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The New Children's Museum's next major exhibition, "FEAST! The Art of Playing With Your Food," is set to open Oct. 13. Like the museum's previous theme exhibition, "Trash," which opened in October, 2011, it will fill the entire downtown museum with art based on a single theme.
Curated by the museum's Lauren Lockhart, it will comprise interactive work by nearly a dozen artists based on the topics of food, health, agriculture, family heritage, community and the environment.
"Through this new exhibition, we will continue to inspire creativity, imagination and critical thinking in children and families through contemporary art," said Julianne Markow, the museum's executive director. "The museum's education team is working with each artist to ensure that children of all ages are not only able to engage in open-ended play with and on the works of art, but also that they will find myriad ways to learn from the artwork and develop new skills."
The exhibition promises to employ "every available medium from video and sound to painting and sculpture," and uses local, regional and national artists. Some of their artwork is now under development in the museum's "Test Kitchen," which is open to the public through April 13.
Here are the artists contracted (so far) to produce works for "FEAST!":
Project: Enchanted Fruits (Tentative title)
The 11-year-old, Los Angeles-based collaborative comprised of Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III describes its sole purpose as "spreading the positive message of Magic, Luck, and Friendship... FriendsWithYou's mission is to affect world culture by cultivating special moments of spiritual awareness and powerful, joyous interaction." At NCM, that interaction will take place with large, inflated fruits and other foods.
Credits: New York City's High Line, Art Basel Miami, Minnesota's Walker Art Center, Tuen Mun Town Plaza in Hong Kong and Haus der Kulturen der Welt Museum in Berlin.
Ross Karre
Project: Sound Kitchen
A UC San Diego graduate now based in New York City, Karre is a former member of the percussion ensemble red fish blue fish and now perform with ICE (the International Contemporary Ensemble, which is guided by MacArthur fellow Claire Chase and includes UC San Diego's Steven Schick as a frequent guest artist). He is also an accomplished video artist and editor and is now collaborating with composer Roger Reynolds on his new work based on the life of George Washington commissioned by the National Symphony. His installation will create a hybrid kitchen/recording studio.
Credits: BBC Scotland (Glasgow Concert Halls), Miller Theatre in New York, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and the Park Avenue Armory in New York.
Marisol Rendon
Project: Wobbleland
The San Diego-based Rendon, who studied at Claremont Graduate University and is Assistant Professor of Art at Southwestern College, Chula Vista, had a previous, highly successful work at the California Center for the Arts Escondido that was comprised of giant vegetables. For this exhibition, Rendon will create an oversized kitchen sink, filled with large scraps of food. Expect children to climb in.
Credits: Museum of Art of Pereira in Colombia, California Center for Arts in Escondido, CA and Caldas Museum of Art in Colombia, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Market Gallery in Los Angeles, Noel-Baza Fine Art and Track 16 Gallery (Santa Monica).
Phil Ross
Project: Mol_d
A graduate of Stanford University and the San Francisco Art Institute who now teaches at the University of San Francisco, Ross will fashion approximately 1000 building blocks made of mushrooms (using a process he's developed over a decade of experimentation).
Credits: MacDowell Colony Fellow, Artist in Residence at the University of Western Australia, The Exploratorium and The Headlands Center for the Arts; exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art in Russia, Museum of Craft And Folk Art in San Francisco, Newcomb Art Gallery in New Orleans, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and The Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Tattfoo Tan
Projects: 5PM and Nature Matching System
The Nature Matching System is a large-scale mural of 88 pantone colors associated with a fruit or a vegetable (place mats with the grid are available on Tattfoo's website). As for 5PM, the New York-based artist will construct a chicken coop housing five chickens (aka PMs, or poop machines) outside the museum.
Credits: Annual Award for Excellence in Design for a public design commission in the City of New York; solo exhibitions at Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, Peng Gallery in Philadelphia and Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York.
Jason Torchinsky
Project: Food Truckin'
The Los Angeles-based Torchinsky will create a set of "customizable vehicles" that will allow children to assemble, pack and ship food.
Credits: Machine Project, blogger for Jalopnik.
Project: Urban Aqualoop
WORKac is a New York-based architectural firm founded by Dan Wood and Amale Andraos that will build an "interactive installation integrating natural cycles with real food production infrastructure in an innovative form that invites exploration." The structure will contain "a closed-loop food production system; a functional, aquaponic fish and vegetable farm."
Credits: Finalist for a National Design Award and in 2008; identified by Icon Magazine as one of the 25 most-influential new architecture firms in the world; projects include the first Edible Schoolyard in New York City with chef Alice Waters, headquarters and retail complex for Diane Von Furstenberg, the master plan for the Brooklyn Academy of Music Cultural District, museum extension for Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, temporary urban farm installation at MOMA'S PS1 Contemporary Art Center and transformable art interiors at New York City's Children's Museum of the Arts.


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This homemade costume for kids entered our 2011 Halloween Costume Contest, and won a special prize in the Most Creative Costume nomination!
A word from Heather, the 'Red Moth' costume creator:
Another of the daughters decided a few days before Halloween that she wanted to dress up. So in sticking with the "Insect" theme, I made her a Red Moth.
The construction of the costume was very similar to every other costume I made (that had wings) except that there was just a strip of fabric tied around the neck of the moth to make the straps. (I ran out of heavier board materials :( ) If you have questions as to how to make one, see the instruction illustrations for the "Trashy" Butterfly costume I made, (it's here on the site).
To decorate it, I spray painted the body and wings red, and covered the wings with glitter. I sprayed hairspray on top of the glitter (so it didn't all come off all over)

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Latest Heart News
MONDAY, March 18 (HealthDay News) -- The use of a special filter to prevent potentially deadly blood clots from traveling to patients' lungs varies widely among hospitals, a new study finds.
A vena cava filter is placed in the inferior vena cava, the large vein in the abdomen that returns blood from the lower body to the heart. It is one of the treatments for people with blood clots that develop in the veins of the leg or pelvis (deep vein thrombosis).
These blood clots can break free and travel to the lungs, where they can cause severe complications or death. A vena cava filter, which is designed to trap these clots before they reach the lungs, may be the only treatment option for patients who can't be given blood-thinning drugs.
But one expert notes that the evidence around the effectiveness of these devices has never been clear.
"Vena cava filters were once thought to be lifesaving devices in patients [with clots] who could not tolerate the methods of blood thinners," explained Dr. Alisha Oropallo, director of wound care and hyperbarics at North Shore-LIJ Health System, Lake Success, NY.
However, "more recent data has come to light which leads physicians to question the true efficacy of vena cava filters," she said.
In the new study, researchers looked at the use of vena cava filters at 263 hospitals in California between January 2006 and December 2010. The data showed that vena cava filters were used in nearly 15 percent of more than 130,000 hospitalizations for deep vein thrombosis.
However, the frequency of vena cava filter use at the hospital varied widely, ranging from 0 percent to nearly 39 percent of deep vein thrombosis cases. Patient factors associated with the use of vena cava filters included: bleeding at the time of hospital admission; a major operation after admission for deep vein thrombosis; having advanced cancer; and being extremely ill.
Hospital characteristics associated with the use of vena cava filters included having a small number of beds and being in a rural area, according to the study published online March 18 in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
The findings suggest that the use of vena cava filters is largely based on a hospital's culture and practice patterns, according to Dr. Richard White, of the University of California, Davis, and colleagues.
Hospitals may be more or less reluctant to use the filters because the data on their effectiveness remains unclear, the researchers said. "The absence of reliable data indicating a clear benefit [or clear harm] associated with [vena cava filter] use likely contributes to the wide variation in use that we observed," they concluded.
Oropallo agreed. "The need for a proper randomized trial [into vena cava filter use] is necessary," she said. "Until such studies are completed, it will remain difficult for physicians to properly guide their patients to the appropriate treatment for certain circumstances."
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Merlin's weekly podcast with Dan Benjamin. We talk about creativity, independence, and making things you love.
Merlin's weekly podcast with Dan Benjamin. We talk about creativity, independence, and making things you love.
"What's 43 Folders?"
43Folders.com is Merlin Mann's website about finding the time and attention to do your best creative work.
Flash: "Podfading" ravages the landscape of logorrheic bloggers
Merlin Mann | Feb 7 2006
Wired News: Podfading Takes Its Toll
I don't doubt that people give up doing podcasts everyday, but I suspect it's not simply because they're a huge pain to make (which they certainly are, compared to typical text blogging). I think the problem is the expectations podcasters may have created for themselves and for their audience -- being cleft to this 1st Generation notion of podcasting as "regularly-scheduled MP3 Radio Show."
There's nothing wrong with this, of course, and a lot of folks have done yeoman's work churning out (sometimes really long) shows on a (sometimes nauseatingly) regular basis. But it's also daunting and backward to decide first that you're "doing an hour-long podcast" and second that it will be about....uh...what? Yeah, exactly. That's a lot of air to fill each (day | week | month). If you can pull it off with elan, more power to you.
Me? I like the idea that a podcast is simply another way to post. Nothing more. Same way that Flickr and del.icio.us -- to name just a couple -- let me share something in a way that isn't a traditional blog post, recording audio lets me (try to) make a certain point in my own way and with tone (and, one hopes, personality) that are a contrast with typically dry blog writing. But maybe that's just me.
