How do I display an unlimited number of tags?

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  irreverentmother · Member · Jul 13, 2011 at 11:33 am

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  Hello

  How do I display an unlimited number of tags. At the moment the limited number of tags in not representative of what’s been tagged on my blog. Before moving to WordPress, I had a blogger url, which allowed me to display all of my tags, for example: http://legionofmarys.blogspot.com/

  I have upgraded to CSS, but I still haven’t been able to sort it out.

  Some help would be appreciated.

  Regards

  Marcus
  Blog url: http://legionofmarys.wordpress.com/

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  hanni · Member · Jul 13, 2011 at 2:17 pm

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  Unfortunately you’d need to do this manually (I know!) as the tag cloud widget is deliberately limited to your most popular 45 tags – my apologies!

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  irreverentmother · Member · Jul 13, 2011 at 3:49 pm

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  Pardon? Hanni that response is of no use.

  Could you at least please detail how to change it manually?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 13, 2011 at 7:21 pm

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  You’ll have to link them up manually, via a Link widget or Text widget (using HTML).

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  irreverentmother · Member · Jul 14, 2011 at 8:18 am

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  Hi macmanx, sounds great but I actually need to be spoonfed the instructions.

  I.e. First do this. Then press that. Then type in…

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  designsimply · Member · Jul 14, 2011 at 10:35 am

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  First, you don’t need the Custom CSS option to display tags. If you’d rather not keep that, let me know and I can refund it for you. Custom Design is cool though, if you want to keep it there are some neat things you can to do customize layouts. Learning CSS can be totally fun too!

  The Tag Cloud sidebar widget on WordPress.com is limited to the 45 most popular tags. Note that displaying too many tags is a red flag for spam. You should limit the tags to only a few per post, and note that the tags are seen by search engines when they crawl through a site regardless of whether or not they are shown on the sidebar. I would recommend keeping the existing tag cloud with the 45 most popular tags showing instead of creating a custom tag list.

  If you still want to add more tag links to the sidebar, you can do it manually in a text widget but I think it’s a lot of work to do it that way. Here are some steps for one way if you still want to do it:

  1. Go to Posts → Post Tags and click on “View” for each tag and copy down each tag URL.
  2. Go to Appearance → Widgets and add a text widget to the sidebar.
  3. Add html to the larger space inside the text widget.

  Here is an example of what kind of html you could add:

  <ul>
  <li><a href="TAG_URL">TAG_NAME</a></li>
  <li><a href="TAG_URL">TAG_NAME</a></li>
  </ul>

  Replace TAG_URL with the tag URL starting with http://

  Replace TAG_NAME with the tag name.

  Repeat the line starting with <li to create a bullet list of all of your tags.

  You would need to add the tag manually to your sidebar for each tag you create in the future.