The Wall Street Journal featured a US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud today to lead up to the State of the Union address. Looking at tag clouds over time has become one of my tasks at work, so I found it to be an interesting approach from the technical point of view. The author also made the source code available, and being in PHP it seemed to be a natural fit for a neat WordPress plugin!
Unfortunately, my host doesn’t have the required version 5 of PHP, so I had to jump through some hoops to run it on my home machine. Tweaking the WordPress loop, I was able to get all my posts into the XML format desired by the Tagline Generator. The hard part, as always, was formatting the output templates to match the rest of my site. Here’s the final product: a tag timeline for my blog.
I’ll be cleaning up my modifications and releasing them under the Creative Commons License as the original author did.
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