Broken Tag Cloud
I noticed this morning that the tag cloud on my blog’s home page was only three lines long. That’s not right. A little study showed that the three lines were word-wrapping based on spaces within individual tags, and that there was no space between the tags, causing them to run off the right side of the pages, where the overflow was hidden. I poked around a couple of places looking for changes to the code that could have caused this: both the WooTheme’s Canvas theme I’m using and the WooDojo add-on only specify the minimum and maximum font sizes, leaving the default ‘separator’ parameter value. The tag cloud is built up in the wp-includes/category-template.php file, where the default is rather strangely set as “\n” as documented on the WordPress site. Adding an explicit parameter of separator to the Woo elements didn’t seem to have an effect. As a temporary fix to confirm I’m on the right track, I overrode the defaul in the wp-includes file to “·” and the word-wrap problem is gone. Next, I’ll see if I can find some other place within the Admin UI and/or the database where the separator is specified and see if I can get it reset properly. Stay tuned.