I understand it's useful to look back toward what new technologies remind us of, but you won't tease out the more novel uses of something until you let it just be what it is, allowing it to evolve without all the herding and expectations. In the fifties, the future always looked like TVs, and in the sixties it all looked like rocket ships. And so, today, podcasts look like relatively easy-to-produce (usually long-ass) radio shows, and that's cool, I suppose.
But if we are to be stuck with this radio mindset for now, I do wish more of the many talented podcasters out there would aspire toward making a series of brilliant poppy '45s -- rather than manufacturing these hour. long. news. casts. Seriously. Just do 3 fun minutes every couple weeks, and then stop for a while. I want "Love Me Do," not "The Ring Cycle."
Raise your bar for quality and way lower your bar for frequency, and I promise you the whole thing will be much more fun for everyone.
You've definitely got this whole...
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You've definitely got this whole thing figured out, Merlin. I love how your podcast is brief and to the point, while seemingly every other podcast out there is padded with all kinds of inane blather. Hopefully other podcasters are taking notice.
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I watched some of Lauren Bacall's movies on cable TV when I was growing up, including "To Have and To Have Not" (1944), alongside her husband Humphrey Bogart; "The Big Sleep" (1948); "Key Largo" (1949); and "How to Marry a Millionaire" (1953), alongside Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe. She was very talented, very beautiful and very sweet. She was also one of my favorite movie actresses.
She is one of the greatest Hollywood movie actresses of all time. Lauren Bacall, RIP.
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This is an excerpt from the Proceedings of the 12th Prefectural Oversight Committee Meeting for Fukushima Health Management Survey, unofficially translated by the Department of International Cooperation, Radiation Medical Science Center of Fukushima Medical University. It is provided for information purposes only, and reliance should be placed on the original Japanese version of the proceedings.
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- Basic Survey (Appendix: Estimated external radiation dose)
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The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1931
Description: Weekly newspaper from Hereford, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 31, 1931
Creator: Kessie, R. E.
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A Better Tag Cloud
I was pretty annoyed with the default tag cloud widget. It does a lot of things wrong, like inconsistent HTML markup and hardcoded font sizes. So I wanted to write my own. Digging through the code I found out that the wordpress
wp_tag_cloud() function is pretty powerful. In fact, it could do almost everyhing I want. So I abandoned my plan to rewrite everything from scratch and added a nice admin interface to my tag cloud widget.
This plugin makes the options for wp_tag_cloud() available to a tag cloud widget and a shortcode. This means that you can easily choose things like font sizes, HTML markup and ordering. See the wp_tag_cloud page for what the settings can do.
Additionally, it is possible to sort tags by count and alphabetically at the same time. It is also possible to add a counter to the tags, so that your visitors can see how many posts are associated with each tag. The plugin also adds a sensible CSS class to every tag.
Here's a demo of the new shortcode:
The easiest way to use this plugin is to drag the widget into one of your sidebars.
There is as well the shortcode [nktagcloud]. Examples:
- [nktagcloud] This displays the tag cloud as configured on the options page.
- [nktagcloud single=yes] This does the same but shows only the tags of the current post.
- [nktagcloud post_id=1234] Displays the tags of the post identified by post_id.
- [nktagcloud separator="" categories=no] Remove separator and categories.
Using the tag cloud in your theme
You can call the function
nktagcloud_shortcode() from your theme to get the same output as from the shortcode. Example:
if ( function_exists( 'nktagcloud_shortcode' ) ) {
echo nktagcloud_shortcode( null );
There's also the
nk_wp_tag_cloud() function. You can use it to generate a tag cloud with a different configuration than the plugin's one. It accepts the same parameters as wp_tag_cloud(). Example:
if ( function_exists( 'nk_wp_tag_cloud' ) ) {
echo nk_wp_tag_cloud( 'single=yes&separator= - &categories=no' );
Additonal parameters (all strings):
- single: Only tags of the current post ('Yes', 'No')
- categories: Inlude categories in the cloud ('Yes', 'No')
- replace: Convert blanks to non-breaking spaces ('Yes', 'No')
- post_id: Display only tags of the specified post (post ID)
- mincount: Show only tags that have been used at least so many times
- separator: Tag separator
- inject_count: Add a counter to the tag ('Yes', 'No')
- inject_count_outside: Add the counter outside of the tag hyperlink ('Yes', 'No')
- nofollow: Add the noffow attribute to the tags in the cloud ('Yes', 'No')
Downloads are at the plugin's WordPress.org page.
WordPress plugin demos are disabled as I don't use WordPress on this site any more.
359 comments
I like the options on the widget, but when I try to change the number of tags shown in the widget options, it won't change. When I change it and click the "Update Settings" button or the "Change" button, neither one will work, and it resets itself to 0. I managed to get the number of tags I want showing by editing the number in the php code, but I thought you might like to know it's not working for me in the widget options.
Oh, sorry, also, that was happening with version 0.1.0 yesterday and still today when I upgraded to 0.2.0 and I'm using WordPress 2.6.3
If that helps. :)
That is some snappy updating! Working great for us now. Thanks for the great plugin.
I like it, it's a perfect widget.
Just one question, is there a paid version to remove the credit link?
Hi, thanks for the great plugin! Just one question .. is there a way to have 2 widgets. I want to display it on two different sidebars.
Thanks and keep up the good work!
Is it possible to have the widget sort the most popular tags in alphabetical order? Thanks!
Hi gestroud, I think there's a flaw in your logic: you either sort a list alphabetically or by popularity. You could give one criterion precedence over the other, but that doesn't make a lot of sense imo.
Btw, you didn't define popularity, what do you mean by that word?
Maybe you could write down an example sorting to make it clear what you mean.
I installed the tag cloud and it works grat, but I don't think any of my custom changes made a difference. what am i missing. also, can the color be changed.
Hey Nicolas, I would like to know if in the future a feature to add post count next to the tags will be implemented. I'm currently using Configurable Tag Cloud plugin for WordPress. Furthermore, about gestrouds comment concerning sorting most popular tags in alphabetical order. I have also wanted this feature.
e.g. If you have 4 tags and they are labeled as: student, classes, books, courses. Let say you have 10 posts that contain the student tag and the remaining 3 tags both have an equal number of 7 posts.
The order for most popular would be: student, classes, books and courses.
The order for most popular sorted alphabetically would be: student, books, classes and courses.
My current tags plugin sorts by most popular, but for tags with the same post count the tags are listed from what I can tell to be randomly.
In the future, do you think you can implement such features perhaps?
you have made a new update and now the Tag Cluod ist absolutly wrong ro see in the IE.
The Tags are all in one line around the complett Website .....
But only in the IE...when i take the FF is all okay...whats up there?
Hey Nicolas, I just checked back for updates and installed the latest version of your better tag cloud widget. I have found the following:
On my blog, I have you widget set to "list" format, however, the tags are still displayed as a "flat" format. I have cleared browsers cache etc, but still the same results.
Furthermore, may I suggest the font size be entered in manually in a box rather than selected from a list? This would allow for manual font sizes which would include decimal point fonts.
My tags are still displaying as a "flat" format even though I have "list" selected as the format in the widget settings.
I disabled the plug-in but the credit link is still on all of my pages. Can you tell me how to uninstall the link?
very useful, thanks.
None of the changes I make through the widget are affecting the tag cloud on my page. I have tried refreshing and clearing the cache.
Thanks for this wonderful Plugin buddy...
Hi nicolas,
Do you know if it's possible to have tags that are one-word hyperlinks to my other site's web pages.
Hi -- Thanks for the widget. I have a question: Do you know why on our site the tags are underlined? I'd like it to look like yours (without them). Thanks.
The settings for "Number of tags to show" (currently set to 20)and "Force tags with multiple words on one line?" (currently set to Yes) seem to be ignored.
Error at widget %BEG_OF_TITLE% Tags %END_OF_TITLE%
How to fix it... my blog gone
can you add the "exclude" parameter to the widjet form?
I am using your plug-in with thesis theme. I want to create a list instead of a linear display, but the 'list' format doesn't seem to be working. What am I missing. Here is the test page. www. eduweave .org/blog
I had your template on another blog too http://JohnZajaros. com and everything was fine until I added Google analytics to the footer.php in the theme editor. I have it on the http://TheQuestRevealed. com and all is well. But when I added Google Analytics to the footer.php right above the like it said to, the johnzajaros.com theme added a second "search this blog" box on the header for some reason. TheQuestRevealed.com is fine. I have deleted the theme at johnzajaros.com and reloaded it but the search box comes back at the top, that second "Search on this blog" box. I can't get rid of it. I went into the header code and think I see where the code is duplicated but I am not a code person, so I left it alone. But I really like your theme and would like to use it on all of my blogs. But I need to fix this problem first. Any ideas? I hope I was clear enough.
John Zajaros
It took me forever to find this plugin, but it was worth the wait! Thanks so much!
I was just wondering how to make one little change. I want the post count to be after the tag link. My category links are formatted that way, and it's driving me crazy to have them different from the tags!
I've tried upgrading to the new version, but when I click the 'Automatically Install' button, the file will not unzip properly. I'm using WP version 2.8.4...but, my hosting company did not have PhP 5.0 on their server at the time of my initial install. I now have it; but, I'm wondering if the unzip functionality is now defunct.
