Category Cloud Widget

Adds a sidebar widget to display the categories as a tag cloud. Based on Matt Kingston’s Weighted Categories WP plugin.

Features

Fully configuration via the Sidebar Widget admin panel.
Set the minimum and maximum font-size and unit (px, pt, %).
Exclude specific categories, (and hide empty categories).
Display categories above a defined number of posts.
Set the alignment of the text (left, right, center, justified).
Order the category cloud either alphabetically or by post-count.
Tested on both Wordpress 2.0.x and 2.1 version branches.

Demo

You can view a working demo of the Category Cloud here:
http://leekelleher.com/linklog/

Download

The latest version of the Category Cloud widget can be downloaded from the official WordPress Plugins Directory (here). Alternatively you can get a copy direct from the SVN repository (trunk).

Install

Make sure you have the Widget plugin available at http://automattic.com/code/widgets/
Copy category-cloud.php to your plugins folder, /wp-content/plugins/widgets/
Activate it through the plugin management screen.
Go to Themes->Sidebar Widgets and drag and drop the widget to wherever you want to show it.
Use the configuration menu to customise the widget.

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January 22nd, 2007 at 14:08
Jeff McNeill Says:

Aloha Lee Kelleher,

I have downloaded and installed your great category cloud widget. The only challenge i have is that the exclusion of tags doesn’t seem to work. I am using WP 2.1, perhaps that is why? I got ur code off of the SVN, and tried putting in one tag, two tags separated by commas, to no avail, all categories show up in the cloud. Any thoughts, I can try and hack around…

Cheers,
Jeff McNeill

January 30th, 2007 at 06:42
Lee Kelleher Says:

Hi Jeff,

What values are using in the ‘exclude’ field? Numerical (ID) or the category name?

Currently the ‘exclude’ field only takes the numerical values, (the database ID of the category).
I may extend the widget functionality so that you can the category names, but that wont happen for a while yet.

As for it working with WP 2.1, I’m having no problems excluding categories on this site.

I have sent you an email with further thoughts.

Regards,
- Lee

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March 2nd, 2007 at 06:16
Andy Says:

Hi Lee,

I have got your category cloud up widget up and running on my site. I like it! However, I have a question for you. Currently, I can only get the list of categories to display in a vertical list. Is it possible for me to configure it so that the list runs from left to right, more in a block than a list? Could this be something which I need to deal with on the theme side of things (Gemini-Plus-101)?

Thanks!

-Andy.

March 6th, 2007 at 11:44
Lee Kelleher Says:

Hi Andy,

Thanks for getting in contact… I’ve replied to you in more detail via email.

The issue is with the CSS of your current theme – it puts all hyperlinks in the sidebar navigation on a separate line (display:block;)

The quickest workaround to this is to add the following line to your theme’s “style.css”:

.catcloud a {display:inline!important;}

I hope that helps.

Regards,
- Lee

March 6th, 2007 at 12:02
chris rue Says:

hey lee:

been unable to get category cloud to work with sbm.

here’s the setup:
wp 2.1
sbm 1.0.7i3
cat cloud 1.1.1

installed category-cloud.php under ../wp-content/plugins/sbm/modules/
can see category cloud in the sbm module list, but cannot add it to the list of active siebar modules.

any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

all best,
chris

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March 18th, 2007 at 17:32
Guillaume Brialon Says:

Hi,
congratulations for this beautiful widget.
But since I installed it, I get this kind of error each time I submit any page in the wordpress administration :

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at …/wp-content/plugins/widgets/category-cloud.php:1) in …/wp-admin/inline-uploading.php on line 5

Could you help?

Thanx
Guillaume

March 22nd, 2007 at 02:12
Lee Kelleher Says:

Hi Guillaume,

There is an issue with version 1.2 of the Category Cloud widget… I accidentally used the wrong character-encoding when saving the PHP file. (doh!)

I’ve fixed the problem now, the latest version of the widget (version 1.3) is ready to download (and has new options).

I’ve sent you an email about this too.

Cheers,
- Lee

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April 8th, 2007 at 14:34
Jo0Lz Says:

Hello there, I would like to thank you for this great plugin!

I do, however, have one question. I have a small image, to display in front of the word TAG in the posts.
That image is 10×10 px, If I’m not mistaken. Now, I would like to put this image, in front of the widget title. But I can’t get this to work.

Can you please tell me, how I can display an image (small, or big) in front of the widget title?!

April 10th, 2007 at 13:39
Jo0Lz Says:

That’s awesome!

Thank you ever so much, for taking the time to reply, the suggestion you made, works like a charm!

I’m so happy

April 10th, 2007 at 20:29
Lee Kelleher Says:

No problem Joolz… I’m happy to help!

Just for reference, I advised Joolz to remove the ‘strip_tags‘ function from the title section of the widget code.

I may look into adding some ‘allowable_tags‘ to the widget in future, but for now it works on an ad-hoc basis.

