The Discourse Tag Cloud theme component by merefield adds a responsive, desktop-only tag cloud to the Tags page (and optionally the Discovery List), with tag size reflecting usage frequency. Built with D3.js and Jason Davies’ word cloud layout, it supports customization of scale, canvas height, and color (including monochrome), and now includes tags from Tag Groups when enabled 55949e7. Known issues include potential tag omission if canvas is too small, no mobile support, no automatic dark mode, and animation glitches 1. Users reported CSP errors requiring uploads folder whitelisting 5, and a bug where grouped tags didn’t appear until fixed in v21 18. Some users asked about filtering by Tag Group 22 or font customization 25, both currently unsupported but open for PRs 26. For trending words by content, merefield recommends the Word Cloud Plugin or Discourse’s built-in Top list 12. Live demo: https://starzen.space/tags.
Adds a traditional(ish), responsive tag “cloud” to the Tag page and optionally to the top of the Discovery List for ease of navigation. The tags are automatically arranged in a cloud, whilst their relative size represents the frequency of their use.
If you don’t make the cloud large enough, or the tags scale small enough, it will arbitrarily miss out some tags. Experiment.
Due to the potentially small touch targets it’s not enabled on mobile. Consider your settings carefully when using on Tablet. I may provide a way to disable on tablets in future.
No automated dark mode support. The default colour scheme is chosen to be neutral and work on both light and dark themes. It is possible to make it all white or all black-ish by messing with the colour settings. Potentially you could install two and set them up differently for dark mode. I’ll have to think about adding some automation here.
If you have animation enabled and flick quickly between the words they will shrink. That’s unavoidable, I believe as you don’t give enough time for the mouse out animation. Hence I provide a way to disable the animation in settings.
I got an error message saying Refused to load the script 'https://{{some url}}.js' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src" and Note that 'script-src-elem' was not explicitly set, so 'script-src' is used as a fallback.
No, it’s literally a cloud of Discourse Tags. However, I also made: Word Cloud plugin (which is linked in the OP btw), which sounds more like what you are describing?
The Word Cloud plugin is probably closest but that doesn’t have a time dimension (yet), it takes aggregate statistics from the entire forum (or select Categories).
I check the source code and find the computed tags property only returned tags group in tags.json, the others are in extras.tag_groups. However, I couldn’t figure out how to fix the issue.
Well done for having a go, but if you want me to fix anything it would be most useful to have functional steps to reproduce, please, from the front end, as if just a user, because right now I can’t see the problem.