Any ideas?
i was thinking of an option for your tag cloud:
adding existing categories to tag list... (just a simple checkbox)
it exist in many other tag plugin and i thind it usefull.
maybe it depends on site hierarchy/organisation but it helps for mine.
thanx in advance and congrats for your good job
I'll have to look into this. No idea how much work it is.
In the meantime you should check your WordPress settings, it looks like you configured 192.168.25.254 as your home URL, which basically breaks your blog for everybody not on your local network. See this page.
I really like your format best and the options you've included in your plugin. yugz already asked, but could you add support for categories? I'd also like to be able to use multiple instances of the widget -- one for categories and one for tags. THANK YOU!
This one does categories if the source will help you :
Thank You for today's upgrade! I left a topic in Wordpress - http://wordpress.org/support/topic/319718 . I'm having problems excluding a category and tag with the same name, slug, and term ID.
I just upgraded the wordpress plugin 0.8.1.2. it shows as 0.8.1 and the widget title is not displayed. Any ideas? It worked with the previous version.
Thanks for the report! A fixed version has been released.
Thanks for your swift reply. Can't seem to find the new version though. I only see 0.8.1.2, that is the one giving my this issue. I upgraded from the following source: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/nktagcloud.0.8.1.2.zip Any clues?
Thank you Nicolas. Installed it and everything is just fine again!
Oh noes!
I installed the newer version and it doesn't display anything :O
OK found the issue - previously the plugin was automatically displaying the results, now it returns them - neded to specify "echo nk_wp_tag_cloud("
All fixed
Hi, thank you for that wonderful widget. I very much like the possibility to add categories to the cloud. The only thing to mention is that the exclude list should also apply to category names and not just tags. Don't you agree ... ?
Version 0.8.4.1 appears to have introduced another error - it now doesn't work!!
Did an auto upgrade and it failed at line 19 of nktagcloud.php....
(re: my previous post)
Is the plugin WP 2.8.5 compatible?
Shall I try another upgrade of the plugin (I've just restored an old version 0.4.0)
Hello Nicolas,
thank you for the plugin. Ability to customize tag cloud is a nice feature.
I was wondering if there's a possibility to show only those tags which have been used more than X times, for example, if I have lots of tags which are used only once (or twice), I would like to not show them in the cloud.
I was looking into code, but couldn't figure out if it's easily hackable or not.
Thank you,
Hi Kaspars, that would be easy to add, I've added it to my todo. In the meantime you can simply limit the total number of tags. I think I can get that feature into the next release.
Hi Kaspars, today's 0.8.5 release includes this feature and other improvements.
I just launched a new site ohaskin.com and installed your tag cloud for the first time. I am now going back and adding tags to all of my PAGES (posts were already done) but I am not seeing any change in the tag cloud. Does it only use tags from posts and not pages? Is there a way for it to include pages? Thanks!
I am complete newbie to Wordpress/themes/plug ins etc.
I am just setting up my site and cannot work out how I can configure your plug in. Can you help and point me to where I can find the configuration option. I am running a theme and have been looking in both that dashboard, the main WP dashboard and the Widgets section.
Thanks in advance for your help and your plug in.
I'm just passing by to thank you for this pluggin. I'm currently using it on my blog www.logisticadescomplicada .com and it helped me fixing an issue I had before!
I really like this plugin. I just updated to the latest version of this plug-in, but it is not working properly (and I haven't touched the code). It is properly displaying the categories used on the posts, but the link is not working (shows http://sitename.com/?tag= for every category). Is this something you've encountered before?
I can't get the css of this to show up on the page!
Hey there I've been having a problem with the plug-in. I created my Wordpress Theme using Artisteer and installed Wordpress on my web host.
I've installed the Better Tag plug-in from: REMOVED and installed it successfully. I activated the plug-in and am able to access the configuration settings but don't know how to make the tags display in different sizes??
Is there a problem with my theme?
Here is a link to my website: REMOVED
Your help would be much appreciated :-)
Works great... easy to use!!! Thanks for this plugin!
Nice plugin, but one small issue (the same one Eric has).
Having looked into your code I have fixed the issue (category links will not be built from the function get_tag_link):
On line 143 in inc/page.php change
$link = get_tag_link( $tag->term_id );
if ( isset($tag->cat_ID) )
$link = get_category_link( $tag->term_id );
$link = get_tag_link( $tag->term_id );
Hi Nicolas,
Nice plugins you have written.
Would it be possible to add a function to include/exclude categories? That would be really nice!
PS: There are a number of strings that are not yet internationalized. To wit http://easycaptures.com/fs/uploaded/422/1366134344.png
These strings are internationalized. Where did you get the translation from? It looks like the translator didn't use the pot file that comes with the plugin.
If anybody localizes the plugin I'd like to include their work in the official release. Users shouldn't have to download separate translation files.
Hello Nicolas,
I tried your plugin for one of my site. I have configured it properly but the tags are not visible in the Better Tag Cloud section on the site.Also the when I give one tag in the Included Tags section of configuration page it comes on the site but not all the tags I used in my posts.
Please suggest what m doing wrong.
Fantastic! I was really unhappy with the default Tag Cloud where I had no control over the font size. Very ugly. Installed yours and a quick glance at the options and I have presentable tags. Haven't had time to play with all of your features, but sure glad you did this! Keep up the good work. Thanks!!!
Tu dois utiliser windos toi non?
you should not be a mac user Right?
Thanks for the plug-in, Nicolas. I'd love to get mine looking as good as your cloud at the top of this page. But as a coding numbskull, I can't see how to do it. Any chance of some simple instructions?
PS… Can you tell me how I get rid of the title tags if I don't want a title?
nice plugin. used in my blog. tks
good plugin. but i like the flash one better.
Hey, I'm having trouble with your plugin. I uninstalled it, but for some reason a text link to your homepage appears on my main page.
How do I get rid of it?
I translated Better Tag Cloud into French.
The translation is available here
and here
Hey Nicolas great plugin by the way!
I just have one problem.
I installed the plug-in to one of my sites but the tag cloud looks quite squashed (vertically). Is there some coding/configuration that I need to do to format the tag cloud like the one above and below?
Thanks in advance
Great plugin. I would like to know how to make my tags look in different colors like your demo above.
Thank you
I will add colored tags in the next release, stay tuned!
I have added an option to automatically color the tags. It's very basic and may or may not work depending on your theme's CSS styles. I'm uploading the 0.8.12 release right now.
If you don't like the colors you can have a look at css/page.css in the plugin's directory and create your own CSS styles.
I'd love to add a generator where users can pick colors but I'm just too busy atm.
Hey and thanks for a great plugin. I'm using it on several blogs, for example http://www.parafovea.com.
I was going to ask about excluding categories by id number but I see that there are already several requests for this. So one more vote for that feature!
With the latest update the tag cloud ALWAYS displays in list format regardless of the admin panel setting...Is this just me or is anyone else having an issue?
You are right, I just uploaded a fix that should resolve this issue. Thanks for the report!
Thanks for the fix. All is good!
The problem is not fixed at all. I just uploaded the latest 8.12.2 while the same issue like STeve described still exist....
I see no admin panel settings like the previous version
the files : css/page.css and css/admin.css shows "not activated", others are activated
Hi Michael, I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean.
page.css file is missing in CSS folder...???
I would like to see a log file on your site that lists the changes in each release that I can review before downloading the new release. You already have this info in the readme.txt file AFTER I download. How about making this available BEFORE I download? Thanks.
hi nocolas,
great plugin. but one problem. changing font size and units doesn't change the tag cloud display on the page. eg: changed to 8/20 px. still: 8/22 pt visible on the blog. even tried hardcoding it in your plugin. no effect...help!
Love the plugin, but would it be possible to change it so that 'span class="nktagcloud_counter"' and 'span class="nktagcloud-separator"' tags don't show up in thre source code if you don't use counters/separators?
What am I doing wrong? I install the plugin, configure it, drag it to my sidebar and it still looks plain. What am I missing?
Hi Nicolas,
Just wanted to say thank you for this plug in. It was so easy to install and use right off the bat and it's much prettier than the default one :)
Nice plugin.
I don't use widgets. This plug-in has a shortcode for an insert in sidebar?
Hi Nicolas,
Better Tag Cloud - a great plugin, thanks a lot!
I have a bilingual website with English & Bulgarian versions.
I run on 2.9.1 and use your latest version of your plugin (updated yesterday)
It's all fine in the English version but in the Bulgarian, I cannot make the tags work. They are there but once you click on them it's 404 Not found.
Could you please have a look and tell me what's wrong: http://sharemykitchen.com/bg/
I desparately need the tags to be working on both languages.
Thanks in advance.
Hi Nicolas, thanks for the reply.
The plugin is the Better Tag Cloud and the theme is Atahualpa 3.4.1 if that's what you ask. I hope this is helpful.
Ok, I've got you now..
It's WPML Multilingual CMS
How can I use automatic colors for the tag cloud in the wp_tag_cloud() function?
Hi Nicolas, I just want to add some more info to my problem, in case this might be of help to you.
I have noticed that search engines do not index my Bulgarian posts (my default language is English)but only the pages in Bulgarian - it's kind of weird.
So it's like my tags and posts in Bulgarian are not working, and I can't see the realation between the two.
The problem still stays the same, none to do with cascading css. The inline styles coming out of better tag cloud are not as set in the plugin admin. Search for albert kreuz blog. in the source of better tag cloud you will see e.g. font-size: 22pt;. But in the admin the setup is 6 to 14 px. No changes are being used... mail me for access to the blog if you'd like to see it yourself!
