Represents the posts of your community as a Word Cloud summary. The words are animated and if clicked will perform a simple word search.
Get to it by hitting Word Cloud on the Hamburger menu or navigating to yoursite.com/word_cloud - NB you have to be logged in as a registered user to see it and it’s only on desktop.
To refresh data, Trigger the job:
Otherwise this runs every hour.
Interested in the data?
My intention was just to paint a picture.
If you want to see the data, just go to yoursite.com/wordcloud.json
Configuration
Settings … so … many … settings:
Restrict to specific Categories:
Word Cloud Ignore List (300 words by default, using a list I found here ):
NB Word stats are updated every hour now (which is probably still excessive, but for the time being makes it easier to checkout changes in Production as we go through a lot of initial code evolution).
NB#2 I’ve not yet considered other languages here beyond English (it’s certainly not tested). The current word manipulation may not work well in some languages. Suggestions & PR’s welcome.
If you select no Category (default) you get a scan of all forum Posts (PMs and all). If you add just one Category, word stats are restricted to that etc.
Known issues
Currently doesn’t support Safari. This issue was introduced once I added responsiveness. I’m very busy these days, so if you can find a solution PR Accepted.
TODO
It may not support other languages. I’ve only tested English. PR Welcome.
The menu item has localisation support, but if no-one has yet PR’d your localisation yet, please consider doing so or otherwise it will remain a key code …
Add option to have it appear on the front screen above Topic Lists (much like the Discourse Tag Cloud Theme Component). PR Accepted.
Looks like you have a set of script permissions violations in your console. You need to give your site the right to run these scripts. Look at content security policy script src.
Is word cloud the same one for all, or one for each?
You see we have locker mechanism, to set users only have some regions but not all categaries, when searching, it also suits only for that one account’s available posts.
Same for all. To tailor the output would require a lot more server resources so I haven’t gone down that road. Also it needs a sufficiently large dataset to make sense so creating one for small sets of words might not lead to very interesting results.
The word cloud is so abstract I’m not sure it matters if some categories are locked. However on some communities it could be an issue depending on the content. The search results from clicking a word will only return Topics to which you have access of course.
GitHub: 
Install: Follow the plugin installation guide.
There’s just no formal Topic for it yet: 
(which as a TC is even simpler to install).
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