args['number'] = '10';

return $args;

}

The problem with this function is that the 10 tags displaied are all the same all the time and I have something like 50 tags to be displaied in random way.
They told me that is not their business to change codes.
So my question is: are you able to change this code in the way that the fuction will look at all the tags and show only 15 of them in the pages?
Obviously I will pay you for this service if you can tell me that you can do that.
Let me know.
Regards
Gabriele

Air

Hello there

I have checked, and wordpress forces tags to display in order of how many times there were used.
To change it, you will have to either create special widget for this or modify wordpress source code.

Mainly file wordpress\wp-includes\category-template.php line ~621 , change

$tags = get_terms( $args['taxonomy'], array_merge( $args, array( 'orderby' => 'count', 'order' => 'DESC' ) ) ); // Always query top tags

to

$tags = get_terms( $args['taxonomy'], array_merge( $args, array( 'orderby' => 'rand', 'order' => 'DESC' ) ) ); // Always query top tags

Writing own widget, that will not use standard wordpress code for tag cloud, should be proper solution, but I won't do this for you, sorry.

However with all that information, someone should easily do that for you if he/she knows WP :-)

With kind regards.

garocchi

Hi .. thanks for your answer...
I saw that line and I changed it to RAND, but I dind't know it would have displayed the most viewed.
I also upload last week another plugin and guess ... it broken many website links and I had to installed again all the website...
I was lucky I had the products bakcup..
Anyway... thanks

Air

garocchi said: I saw that line and I changed it to RAND,

Did it work for you?

garocchi said: I also upload last week another plugin and guess ... it broken many website links and I had to installed again all the website...

What plugin?

With kind regards.

garocchi

No, it didn't work... it took always the same 10 tags and displayed always the same, but in random order...
The plugin was Ultimate Tag Cloud..
It has broken some links in woocommerce and categories and bla bla bla

Air

But do you use Woocommerce widget for your tags, or this "Ultimate Tag cloud" one?
I am sure this change works, as I tested it before posting. I tested it on Woocommerce product tags widget.

With kind regards.

garocchi

I used the wc product tags, but as it cannot do what I was looking for I tried the "Ultimate tag cloud" and I ruined everything... :-):-):-)