I don't know what to say. This code works perfectly for me. Please use the contact form to send me a login to that blog and I'll have a look.
One day I'll add an option to remove the hardcoded fontsizes, but it's a low priority as it's how WordPress does the tag cloud by default anyway and it can be overridden with an !important rule.
can i make the tag list in your plug in like this
My last attempt to comment didn't seem to work, so I am trying again.
Great plugin, but I for me the "Show only tags that have been used at least so many times" option doesn't seem to work. I have it set to 3 and tags that appear only once are in the tag cloud. My blog is here.
I tried ur plug in on my site (http://www.pathofysiologie.nl/) but it didnt work, cuz I dont have posts, all my content is in pages. is it possible to make a change in the code so the tag cloud works for page contents too?
Update works! Thanks for the quick response.
Is it possible to justifie the tags in the Tag-Cloud like your comment-texts?
so that there is no free space on the right side?
hopefully you understand what i mean :)
I would like to ask.
How can i embed the cloud just like you did it on this page.
Thanks and regards
nice widget... Thanks for it..
need the php code for direct theme add.
Thanks for this nice widget. Very helpful.
This really is an excellent plugin and I now have it installed on two websites. It is simple to set up and does exactly what I need it to with no problems.
What really helps is that you respond to everyone's questions - it's what ultimately made me decide to use your plugin and not someone else's. Thanks.
First: thank you for the plug-in!
Second: I'd love to give props where due, but seems to be competing with the them copyright at the bottom of the page - any thoughts?
Third: EXCUSE the novice question (I am new to WP and all its features), but the only tags present in the cloud are from the categories. Do I simply just not have enough entries at this point to have more populating the tag cloud?
There is something I don´t understand. The plug-in is installed and activated. But where do the tag-choices appear?
Thanks for this plug-in!
I have installed it on my site blog and want to display a "flat" version of the tag cloud instead of the list version. However, when showing flat version, the tags start on the same row as the title of the widget. Is there a way to fix this?
Other than this small display issue, this is a great plug-in.
Hi. This is an excellent plugin! I have a question though. The theme that is being used for this blog doesn't use widgets to include info into the sidebar, it is an R-sidebar.php file. Will your plugin work with this theme? If so how do I make it work? Thanks!!
Great Plugin!
Unfortunately it seems to have a bug: When I try the sort option "both" I'll receive instead of the widget the following error message:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare compare_both() (previously declared in /HIDDEN/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/nktagcloud/inc/page.php:304) in /HIDDEN/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/nktagcloud/inc/page.php on line 304
I just activated your plugin. It's way better than the default tag widget. Thanks for this contribution.
First off, thanks for the great widget!
I'm using it with the Arthemia theme and everything works except the random font size, it stays with the standard font designated by the theme. I've browsed through the css and didn't see where to edit it. Have you had any experience with this theme or would you be able to assist?
Thanks kindly,
Hi Nicolas,
Thanks for the great plug-in!
I need to add some left padding to the tag list. I looked in Firebug but don't see a div with a class or ID surrounding the list. I can't apply my style to better-tag-cloud or or widget-nktagcloud because that would mess up the widget title styling. Is there anyway that I can wrap the tag list in a div with an ID or class so I can style it?
Thanks for a good work! I suppose, I've detected one small bug - "inject_count" parameter doesn't work, when calling it from nk_wp_tag_cloud() callback. Looks like it was accidentally forgotten during one of the last upgrades.
Hey Nicolas and thank you for the plugin.
I want my tags to appear neax to each other, on the same line, and not that every tag occupy a complete line (unless it is mutliple words of course)
I set it to Flat, and to List, but it is the same. How can I make them appear one next to each other, and not every single one, on every single line?
Okay, thank you. after a long time of testing, I figured that I can find:
.sidebar1 ul li a:link, .sidebar1 ul li a:visited {
and change the display property to:
You could simply tell me that, and I am done :)
But its okay now, and thank you again.
I know there is a lot of options... But I need at least the title of the widget to be configurable right on the widget config screen, to localization of that text (via WPML).
Is it possible to have the better tag cloud appear in my sidebar and my footer widget at the same time?
Thanks and looking to hear from you.
Nice work Nicolas! I now have a better tag cloud for a 10 minute investment of time (and a small PayPal gratuity). 2 minutes to download and setup and the rest to find the answers to my questions. Now all I need to do is figure out how to get the underlines to go away (selecting none for decorations did not do it). Thanks very much!
Hi Nicholas, can you help me with asmall modification?
I have images associated with many of my tags and I want to show them in a cloud, or list instead of the tag words.
at the moment a tag is shown like
href="http://example.com/tag/mytag" and I would need to change this to href="http://example.com/wp-content/tagdir/mytag.gif"
Is that possible and where would I make that change?
Hi Nicolas,
I'm Domicio Neto and I'm from Brazil.
I have one question for you.
In my site, I have the plugin but I don't want to display Tag and yes only Category.
How do it? I don't have idea.
Thank you so much and congratulations for plugin.
Hi Nicholas,
I installed your tag cloud plugin but it's not showing up. I feel I'm missing a basic step in the installation. Although I risk looking like an idiot, I have to ask how to get this working...do I have to change the code on one of the Wordpress pages?
Hi Phil, you shouldn't have to change anything. There is a widget (if your theme is widget-ready) and the shortcode, as described in the readme.txt. Good luck!
Hi. Yuu have to go the Appearance > Widgets in your admin interface and move the Better Tag Cloud widget into your sidebar. Then you will see it on your blog.
Thanks! I'm testing this, and it seems to be working well.
Thanks for the plugin. I works like a treat.
Assuming I don't want to put the widget into the sidebar, what is the code I can use in the sidebar.php file.
is it. I tried using - , but doesn't work.
Any clue?
Thanks for your help.
I tried your plug-in, however, it doesn't gel with my theme. After deactivating it, I noticed that the plug-in jacked the built-in tags link that appears under each post.
The tags themselves are still present, but the link to the Tags page is broken.
Great plugin! We're using it on selected blogs at the PSOUG.org site (http://psoug.org/blogs/).
I would so love to use this plugin - it looks so cool - but now that I've installed it on wordpress and activated it I don't know what to do next. Nothing seems to be happening at all and I don't know what "Add the widget in your dashboard's Design section and configure it as you like" means exactly. My dashboard doesn't nave a section named design.
great plugin, but I think I prefer like if min color in #aaaaaa and max color in #000000 ?
Are u know my purpose?
and what Tag separator should I fill if I want to give white space?
Please answer.. thanks..
Hi Nicolas
I wanted to explore your plugin when calling from php code but I does nothing. My code is like if ( function_exists( 'nk_wp_tag_cloud' ) ) {
echo nk_wp_tag_cloud( 'single=yes&separator= - &categories=no' );
echo 'exists';}
{echo 'doesnt';
} I can see the 'exists' but nothing else. If I use the standard wp_tag_cloud function it displays the tag cloug. Any idea?
thank you
single=yes only shows tags of the current post, so no tags on pages, the blog page etc.
Hi Nicolas
cool. That solved my issue.
Can I make your nk_wp_tag_cloud function to use all the settings from admin panel?
Thank you
I meant if I can set up all settings in admin area of wp and then just call nk_wp_tag_cloud and it would use these values. So I would have to read any docs at all :-)
You can use nktagcloud_the_cloud() for that.
I used echo nktagcloud_the_cloud(); but I recieved Warning: Missing argument 1 for nktagcloud_the_cloud(), called in ...
can I fix that? Thank you. R
Right, sorry, nktagcloud_the_cloud is the wrong function. Please see below for the new documentation. I'll make a plugin update if this helps you.
I want to use two tag clouds. One that will exclude a single (Quote) tag group and another that will only include the Quote tag group. Looking at the code directly according the book it shouldn't take much. Biggest problem is finding where the tag_cloud command is to edit it.
Ideas appreciated. I've just started working with WordPress so I wouldn't be surprised if the answer was in front of my face...
I had to look at the code again and I've updated the plugin's readme to contain this text:
= Using the tag cloud in your theme =
You can call the function `nktagcloud_shortcode()` from your theme to get the same output as from the shortcode.
There's also the `nk_wp_tag_cloud()` function. You can use it to generate a tag cloud with a different configuration than the plugin's one. It accepts the same parameters as http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_tag_cloud. Example:
if ( function_exists( 'nk_wp_tag_cloud' ) ) {
echo nk_wp_tag_cloud( 'single=yes&separator= - &categories=no' );
Additonal parameters (all strings):
* single: Only tags of the current post ('Yes', 'No')
* categories: Inlude categories in the cloud ('Yes', 'No')
* replace: Convert blanks to non-breaking spaces ('Yes', 'No')
* post_id: Display only tags of the specified post (post ID)
* mincount: Show only tags that have been used at least so many times
* separator: Tag separator
* inject_count: Add a counter to the tag ('Yes', 'No')
* inject_count_outside: Add the counter outside of the tag hyperlink ('Yes', 'No')
what Tag separator should I fill if I want to give white space?
Hi Nicolas,
Just wanted to thank you for the great plugin, for the amazing amount of work that you do with WordPress that many of us benefit from, and to offer a small suggestion.