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April 27th, 2007 at 12:08
beans Says:

Hey Lee,

This is an awesome plugin but I am having a problem with the way it displays. It will only display in a vertical list, splitting each word in a category into a separate line. Ideally, I would like it to read left to right, but would settle for vertical with the full category name on one line (i.e. “Day 1″ as opposed to “Day” and “1″ being on separate lines).

I tried to insert: .catcloud a {display:inline!important;} , into the CSS but nothing changed. Do I have a bigger theme issue that is causing the cloud to inherit this problem?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks.

April 30th, 2007 at 20:15
beans Says:

Scratch that, I figured it out. AWESOME PLUGIN!!

April 30th, 2007 at 20:16
Lee Kelleher Says:

No worries beans… I’m glad it worked out for you.

April 30th, 2007 at 20:36
mamat Says:

nice! exactly what i was looking for… thx for the work!

i had the same “exclude bug” as above, may i suggest you change the option label to something like “ids of the categories to exclude”.

thx again.

May 2nd, 2007 at 18:33
Lee Kelleher Says:

Thanks for the suggestion mamat. I’ve had a couple more people come to me with the same issue.
I’ll update the label/documentation… although I’d like to include the category names to the exclude field at some point – just trying to find the time to do it.

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May 4th, 2007 at 00:14
Dave Says:

Hi Lee,

Great work! Is it possible though to put the tag cloud on a page?

Cheers

Dave

May 8th, 2007 at 10:59
Lee Kelleher Says:

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the feedback. It is possible to use the Cloud on a WP Page, although you would need to use an additional plug-in to enable the use of PHP-code in the contents of your page/post.

The Exec-PHP plug-in would do the job:
http://wp-plugins.net/plugin/exec-php/#plugin_466

Then you could call the Category Cloud from the page using the following code:

<?php widget_catcloud( array('before_widget'=>'<div>', 'after_widget'=>'</div>', 'before_title'=>'<h2>', 'after_title'=>'</h2>') ); ?>

Drop me an email to let me know how you get on.

Cheers,
- Lee

May 8th, 2007 at 12:15
Dave Says:

Hi Lee!

Thanks for the speedy reply! I have installed as described and it works – well sort of. I do have the problem though that the tags are listed in a vertical list (as described above in an earlier post), and the solution given above doesnt appear to work, at least not for me. Any ideas? (the page I am working on is at http://www.scottversand.de/blog if you’d like to have a look)

Cheers
Dave

May 9th, 2007 at 09:16
Lee Kelleher Says:

Hi Dave,

I’ve just figured out what the problem is… a filter called “wpautop()” is being used when “the_content()” is displaying the page-content.

There are a couple of ways around this:
1. Create a page-template specifically for your Tags page. (more info here)
2. Modify the Category Cloud widget code directly; by removing the “\n” (newline) character on line 169.

Keep me posted.

Cheers,
- Lee

May 9th, 2007 at 14:00
Dave Says:

it worked! Thanks a lot for your help Lee, I will give you a mention on the page when its released
Cheers and thanks again

Dave

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May 12th, 2007 at 02:02
nick Says:

Hi, I tried to use catcloud with iTheme – and I know it’s possible because I saw it on another site – but for me it puts the cloud outside the sidebar and sends the formatting haywire. Is it something I need to play with on the theme stylesheet?

May 12th, 2007 at 20:26
nick Says:

Sorry – I figured it out – and it looks great. thanks a lot for this.

May 13th, 2007 at 02:49
beerorkid Says:

This plugin was one of the main reasons for me to choose a new theme for my site. It works flawlessly. I was wondering how hard it would be to make a blogroll cloud?

Thanks for such an amazingly functional addition to so many blogs.

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June 3rd, 2007 at 21:32
CHgirl Says:

hi, I know this sounds terribly silly, but I can’t seem to get Category cloud widget to work. I’m using Wordpress 2.1, and my theme doesn’t seem to have the sidebar widget menu. Is there a code I should be inserting somewhere, or do i have to junk the entire theme?

June 9th, 2007 at 03:06
jt Says:

How do I change font sizes for the smaller categories. It is microscopically small right now.

http://www.johnta.com/realestate/

June 12th, 2007 at 19:47
bH Says:

Hi Lee,

I’ve been using your plugin for a little over six months now on my site with no issues (though it took me a while to figure out the “exclude” thing mentioned above!). Great work! However, now that I’ve upgraded to WP 2.2, the plugin appears to be broken. It will display the categories (correctly excluding the right categories), but will not format correctly. That is, it won’t center or justify, and everything is the same size regardless of # of items. Any thoughts?

June 14th, 2007 at 04:29
Lee Kelleher Says:

@jt [resolved via email] – The minimum font-size can be set in the configuration menu for the Category Cloud widget.

@bH – I’d recommend upgrading to the latest version (1.3+) of the Category Cloud widget, as there were API code changes to how the categories are generated since WP 2.1.

