Today I added a new “widget” to my blog. It’s that thing labeled “Categories” over on the left side just under the calendar.
It’s called a “category cloud” in that the number of posts that I have designated as part of a category are shown in relative size to the number of posts. So, for example, right now the category of “Technology for Writers” is the largest typeface and has the largest number of posts that have that category listed by me when a new article is uploaded to the blog.
This post, as you can see at the bottom where information is provided, is placed into the “Technology for Writers” and “Ten Keyboards Business” categories. The plugin then takes and recalculates how many posts are in the various categories I listed and updates the size of the type in the “category cloud.”
The least number of posts are the smallest typeface — and there are a lot of them!
That’s why I like the so-called clouds: It’s a visual way of seeing where I have been concentrating on my writing and where I need to fill in with more posts on a particular category.
The other interesting thing about “clouds” is that they conserve space. As I write this, the regular Categories listed are equal sized and vertical — taking up a lot of space. That might be OK depending upon your blog template and how you want your site to look. But this plugin gives you a good option to change if you need to.
I’m going to try it out for a while and see how it goes. Does it make the blog look better compared to the regular Category presentation?
Scot
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