I couldn't help but notice that rather silly forum thread on WordPress.org re: 'Inserting promotional links into the page'.
Here is my suggestion - Why don't you put the link in the actual plugin widget? Something tastefully discrete yet present. I would have left the links in if they were not placed in the footer (and I appreciate you providing the option to easily remove them). :-)
Why did I remove the links from the footers? Well I'm using a WPMU Installation with a bazillion different themes. Footer content formatting seems to be a rather neglected area amongst theme-builders...not that I'm complaining...it's just that that often the themes are great but the footer content is a mess and I have to spend time modifying each theme. By placing your promo links in the footer, you are pretty much at the mercy of themes as to how it presents your links...and often where... :-)
Anyway, thanks again.
Stephen G
Hey Stephen, I like your suggestion and will implement it. Thanks!
Btw, I will remove the links for the default install in a future release. Wordpress.org has changed their rules for plugins. Once it was enough to be GPL2, but now there's rule X, unpublished rule Y etc...
I may have to think about which features can't be used without enabling the link. Something I wanted to avoid. I wanted to give users total control, but apparently that's not good enough. :-?
Is there a way to add "nofollow" to the cloud?
Hi, I installed the plug-in and note one small error. When you add a "separator" you are putting the separator after the last word, e.g.:
tag1, tag2, last_tag,
Can you not insert the separator after the final tag in your next update, please!
Please, can you tell me how to put php "A Better Tag Cloud" inside my archive template?
I was trying to put this:
but without success.
Great a widget. Very thanks.
I like the plugin a lot. It has the possibillities I missed in the original. Still, I had to tweak a little bit.
In inc/page.php, I've modified $tagsize_int to be round($tagsize), and added a new var $tagsize_round as round($tagsize,1) to be used in style font-size. This makes colorization a little better, and the font-sizes doesn't end up with five decimals.
By the way, what scheme did you use for the color stepping in page.css? I'd like to widen the size range, but want to continue the color pattern.
Also, colorization only works successfully when using "pt"-sizing. Is there by any chance an easy fix you could come up with to name the css class numbering differently from the size?
i'd like to know if it's possible to center all the tags ? I did it for the sidebar but taht affect all the widget, i'd like that only the tags f my cloud would be in the center of the sidebar.
Thanx a lot
I cannot see the array option in the dropdown. Only list and flat. Do I need to change it in the editor?
Thanks - great plugin.
Hi Brandon, I'm not sure what you mean?
You are not the first!
I want to know if I can make the tags show up in different sizes (in the "array" format, right?). Just wondering how to do that.
Thanks for the plugin, Nicolas.
I don't know if anyone's pointed this out, but on the changelog page, a lot of the dates are 2009-mm-dd when they should be 2010.
So even though you updated the plugin last month, people that look at the changelog may think that it hasn't been updated in a year!
newest version shreddered my design, any idea why this is so?
I am using your Better Tag Cloud plugin. But there is one thing that i really miss: How can i justify the tag cloud?
The default text-style is "right" and i dont know how to change that...
Thanks for the plugin anyway!! :)
Thanks for this great plugin!!! I won't miss it! I have a question: since the latest update I have the new and the old widget and the old setting (configuration) page too. That is confusing... why are there 2 different setting pages? I liked the config page of the old widget more than the new drop down config of the new widget. It gives me a better overview.
Yeah, I know this isn't perfect. I'm not sure yet how I will handle this in the future. Maybe the very first widget instance could be on the settings page, but that could be rather confusing. I'll have to test a few things when I have the time. Thanks for the feedback.
perfectly cool...install it right way.
I like it, itâ
Tolles Widget, Spende kommt vielen Dank für die gute Arbeit.
Great widget i will donate. Thanks for the work you did.
Hi Nicholas. This plugin looks nice. Reading through the comments, it looks like color was added to this some time ago. But I don't see any color controls on the widget's panel, and my output is all one color.
Also, I'm unable to get the Exclude category ID to work. But Include category works as expected. Thank you!
Hi nicolas, sounds like a great plugin, the idea is certainly great, but I can't get the widget in the sidebar. When I click on it in the widget overview to place it onto the sidebar it doens't move, all it does is select the text. Also it messes with the font of the widget overview. Kind of hard to explain what's happening, but maybe you've seen this before and know what I can do to get it working.
Hi Nicolas, I'm using BTC on my blog's About page, but the tag pages generated don't seem to serve up any content. Can you suggest what could be wrong? Thanks.
Hi Nicolas, thank you for the plug-in. Just having difficulties creating a category only tagcloud. When I list 'category' under the taxonomy field and add categories in the other field it seems to give both the category AND the post tags. Probably something very simple, but am still trying to have only the categories showing. Appreciate any help, thank you.
Hi Nicolas,
Thanks for this plugin, I am amazed that you are still providing support for this after almost 2 years!
I've been trying to exclude one tag from my tag cloud, using the exclude tag option you included in the admin page. However it is not working. Can I edit something manually to get it to work? Which file should I be looking at?
Hi Nicolas. Love the plugin, and thanks for your previous reply (above). I'm wondering -- is there a convenient way to get a clean listing of all tags/categories along with their ID numbers, so that you don't have to hover over each edit link one at a time?
Hello Nicolas
Just downloaded this great plugin to use on my resumé/CV page. I am using it in conjunction with simple tags, which lets me add tags to pages.
That way I am able to markup my skills so they count as tags on that page and create a tagcloud listing my skills.
In order to do this I am using the shortcode [nktagcloud single=yes], which correctly displays the tags from the page - BUT the tag "CSS" is bigger than the other tags because in one of my blog posts I have also used this tag.
So my problem is: using [nktagcloud single=yes] correctly displays only the tags from the current page/post - but if the tag from the page is used somewhere else on the site, it will count as well. What can I do to fix this?
Thanks again for a great plugin.
Hi Esben, you should be able to override the tag size with your own CSS. Something like .widget_nktagcloud a { font-size: 12px } (not tested)
Just one more question: Is it possible to disable the links for the tags in the cloud on this particular page, without it affecting tag clouds on other pages?
Thanks for the nice plugin! I have the options set to show the number of posts using each tag -- also option set to show each tag that has at least one post. However, the tags which have just one post aren't showing in the list of tags. Might you have a suggestion for me to get it working? Thanks.
Edit: Please disregard my last comment. I figured out how to do it by setting the number to 0 instead of 1 -- as far as how many times the tag must be used before the tag is shown. Thanks.
Brilliant plug-in, thankyou so much for this. I was beginning to tear my hair out until I found this, now I will be able to use your plug-in to show tags for a recipe archive! ;)
nice one... but using too many tags in a tag cloud may not good for site, said by matts cutt
For those (like me) using tags containing accents, here is how to correctly sort. In PAGE.PHP replace line 90 with the following line :
uasort( $tags, create_function('$a, $b', 'return strnatcasecmp(replace_accents($a->name), replace_accents($b->name));') );
Finally, add inside PAGE.PHP :
function replace_accents($str) {
$str = htmlentities($str, ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8");
$str = preg_replace('/&([a-zA-Z])(uml|acute|grave|circ|tilde);/', '$1', $str);
return html_entity_decode($str);
Voilà !
Interesting. The code my plugin uses for sorting is the same the wp core uses. Did you check if the built-in tag cloud sorts your tags properly? If not I think I'll have to do some testing myself and maybe report a bug against wp core.
I would have assumed that mysql can sort correctly if it has the correct locale definitions.
The official WP widget also fails to sort accents. So, yes, it is a bug in the core functions, but I didn't bother to report it, because foreign language support never seems a priority in WP. Hehehe !
Anyway, to summarize : By default, the tag 'époque' will get sorted AFTER the tag 'Zimbabwe', while 'epoque' (without accent) will get sorted BEFORE 'Zimbabwe'. The code I posted tries to solve this problem.
Hi Nicolas, Thanks for the plug-in. Not sure if this is on topic but when I click a tag the resulting post will not display images. How do I have images displayed in the tag/post result?
is there any way to limit tag's length for "better tag cloud"?
if I place tag cloud in index.php and have tag with too many characters for one line/string, plugin does not extend/wrap it to the second line, but pushes tag behind my sidebar.
maybe someone knows how to limit tags length for default wordpress posts too?
thank you.
Is there a possibility to have images in the place of text for tags?
Hi Nicolas
first of all, thanks for your time and support.
We have added the multilingual support to our website (MLWP), but we are experiencing the following error when we switch from the native language to the other.HP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in .\wp-content\plugins\nktagcloud\inc\page.php on line 312 PHP Warning: min() [function.min]: Array must contain atleast one element in .\wp-content\plugins\nktagcloud\inc\page.php on line 339 PHP Warning: max() [function.max]: Array must contain atleast one element in .\wp-content\plugins\nktagcloud\inc\page.php on line 340 PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in .\wp-content\plugins\nktagcloud\inc\page.php on line 363 PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in .\wp-content\plugins\nktagcloud\inc\page.php on line 371
Any advice would be extremely appreciated.
Would be really great to have option to exclude and include also the IDs of the categories and not only the ids of the tags + also option to enable/disable the tags the same way you can enagle or dissable the categories, i saw few suggestions for the same above, any channe to implement those? cheers Roman :))
Hello Mr Nicholas
Thanks for this great plugin.
I am having little problem here.