June 14th, 2007 at 09:44
bH Says:

I can’t believe I missed something as simple as a version upgrade. Wow. Thanks for the help, works beautifully now (and much better thanks to the new options). Thanks again!

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June 18th, 2007 at 20:56
Fird Says:

Thanks for the wonderful plugin!

June 20th, 2007 at 06:59
David Tebbutt Says:

Call me dim if you like, but it took a while to find the configuration stuff. I could edit the PHP but that was getting me nowhere.

Here’s the (simple) answer:

Navigate to Presentation/Sidebar Widgets

Click on the little configure icon in Category Cloud

Edit options to suit

Save changes

Done

June 21st, 2007 at 14:12
vicki Says:

Hi Lee, when I installed the widgets and tried to activate the sidebar widgets, it says “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.” – any clue on that? That’s the only thing keeping me from successfully installing the category cloud. Could it be my theme?

June 23rd, 2007 at 09:40
vicki Says:

Oh nevermind I have wordpress 2.2 so it already has widgets right? But somehow when I went to my Presentation -> Widgets it says “No Sidebars Defined”, what’s the word on that? Thanks.

June 23rd, 2007 at 10:32
Lee Kelleher Says:

@Fird – Cool, really glad that you like the widget!

@David – Thanks for the info, glad it’s working now!

@vicki – If you are seeing the “No Sidebars Defined” message, you need to check if your current theme is widget-enabled. If it isn’t drop me an email (via my contact me page) and I’ll try to help you out.

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June 29th, 2007 at 08:29
heriyanto binduni Says:

hi, i use version 1.3 with wp 2.2.1 and k2, sbm enable, widget disable. can you help me, how can i use it with smb? tia.

July 4th, 2007 at 21:19
heriyanto binduni Says:

hi, just curious why it not work with my current version, so i download version 1.5 from svn and do the change on the code like below.

// Tell Dynamic Sidebar about our new widget and its control
//register_sidebar_widget('Category Cloud', 'widget_catcloud');
//register_widget_control('Category Cloud', 'widget_catcloud_control', 300, 400);

register_sidebar_widget(
array(__('Category Cloud','cc5'),'widgets'),
'widget_catcloud'
);
register_widget_control(
array(__('Category Cloud','cc5'),'widgets'),
'widget_catcloud_control'
);

}

// Delay plugin execution to ensure Dynamic Sidebar has a chance to load first
//add_action('plugins_loaded', 'widget_catcloud_init');

add_action('widgets_init', 'widget_catcloud_init');

now it work. i'm not an expert on php so if you know something better please let me know. anyway, thanks for developing this kind of application.

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Tag clouds are definitely in now. Great widget.

July 17th, 2007 at 01:16
Josh Says:

Great widget! Im having a problem styling though, how can i get the links to match my blog?

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July 18th, 2007 at 07:32
Kevin Dobo Says:

Great widget! I have a problem though. I have renamed some of my categories and after I did they disappeared from the cloud. I have checked Category Access, and any other Options I can think of. Also cleared cache in case it was a Firefox thing. Any thoughts?

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July 21st, 2007 at 17:15
daniel Says:

hi,

now you have the option in the widget to exclude certain category-id’s. Maybe another option would be to only /allow/ a certain array of categories, excluding all others. So the opposite. Im in between keywords and categories, but with this option, i might be using categories more then keywords, as categories are more into wp’s structure.

d

July 22nd, 2007 at 23:39
clive Says:

Excellent widget thanks – using on on 3 out of 4 blogs now.

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July 26th, 2007 at 18:04
pete Says:

Thanks Lee. Great widget!

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July 28th, 2007 at 11:41
Nours Says:

Hi
I’ve been using “Category Cloud Widget” on my WordPress 2.2.1 with Leai Theme (http://www.kapikua.com/index.php).
Just an issue for me : I can’t find the way to change Font Color of the tags ; I mean in wich file do I have to specify the font color (before click/after clik) ?
I suppose it’s in the style.css provided with my template but can’t find it.
Any one could help me please so I can display the color(s) I want
Regards

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August 2nd, 2007 at 23:51
Jeff Singer Says:

I’ve installed the widget and configured it the way I would like it. It looks great, but I have the sort order set to alphabetical and they are not sorting alphabetically. You can see whats going on here:
http://jeffsingerphotography.com/blog

Any ideas?

Jeff

August 5th, 2007 at 09:55
Lee Kelleher Says:

Hi Jeff,

You helped me find a bug in the alphabetical sort ordering of the Category Cloud… which I’ve now fixed.
Please download version 1.7 (or above) of the widget plugin.

(I’ve sent you an email about it too)

Thanks,
- Lee

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August 23rd, 2007 at 13:45
Mario Says:

Hi, nice plugin! Helped me to get rid of an additional tagging software just for the sake of the “must-have” tagclouds thank you, keep up the good work. – Mario

August 25th, 2007 at 00:01
Rod Says:

Nours, I have the same problem with Leai Theme

PLease help us solve the font issue at the style.css with Leai Theme. