Living Tags

Welcome to Living Tags! Yes they are alive! They even can dance, sing, code and much more! :) Have a look at the following example and decide yourself if you want to add this to your blog.

Several people asked me about the license. Living tags is free, completely. No credits required.

Living Tags works with Ultimate tag Warrior and Jerome's Keywords


Ultimate Tag Warrior

  • download and install Ultimate Tag Warrior Plugin
  • copy the file "wp-livingtags-utw.php" into the document root of your wordpress installation
  • change Living Tags SWF Object Tag to "tagsXML=/wp-livingtags-utw.php" in both param and object version


    Jerome's Keywords

  • download and install Jerome's Keywords Plugin
  • copy the file "wp-livingtags-jk.php" into the document root of your wordpress installation
  • change Living Tags SWF Object Tag to "tagsXML=/wp-livingtags-jk.php" in both param and object version


    Example 1

    Example 2 (no frictions and connections)


    Example 3 (Sidebar style : no friction and faster)



    You can complete customize your living tags. You can change all the colors, the width, the height, the font, the speed, the friction and you can even let certain tags connect to each other.

    Download Living Tags!


    • 28 Comments

    1. Oliver Wagner 2007-01-3, 1:06 pm

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      Hi,

      looks like a great visualization for Tags.

      Any plans to make this work also with UTW?
      http://www.neato.co.nz/ultimate-tag-warrior/

      That would be great!!

    2. manfred.weber 2007-01-3, 1:09 pm

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      Hi, thanks for the hint. :)

    3. manfred.weber 2007-01-3, 3:08 pm

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      Hello Oliver,
      I added UTW Support now. Just download the new zip file and see README. There is a new file with the name wp-livingtags-utw.php which should go into the root folder of Wordpress installation. Then you have to edit Living Tags SWF Object Tag tagsXML=/wp-livingtags-utw.php in both param and object version.

    4. Dave 2007-01-4, 3:21 am

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      Mandred - could you explain how and where to put each file a little better. I’m still slightly confused as to what goes in the ‘root’ vs. plugin directory.

    5. Orlando 2007-01-4, 10:05 am

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      This is great!

    6. manfred.weber 2007-01-4, 10:32 am

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      Hi Dave,

      ok here is my folder structure, but you can ofcourse modifiy it like you want
      - ~/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/lush/livingtags.swf
      ~/public_html/wordpress/wp-livingtags-utw.php

      I hope that helps.

    7. ??? 2007-01-7, 5:37 am

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      I got so confused. How about the “livingtags.xml” and “wp-livingtags-jk.php” documents?

      Could you please explain clearly how to put each document ?

      I really love this plugin , it looks so cool and so great.Thanks a lot.

    8. Saqib Khan 2007-01-10, 12:25 pm

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      I uploaded the two files to the advised folders.

      However I cant seem to find Living Tags SWF Object Tag.

      And what do you mean by ‘edit in param and object version’?

      And dont we have to put some file in the plugins folder?

      Could you please explain?

      Thanx!

    9. Manfred Weber 2007-01-10, 12:55 pm

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      It does not matter where you upload “livingtags.xml” and “wp-livingtags-jk.php”, as long as they are accessible through the browser.



      So I put the livingtags.swf and the wp-livingtags-utw.php into the following folder:

      ~/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/lush/livingtags.swf

      ~/public_html/wordpress/wp-livingtags-utw.php



      Then edit your template and add the flash object-tag. If you dont know how to do that, take a look at the source code of this page.


      Modify the SWF-Object Tag to display the flash movie.



      Please look at the “tagsXML” attribute in both cases. The object version and the embed version.
      tagsXML=/wp-livingtags-utw.php

      This should point to the dataSource file (either wp-livingtags-utw.php or wp-livingtags-jk.php)



      The same for the swf file:
      src=”/wp-content/themes/lush/livingtags.swf”

      I hope this helps.

    10. ckiikc 2007-01-12, 2:35 am

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      it is possible to use living tags with ASP?
      tanks

    11. Manfred Weber 2007-01-12, 9:49 am

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      ckiikc, sure… but you have to create your own xml dataprovider in ASP then!

    12. ckiikc 2007-01-12, 11:35 am

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      yeah I’ ve made it!
      thanks

    13. Bastian Sackermamn 2007-01-16, 6:06 pm

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      I would like to add the livetags.swf to a plugin for textpattern.

      May I?

      I didn’t found any copyright.

    14. Manfred Weber 2007-01-16, 6:44 pm

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      Bastian, sure, … I only ask not to remove me from the credits. :)

    15. Pod 2007-02-22, 8:05 pm

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      hi. so cool this plugin is! but it doesn’t work on my wordpress! i use UTW, so uploaded files on my root. plz see http://meiclamo.net/livingtags.html . when i delete livingtags.xml file, no tag on flash appears. so i guess flash loads the xml file without any problem. but how can i regenerate the xml file for my tags? when i excute wp-livingtags-utw.php, nothing happens, and the xml file is not changed.

    16. Manfred Weber 2007-02-22, 8:16 pm

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      hi POD, can I you give me the link to your wp-livingtags-utw.php ?
      You´ll find mine here for example: http://manfred.dschini.org/wp-livingtags.php/
      where the flash-tag it points here: tagsXML=/wp-livingtags.php

    17. Pod 2007-02-22, 8:53 pm

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      ah~ i’ve got it! see the first flash on http://meiclamo.net/livingtags.html :-)

      but i think the number of total tags displayed should be limitted! i use more than 100 tags! could you add an option to liimit it when you release a next version?

    18. Mei Clamo 2007-02-22, 8:55 pm

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      WordPress plugin, Flash Tag Cloud

      Now in version 0.2!

      CLICK HERE if you use English!

    19. paul 2007-02-26, 4:03 pm

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      looks like a great program….but cannot get it work. I thought I did it all. I put the files in the right folders (swf to the theme the phps in the root) I copied the source of this page changing the phps to the correct name UTW. and ….well the flash file never loads.

      Any suggestions?

    20. Omega Zen 2007-04-28, 5:16 am

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      Manfred,

      In your examples, your floating bubbles are different sizes. How did you get them to be different?

      Thanks for your time and help,

      -Omega Zen

    21. na3s 2007-07-19, 10:33 pm

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      Will this ever be available for Simple Tagging plugin for wordpress?
      (http://trac.herewithme.fr/project/simpletagging/)

    22. Manfred Weber 2007-07-20, 12:26 am

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      na3s, this is not planned and neither on my todo list. feel free to implement it :)

    23. VINTA 2007-08-10, 7:42 am

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      but my tags are too many
      can i abridge their display in codes?

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      soit que tu soit un jour tu moura…….

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