Everything is perfect except the underlines.. how do i remove them? i tried css codes above but didnt work..
Hi - I'm having trouble with the spacing for the cloud - the tags are running all over each other. See http://www.lovelornpoets.com. How do I fix this? Thanks.
Hi Nicolas, great plug-in!
Is there a way to get one (or some) particular post(s) at the top of the page, once you clicked in the cloud. Like a "sticky" post, only just for the posts on the tagged page (post tagged '.....').
e.g. I always want the 5th post at this page at the top of this page: http://www.carolineaalbers.nl/?tag=zatopek-dragon
Best regards.
Hi, I would like to set up a tag cloud menu that looks like this: A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I, J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z so that when you click on a letter it brings up a list of all tags that begin with that letter. Is this possible within the native plugin functionality? If so, can you show me how to set up the parameters to only return the first letter as described above?
Thank you in advance!
Hi Nicolas
I have just installed your great plugin, but despite putting different font sizes they all appear under the same one which is a bit boring...Really want something like your tag cloud demo with different size. Is there something I should change in my theme? Thanks!
Oh! I'm seing the light now lol Sorry for the hassle then and thank you for your fast answer Nicolas.
Hello there, whenever I click a tag it will bring me to the correct page but wrong heading. It says "Entires tagged with African Fusion" instead of what it should be. Any way to fix this? The tag cloud is under "Browse by Keyword" in the main menu. Thanks!
I am using WordPress 3.2 and everything seems to be working fine other than the mincount parameter when calling it from the function like this:
if ( function_exists( 'nktagcloud_shortcode' ) ) {
echo nktagcloud_shortcode( 'mincount=3' );
Am I using this incorrectly? Or is this feature broken with the new version?
Hi Nicolas, thank you for a great and really usable plugin!
A problem tough, on my wordpress.org site (theme: Press Portfolio) I have changed in it's php the number of thumbnails displayed on the front page to 24, as you see when you first enter the site or click the logo.
But when I use the Better tag cloud to filter the page down it always return only 10 posts, is there anywhere I can get it to return all the results when clicking the tag?
Thanks a lot!
Regarding my last post, I solved it, it was on the regular settings page/reading... jeez :)
Hi there,
Is it possible with this plugin, or in general, to make the tags given to private posts appear in the cloud also?
Dear Nicolas,
I have installed the better tag cloud plugin. And It seems to work. I have a custom post type registered and I want to show via a widget or the placement code a limited amount of tags of only this Post type. the post type for instance is called dialog, I have also added the post_tags parameter to the registered post type and I have a hand full of tags. But nothing shows up.
I tried the placement but nothing shows up. I am now using the widget on a position i made for it, and the title shows and an empty list. I added the costum post name to the taxonomy field in the widget. To no avail.
What can i do ?
Also added a line to inc/page making sure it uses the taxonomy tags, but this to does nothing.
I have installed this and it does what I want which was to allow me to display more tags than the default. However I cannot make it look the way it's supposed to. The options I have are "flat" or "List" and in my sidebar it looks really neat rather than the default look and how yours looks. Mine is a modelling related blog so I can't post a link here, it is working, it just doesn't look like it's supposed to. Hope I've made sense!
I downloaded your plugin today and I am really happy with it. I appreciate this work you have done for the benefit of others.
I have on question: how can you justify the text in the could. The cloud here on your site looks great. How can I achieve this result also?
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
Bhakti Kamal Tyagi
I have created a custom taxonomy and installed your plug in. Under appearance/widgets I see two versions - better tag cloud and better tag cloud mutli widget. The first one says it is deprecated and to use the "one on the left" which I assumed meant the multi-widget version. When i put it in my sidebar and configured it, it worked fine. I got my cloud pulling up my custom taxonomy (book authors). But I really want it in a page, not in the side bar. So I added the short code to a page instead. However, it is pulling up "tags" not the custom taxonomy. So I am wondering if this short code is taking its settings from somewhere else since they are not matching with how it worked in the side bar.
I looked under Settings in my Dashboard and it too says it is deprecated and use the other widget. I went ahead and configured it anyway just in case. It looks like the page is pulling from these settings (b/c when I add or take away characters in the tag separator field it changes). But the setting are exactly the same as the ones in my widget. Yet the page is pulling up post tags not the custom taxonomy.
Any ideas what is going on? Thanks!
P.S. My site is currently on blogger with only my computer running the wp version (it hasn't all been moved over yet). So you will not be able to see my site on your end).
If you're having the same type of problem as JayHjay - like I was - here's the fix I'm using:
Install & activate the Better Tag Cloud
In the Better Tag Cloud settings (some settings work, but not others…) –
1)Remove CSS for list format that displays the tags inline? Yes (otherwise it wouldn't be in a list)
2)Smallest font size 10 Largest font size 10 (to keep everything in the listing 10 pts)
Update the page.php file (In the Plugins/Editor area – save a copy of the original first!!)
1) replace post_tag with the name of your tag
2) If you don't want the tags to have a link - remove the href codes in the following:
if ( $count > $mincount ) {
if ( $inject_count_outside == 'Yes' ) {
$a[] = "$tag_name" . nktagcloud_add_counter( $tag, $inject_count ) . $the_separator;
else {
$a[] = "$tag_name" . nktagcloud_add_counter( $tag, $inject_count ) ."" . $the_separator;
Then you can use the shortcode [nktagcloud] or [nktagcloud single=yes] etc. in a post or the Text widget in a sidebar.
Of course, if the widget is updated, you'll need to redo the page.php changes.
Hope this helps someone :-)
Hello Nicolas, i have a problem with the Format "flat".
"list" would work, but i like to show more Tags than it would be possible with "list".
So i checked the "flat"-Format and it does the trick, with one thing what i couldn't fix. My Layout is full of Graphic and i like it that way. That also means that the sidebar has a real width of 296px, but really to use is only around of 270px. So if i use the flat-Format on both sides the Tags are invisible and even if i would change the link color it would look ugly.
I searched now for a couple of hours a way trough your code, but i couldn't figure out how to get a div tag or something else inside of the Widget. Already an
 before the first Tag would do the trick if there is one also in the end. But i do not find the right place in the code, what is because i don't have that much knowledge about php/sql. Could i just add somewhere in the page.php a

-Tag to get the correct css format?
Kind Regards
trying to style my tag cloud using css but running into some issues. i would like to put a flat cloud in my sidebar with a styled div container.
i can use the widget settings to get the cloud to style how i want, but now controls over the container. my theme doesn't give me individual classes or ids for each sidebar element. i can't attach a specific css rule to just the cloud.
so i hit on the idea to load the shortcode in atext box that has a styled div in it. that works except the cloud loads as a list instead of flat.
my question is: is there a way to attach an id or class to the widget or is there a way to load flat style to the shortcode?
to see it in action http://illusions-art.com/lorem-ipsum-generators/
Hi, just wondering if you're planning on updating this plugin at any time? It uses several deprecated functions and throws php warnings and notices.
Oh man, only just see this. I programmed just the other day a very similar plugin. Could have maybe picked up this one and updated it.
Hope it's ok I'm linking to mine here, for everyone who wants a plugin that's working with the current WordPress build.
It's the same idea, but also includes shortcodes and options for the archive. Not as feature-rich yet - I'm up for adding often requested features.


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The Royal Cliff Hotels Group is a great place to build a career because we have an excellent reputation as a very dynamic company. You will have the opportunity to interact with many interesting people and organizations as well as business leaders, politicians and royalty who attend our many international events. We will train you and work with you to help improve your skills. Most of all, we truly care about our staff and offer numerous employee benefits including:
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3. Palladium Trade House (2 floor)
That`s obviously a bunch of little traders, but you can find almost anything there.
Lutens (200 $), Malles (200$), Carthusia (50-70$), d`Orsay, Piguet, Helmut Lang, Guerlains, Creeds (70-150 $), Etros, Agent Provocateur, CDG, Gobin-Daude (130-150), L`Artisans (50-90), Goutals, Kanebos, etc. Sure usual suspects of fashion are here as well.
You would not get all-line of them, but for me it`s OK. At least sometimes you can bargain like at eastern bazaar.
Traders buy some new releases in Europe by cash, take it to that Palladium - so prices are high on novelties.
You can find rarities there as well.
Novelties come here faster then usual Russian launches - and you see why.
4. Articoli (GUM, near Red Square)
Whole bunch of brands. Niche and mainstream. True business partners of any western brands. Prices are european.
5. Bloom (Novinskiy bd, 31 - near Le Form)
Caron boutique. Last month - 18 scents of that distinguished House. Prices are higher than parisian.
6. Petrovsky Passage (Petrovka, near ETRO boutique)
Well, there`s two places. Usual russian chain parfumshop l`Etual - 1-st (ground)floor carries brands from mainstream to Creeds and Goutal. Prices are usual moscowian - like 10-20% up to european.
And a little boutique on the 3-rd floor. There are Lutens, Kanebo and other japanese scents... and...
MDCI brand - that`s Pierre Bourdon creation line!
Prices there - rip off, 3 times more! Ex: SL Vetiver Oriental costs 300 $!!!


