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Now, installing UTW is fairly straightforward, however it is just so rich with options that it could confuse those that are not familiar with the way WP works. Here’s how I did it:

• Downloaded the plugin and copied the entire plugin folder to the wp-admin/content/plugins directory.

• Activated the plugin from the WP dashboard.

• Added the code-snippet for displaying the tag-cloud from the themes/example-bits/tags.php file into the sidebar.php in my theme.

• Edited the tag.php to reflect my single.php and uploaded it to my themes directory.

• Edited the $maxtagcolour and $maxtagcolour values to reflect those in my stylesheet in the ultimate-tag-warrior-core.php file located in the plugins/UltimateTagWarrior/ directory. I just realised that the plugin itself has a configuration option to set these values. Like a true geek, I had gone and done it the hard way. D’oh!

• And finally, I edited the ultimate-tag-warrior-core.php and added onmouseover and onmouseout events for hover colours.

And that’s it! Viola, you can see the tag-cloud on the sidebar, and clicking on a particular tag takes you to the tag results page. There is a lot more that you could do with this plugin, but some day I will get around to it.

And if you are planning to install UTW, you might also find the UTW article by Lorelle on Wordpress to be quite useful.

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