mccormicky

I’d done it for all of my client’s sites weeks ago but neglected my own.Then I had to sort through all my many posts in order to tag them.Tedious but I want to have just a few categories show up in my sidebar and using tags instead of lots of categories makes this easier to do.The problem is that each category(there are a lot) is a searchable link so if I delete them someone might get the 404 message and I don’t want that.
My categories are now sorted into 3 main ones,Tech and Personal and Recipes.I made a Page template with a modified loop so now posts with those categories show up only on the right pages.
In order to make my Tag Cloud look like a cloud and not a list I had to change the code in my sidebar.If your tag cloud looks like a list and not a cloud it is because you have or the theme designer did make everything in your side bar a list.You could simply grab the code for the template tag for tag cloud and paste it into your sidebar.That is what I did.Then I removed the list making html.Right now I am not using the widgets until I have the time to figure it out 100%.But since it is xmas eve I am all set to cook a very large dinner and a cheesecake and I do not have the time to continue messing with the sidebar for now.