Category Cloud

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  artmodel · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 2:09 am

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  I want to add a Category Cloud to my sidebar. I inserted the widget and it appeared just fine, and looked nice. But it doesn’t actually work or link to posts. I started categorizing previously uncategorized posts and they did show up in the sidebar but UNDERNEATH the Category Cloud as links. It looked awful so I removed the widget for the time being.

  I’m using Dusk theme. I usually have no problem with widgets, which is why I suspect I’m missing something so obvious that I must be a moron. It can’t be a plug-in, right, because I thought plug-ins were not allowed on wordpress.com?

  Any help on how to set up the Category Cloud widget would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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  vivianpaige · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 2:30 am

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  The category cloud I see in your sidebar looks correct to me. Most of your posts are uncategorized, so that’s the largest one. I don’t see any individual posts, only that the categories are links themselves – to the posts in that category.

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  artmodel · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 2:35 am

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  Vivianpage,

  I took out the category cloud. It’s not there right now. Where do you see one?? Now I’m confused.

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  vivianpaige · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 2:44 am

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  It’s gone from your blog now (I assume this is the blog you’re talking about http://artmodel.wordpress.com/ )

  What I saw was a list of words underneath that picture that says “I’m a proud supporter!” None of the words were clickable. Then under that I saw links to categories. I didn’t look at the source on your blog – I assumed that was the category cloud.

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  artmodel · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 2:51 am

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  Yeah, that was the problem. The cloud looked nice, but none of the words were clickable. The links underneath the cloud were. Which didn’t make any sense to me – why have a cloud and then the working links below it? I don’t how how to make the words in the cloud to link.

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  vivianpaige · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 3:12 am

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  There was something wrong, though, because you shouldn’t have had that first list of unclickable words. (BTW – I have the category cloud on my blog.) You may need to contact support when they reopen Monday.

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  artmodel · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 3:24 am

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  Vivian, yours is great. Exactly what I’m trying to do. Did you just put the widget in your sidebar and it worked?

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  vivianpaige · Member · Jul 20, 2008 at 3:25 am

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  Yep. That’s all you do. It is automatically populated by the categories.