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Praise for Mind of an Outlaw
"[Mailer's] best and brightest."—Esquire
"The fifty essays collected in this retrospective volume span sixty-four years and show [Norman] Mailer (1923–2007) at his brawny, pugnacious, and egotistical best. . . . This provocative collection brims with insights and reflections that show why Mailer is regarded as a great literary mind of his generation."—Publishers Weekly
"The selections open a window onto the capacious mind and process of one of the most volatile intellects of the twentieth century."—Library Journal
"Vintage Mailer: brilliant, infuriating, witty and never, ever boring."—Tampa Bay Times
"As good an introduction to Mailer's habits of mind as there's ever been."—Kirkus Reviews
"There's no arguing about Mailer the essayist—he was outstanding. . . . These insightful essays educate, argue and persuade on everything from politics and literature to film, philosophy and the human condition."—Shelf Awareness
Praise for Norman Mailer
"[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation."—The New York Times
"A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent."—The New Yorker
"Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure."—The Washington Post
"A devastatingly alive and original creative mind."—Life
"Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance."—The New York Review of Books
"The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book."—Chicago Tribune
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Welcome to the October Carnival of Breastfeeding hosted by The Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog. This month's theme is a little different than past carnivals, in that this month we all wrote "This I believe" essays on topics related to breastfeeding and parenting. Please visit the participating bloggers listed at the bottom of this post.
Trusting my parenting instincts
I believe in attachment parenting or – a name that I like even better – parenting by instinct.
I believe in breastfeeding my children for the countless health benefits as well as the emotional benefits to both me and them. I also believe that children know when they are ready to wean from the breast and I'm doing my best to allow that to happen for us. There are times I've given a gentle push in the weaning direction (with Ava, not at all with Julian yet), but I'm hoping I can allow my children to give it up completely when they feel they are ready.
I believe that co-sleeping with my kids and nighttime parenting helps strengthen the bond between my husband Jody, myself and our kids.
I believe in wearing my babies or holding them in arms. I believe that the closeness and security stimulates them far more than being left lying alone does.
I believe in responding to my baby's cries. I believe that babies cry because they have a need that is not being met – either they are hungry, uncomfortable (wet, too cold, too warm), or they simply need comforting and reassurance. I believe that meeting their needs helps them to develop into emotionally secure children. I've seen it work with Ava. When babies aren't spending their energy on crying and seeking attention, they can use that energy to grow and thrive.
I also believe in gentle discipline. It is challenging and hard at times, and I can't say I haven't lost my temper before, but I strive to discipline gently. I try to think about how I would want to be treated and honor my children with that same respect.
Just as I trusted in my body and my baby when I gave birth to Julian at home, I trust that I will instinctively know how to parent my children. That's not to say that it's always easy, but all of the above things have felt instinctual to me. If it feels right and makes sense, then I go with it. That, I believe, is parenting by instinct.
I believe that the time investment I make in my children's lives while they are young will pay off tremendously as they grow older, and that by doing all of these things, I am creating a solid foundation on which to build a lifelong relationship.
I know some people question how attachment parenting can create independent children, but I have two children who are being parented in this way and they both are very independent. In fact, Ava is sometimes even more independent than I would like. 😉 I believe that by meeting their needs, they come to learn that they can trust Jody (their dad) and me to be there for them when they need us and so they feel safe to venture out on their own.
Parenting is a challenging and amazing experience that takes time, energy and patience, but I believe this investment is all worth it. They make it all worthwhile.
Please take a moment to read some of the other carnival participants' blogs (more will be added throughout the day):
- Half Pint Pixie: "I believe that breastfeeding is natural but not always easy."
- Breastfeeding Mums: "I have a dream…a dream that involves breastfeeding."
- Breastfeeding 1-2-3: "I believe in gentle discipline."
- The Lactivist: "I believe that the things most worth doing in life are hard."
- Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog: "I believe in instinct."
- Such Great Heights: "I believe that you don't have to be a breastfeeding mother to support breastfeeding."
- Hepititis_Epi: "Breastfeeding is worth it."


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Team USA
A fan showed up at 2 a.m. today to make sure he could get a standing room ticket for the sold out game this afternoon between the Rays and Phillies at Bright House Field.
Pat Burrell was an early arrival. Strange to see him in another uniform. He's the DH for the Rays.
Don Fehr held his annual meeting with the Phillies players and the clubhouse was closed starting at 8:30.
Team USA
Davey Johnson's World Baseball Classic's team will work out at Bright House Field at 12:30 p.m. on Monday. The practice session is open to the fans (no charge). Gates open at 11:30 a.m.
Mike Schmidt will be the third base coach for Team USA. "Little pressure giving signs. I never looked for signs when I played," he laughed.
Camp Notes
Pat Gillick threw out the first ball . . . Phillies have added two "B" games against the Blue Jays, Monday (10 a.m.) and Friday (2 p.m.) at Carpenter Field. . . . Charlie Manuel and Joe Maddon are being honored at the annual Clearwater For Youth Banquet tonight . . . In case you haven't noticed, Todd Zolecki is posting the Phillies starting lineup early in his Zo Zone blog. That will carry throughout the season . . . 8 a.m. bus tomorrow for a trip to Orlando to play the Braves . . . Condolences to Gary Matthews, whose mother, Catherine, died Thursday in Atlanta. Gary will not be in the TV booth today.
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Please pass my sympathies to Sarge :O( He will be in my prayers…


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The answer to that question is …. depends on who you ask. As John Kerry tries to pressure both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a negotiated two-state solution, the Palestinian Authority seemed to offer a glimmer of hope that Mahmoud Abbas would finally offer recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, which for the Israelis is the first principle of the negotiations:
US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro asserted on Friday that the framework peace deal currently being negotiated by US Secretary of State of John Kerry will include Palestinian recognition of Israel as "the nation state of the Jewish people.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's insistence that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas recognize Israel's Jewishness has been a sticking point in negotiations, with the Palestinians refusing to accede to a demand that would tacitly do away with Palestinian hopes for a "right of return" for refugees and their descendants.
"It's too early to know what compromises and concessions both sides will make," Shapiro told Israel Radio on Friday morning. "But we do believe… that Israel deserves recognition as a Jewish state. That has always been US policy — that Israel is a Jewish state and should remain a Jewish state. That will be one of the elements of the framework we're working on."
Well, that's certainly the US position, and has been since 1948. That hasn't been the position at all of the Palestinian Authority or its predecessor, the PLO. They have demanded the right to return as their own sine que non of the standoff, which means that Israel would have to allow all Palestinians and their descendants to return to their homes before the 1948 war launched by Arab nations to wipe out the Jewish state of Israel. Such a demand would destroy the integrity of the Jewish state, which has been the ultimate goal of the PLO and PA, and the reason why frameworks in this conflict always collapse. If the US got that concession from Abbas, that would be a huge, dramatic development.
That, however, is a mighty big if, and the PA scotched the leak quickly:
Ideas proposed by US Secretary of State John Kerry to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas cannot "serve as the basis for a framework accord" with Israel, a Palestinian official said Friday.
"The ideas proposed cannot be accepted by the Palestinian side as the basis for a framework accord between the Palestinians and Israel as they do not take into account the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people," he told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity, after Abbas and Kerry met in Paris this week.
"The Palestinian position explained to Mr. Kerry is that the proposed ideas, particularly the insistences on recognition of the state of Israel as the Jewish nation-state, are unacceptable," the official said.
AFP had this story late Friday, and in its original form it included the objection to recognition of Israel as a Jewish state. By yesterday, the report changed to eliminate the objection to the recognition issue. Given the centrality of this issue to the negotiations, it's curious that AFP chose to eliminate it from the story overnight.
It appears that the US either tried to pressure Abbas into agreeing to recognizing Israel as a Jewish state, or he agreed and then reneged. I'd tend to believe the former more than the latter, in part because the US tends to do this a lot, even though it doesn't seem to work very often, and in this case may make it more difficult for Abbas to accept the position — assuming he ever will. The problem isn't the two-state solution so much as it is the refusal of the Palestinian Authority to actually accept it as an end result. They want an end to the Jewish state, period, and they're not likely to accept any solution that falls short of that goal.
That's not the only spectre of a "right of return," either. A plan by Spain to offer citizenship to the descendants of Jews expelled during the Middle Ages in a paroxysm of anti-Semitism has Muslims demanding equal treatment:
Muslim groups are demanding Spanish citizenship for potentially millions of descendants of Muslims who were expelled from Spain during the Middle Ages.
The growing clamor for "historical justice" comes after the recent approval of a law that would grant Spanish citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in 1492.
Muslim supporters say they are entitled to the same rights and privileges as Jews because both groups were expelled from Spain under similar historical circumstances.
But historians point out that the Jewish presence in Spain predates the arrival of Christianity in the country and that their expulsion was a matter of bigotry. By contrast, the Muslims in Spain were colonial occupiers who called the territory Al-Andalus and imposed Arabic as the official language. Historians say their expulsion was a matter of decolonization. …
Much of the Iberian Peninsula was occupied by Muslim conquerors known as the Moors from 711 until 1492, when the Moorish Kingdom of Granada surrendered to the Catholic Monarchs of Spain (Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon), in what is known as the Christian Reconquest.
But the final Muslim expulsion from Granada did not take place until over a century later, beginning in 1609, when King Philip III decreed the expulsion of the Moriscos.
