Popular tags widget not displaying the most popular tags

Hello, Basilis

I found a great post that makes it really easy to adjust, so I wanted to share. I used the PHP version in the functions.php for my child theme, then simply added in the shortcode and it’s perfect! there are also 2 good plugins that are even easier to play around with :)

[wpb_popular_tags]

Here’s the article –

https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-display-most-popular-tags-in-wordpress/

<?php 

function wpb_tag_cloud() { 
$tags = get_tags();
$args = array(
    'smallest'                  => 12, // default is 10 
    'largest'                   => 12, // default is 22 
    'unit'                      => 'px', 
    'number'                    => 30, // default is 10
    'format'                    => 'flat',
    'separator'                 => " ",
    'orderby'                   => 'count', 
    'order'                     => 'DESC',
    'show_count'                => 1,
    'echo'                      => false
); 
 
$tag_string = wp_generate_tag_cloud( $tags, $args );
 
return $tag_string; 
 
} 
// Add a shortcode so that we can use it in widgets, posts, and pages
add_shortcode('wpb_popular_tags', 'wpb_tag_cloud'); 
 
// Enable shortcode execution in text widget
add_filter ('widget_text', 'do_shortcode'); 

Hi, Rikard

The option I mentioned worked except for the fact that it didn’t actually load the posts with those tags, so that was replaced with the second option, ie, the free simple tags plugin, which is working properly.

I do have another post connected to this dynamically generated page because the title for the page when the user clicks on a tag is a generic ‘Posts’. there are older posts here on Enfold that resolve this but not your latest version, so I’m waiting to see how to modify your newer code.

Here’s my post about the page titles –

https://kriesi.at/support/topic/change-page-title-for-tag-click-results/