WordPress Heat Map plugin
Update 05/05/14: There’s a new dedicated projects page for the WordPress Heat Map plugin where all further development will proceed. Please refer to this page for information about this plugin in the future.
The WordPress Heat Map plugin provides you with two new template tags for displaying a heat map (aka weighted list) of your categories and your monthly archives. Activity in any given category or month can be indicated by varying font sizes, color intensities or both. There are versions of this plugin for both wordpress v1.5 and v1.2.
You can check out a live demonstration of this plugin at the archives page where it’s used for the “Activity by Month” section.
This plugin was largely inspired by Matt Kingston’s excellent Weighted Categories plugin.
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Thank you so much for this! Gives me inspiration to actually make a proper archives page.
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I really want to get this thing working, but for the life of me I can’t see how it works.
After I activate the plugin..where am I supposed to point my browser to see my heat map?
Confuzzled…?
Hi Christoph,
is there any way to make your (fabulous!) plugin to show commonly used (key)words instead of categories or archives?
@Heatsink: The plugin doesn’t automatically provide you with a heat map page upon activation. Activating the plugin will give you two new template tags as described above (more information about template tags at wordpress codex). You have to include these tags somewhere in one of your templates to display a heat map on your site. If you need more help on this, feel free to send me an e-mail.
@Erwin: Sorry, the plugin can’t do this at the moment. Are you thinking of keywords inferred from the full content of your posts or keywords provided via some plugin utilizing custom fields? For the former, i can’t think of any feasible way to get useful results. For the latter, i might be able to add this if you could point me towards the plugin in question or provide me with information about the custom fields in use.
Hey Christoph, thanks for getting back to me. :)
On my blog I use the keywords plugin made by Jerome Lavigne (http://vapourtrails.ca/2005-03/jeromes-keywords-14/)
As I was looking up the url of the plugin, I read that Jerome himself is actuelly working on a tag-cosmos plugin to work with the keywords plugin.
Good times!
Thanks for your generous offer, but I’ll go with the thingie Jerome is working on as it should work side by side with keywords perfectly. :)
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Wow Heavy Man.
Sweet! I now have Heat Maps or “Weighted Tags” in my archive (Which looks like crap I know). This is thanks due to the Heat Map plugin from engadgeted.net. Many thanks to the author. This one worked whereas the other I tried didn’t. Although this o…
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Thanks Christoph for the great plugin.
Missing from here is the code you enter into your wordpress file -index.php,sidebar.php,whatever-
You can get an example snippet of code from http://www.creationrobot.com/wp-content/tagcloud_code.txt
HTH
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Hi,
Thanks for the plugin! One note, there is a small bug in your default markup. The default for after is missing the trailing ; (semicolon). This is in line 11 of wp-heatmap.php.
Other than that, great success! Wonder if I can get the cool overlapping effect?
Oh boy, that bug sure is embarassing, thanks for pointing it out - it’ll be fixed in a minute.
I really want to get this thing working, but for the life of me I can’t see how it works.
After I activate the plugin..where am I supposed to point my browser to see my heat map?
Confuzzled…?
Morfey, you have to put the template tags (heatmap_categories(), heatmap_archives(), see above) somewhere into your template files for displaying a heat map. You can get more info about templates on the wordpress codex.
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