John Hinderaker points out the absurdity of the demand, and its parallel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
As Spanish officials have pointed out, this is a ridiculous claim. Jews whose ancestors had lived peacefully in Iberia for more than a millennium were kicked out as part of the European anti-Semitism of the time. The Moors, on the other hand, were hostile invaders who conquered by the sword, but ultimately were defeated. They abandoned Spain because they lost the war. Understandably, Spain has no interest in admitting millions of new North African immigrants:
[T]he descendants of Muslims expelled from Spain are believed to number in the millions—possibly tens of millions—and most of them now live in North Africa. Observers say that by granting citizenship to all of them, Spain, virtually overnight, would end up with the largest Muslim population in the European Union.
Many Europeans have been sympathetic to the Arabs' claim of a "right of return" to Israel. Perhaps the Spanish controversy will cause some of them to re-think that issue.
Actually, the two rights of return are quite similar. In 1948, the Arab countries that surround Israel launched a coordinated attack, the purpose of which was to destroy the new Israeli state and murder its Jewish population. Many Arabs left Israel at the time of that invasion, most voluntarily, some, probably, involuntarily. They intended to come back in triumph, but to their surprise, the Arabs lost the war and they were no longer welcome. Much like the Muslims of Al-Andalus: that's what happens when you start a war, and then lose it.
Regardless of the history, Israel clearly cannot survive as a Jewish state with a Palestinian right to return. If the Palestinians want their own state, they're going to have to forgo that, and accept the fact of Israel as a Jewish state. Otherwise, there is clearly not much to discuss in terms of a permanent settlement.


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As the "The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien" draws to a close on Friday night, AccessHollywood.com takes a look back at some of CoCo's most popular and best moments from his short – but stellar – almost eight months behind the desk.
According to Hulu.com, Sarah Palin's appearance in December 2009 (getting back at William Shatner for mocking her) is the most watched clip from Conan's show. Regardless of your politics, no one can deny the comedy gold in Palin reading from Shatner's biography, "Up Till Now."
And the reason for Palin's appearance – Shatner's recreation of Palin's farewell speech after she left the Governor's office in July 2009. And then more Shatner/Palin fun happened when he recreated her Tweets in a hilarious spoken word performance.
One of Conan's best obscure bits had to be "The Tonight Show Mini Dose of Joy" segment, in which he gave us puppies dressed as cats – absurd and cute – and all Conan!
No Conan list would be complete without an appearance by Triumph The Insult Comic Dog. Triumph's visit to the Bonnaroo Music Festival in June 2009 was highly inappropriate… and beyond funny.
Another classic inappropriate Conan moment that we're still having trouble forgetting is Sacha Baron Cohen's appearance as his character "Bruno" in June 2009 – but we're sure Conan is more scarred than anyone else.
Following Internet rumors that his show's set was based on Nintendo's Super Mario Bros video game, Conan addressed the notion with a great visual gag. We're still picturing Mario and Luigi in that backdrop!
When Conan brought back his "Late Show" bit "In The Year 2000" in a new "Tonight Show" form, he renamed it "In The Year 3000" – and it was still just as good.
And for a look at where it started, Conan's classic cold opening bit on the first show on June 1, 2009.
On his last show on Friday, Conan will welcome back his first guest, Will Ferrell, and also be joined by Tom Hanks and Neil Young. He might have been cancelled prematurely, but during Thursday's monologue, Conan noted that his last show would definitely be one to remember.
"Tomorrow night we're going to have a lot of fun on television. We have amazing guests stopping by. We have some really fun surprises planned," he said during his opening monologue, adding, "I am prohibited from coming within 500 yards of 11:30… I must return the Etch-A-Sketch my contract was written on… I'm not allowed to make fun of NBC programming. I have to let the programming speak for itself."
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 75 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
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Muscle for Hire. We are 3 cousins who have started up an odd jobs business. My background is personal training which is partly behind my incorporating "muscle" into the name. Our tag line is; Young Muscle, Old School Hustle. We are eager to take on any task a client throws at us - Chiefly landscaping and yardwork , but really any tough, heavy job that needs to be done. We are young- mid 20's to mid 30's. Hard working but fun loving. We want to convey as much of this as possible in our logo. Our willingness to work and word hard. And fast. And the advantage of our youthful energy.
We are targeting women who need heavy lifting or tough jobs done. Executives who do not want to break a nail, get a splinter or get their manicured hands calloused. ;) And general contractors who can refer us to homeowners who fall into the two previous categories. These markets may not know how to perform some of the services we provide but more often than not they just don't WANT to, and thats fine. That's where we come in!
Basically we want a client to see our logo and want to BUY a shirt from us! We're cool cats and we NEED our logo to be cool too!
1. Must be cool, sexy and masculine.
2. Must exude confidence. Have a little swagger to it!
3. Something to do with muscles. perhaps a torso? maybe just an arm?
4. Clear type, simple bold. I'm a fan of retro artwork. Not necessary but something reminiscent of the 30's to 60's might be cool. James Deanish, Rat Packish etc. Again NOT NECESSARY but I'm, attaching a picture of this style for your reference that might be really cool.
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FERS stands for the Federal Employees Retirement System. FERS became effective in 1987 and most new Federal civilian employees hired after 1983 are automatically covered by FERS. FERS is a three-tiered retirement plan. The three components are the:
Most FERS employees pay 0.8% of basic pay for FERS basic benefits. The agency contributes 10.7% or more to FERS. The FERS basic benefit provides retirement, disability, and survivor benefits and may be reduced for early retirement or to provide survivor protection.
The FERS basic benefit is computed based on your length of service and the highest average basic pay you earned during any 3 consecutive years of service (know as the "high-3" average pay). Generally, the FERS basic benefit is 1% of your high-3 average pay times your years of creditable service.
FERS employees can currently contribute up to 11% of basic pay to the Thrift Savings Plan. An automatic Government contribution adds 1% of basic pay to every FERS employee's TSP account. The Government adds up to another 4% of basic pay, depending on how much the employee chooses to contribute.
Unless you choose FERS, there is no additional cost to you. If you choose FERS, you will only incur additional costs if you decide to make additional TSP contributions (known as make-up contributions). These are contributions that you could have made if you had been correctly covered by FERS. Of course, you're the one who chooses how much additional contributions you want to make.
The earliest a person can start receiving Social Security retirement benefits is age 62. Your Social Security retirement benefit is reduced if you begin receiving them before your full retirement age.
Full retirement age has been age 65 for many years. However, beginning with people born in 1938 or later, that age will gradually increase until it reaches 67 for people born after 1959.
Year of Birth
Full Retirement Age
FERCCA is the Federal Erroneous Retirement Coverage Corrections Act. It is a law that addresses the long-term harm to retirement planning created when employees are put in the wrong retirement plan.
TSP stands for the Thrift Savings Plan. The TSP is an important benefit designed to help you save for your future. The TSP is comparable to a private-sector tax-deferred 401(k) plan. You can participate in the TSP if you are covered by FERS, CSRS, or CSRS Offset.
The TSP offers all participants:
The TSP is especially important for FERS employees because it is one of three parts of your retirement coverage. Beginning July 1, 2001, FERS employees can contribute as much as 11% of basic pay each pay period, up to the IRS annual limit. (The IRS limit for 2001 is $10,500.) As a FERS employee, you can receive 2 types of agency contributions to your TSP account, which together can equal as much as 5 percent of your basic pay.
CSRS employees do not receive any Government contributions in their TSP accounts. However, CSRS employees can still take advantage of the TSP to provide a source of retirement income in addition to your CSRS retirement benefit. Beginning July 1, 2001, CSRS employees can contribute up to 6% of basic pay each pay period.
Social Security benefits are based on earnings averaged over most of a worker's lifetime. Your actual earnings are first adjusted or "indexed" to account for changes in average wages since the year the earnings were received. Then the Social Security Administration calculates your average monthly indexed earnings during the 35 years in which you earned the most. The Social Security Administration applies a formula to these earnings and arrives at your basic benefit, or "primary insurance amount" (PIA). This is the amount you would receive at your full retirement age.
As you can see from the above, the benefit computation is complex and there are no simple tables that we can give you that will tell you how much you will receive. However, there are several ways you can find out how your Social Security retirement benefit is figured:
We believe that the number of employees in the wrong retirement plan is very small. Agencies have discovered and corrected many retirement coverage errors. However, we are certain some employees still are in the wrong retirement plan.
If you have not worked for the Federal Government continuously since 1983, or you have had changes in appointment types and retirement plans, then you may want to ask your agency to review your retirement coverage to ensure that it is correct.
Social Security-Only means coverage under Social Security without also being covered under either CSRS or FERS. You would have Social Security-Only coverage if you were hired under an appointment that is excluded from CSRS or FERS.
Usually employees serving under temporary appointments (limited to 1 year or less), intermittent employees, and other appointments that would not be expected to last at least 5 years (such as term and excepted indefinite appointments) are excluded from CSRS.
Employees serving under temporary (limited to 1 year or less) appointments and intermittent employees are generally excluded from FERS.
It depends on what your retirement coverage error was and how long you were in the wrong retirement plan. FERCCA may provide you one or all of the following:
"Transitional retirement coverage" or CSRS Interim is a version of CSRS established pending creation of a new retirement system for employees first hired after December 31, 1983, and certain rehires. Employees covered by CSRS Interim provisions paid OASDI taxes and a reduced CSRS contribution. When FERS became effective on January 1, 1987, employees with CSRS Interim coverage acquired either FERS or CSRS Offset coverage.
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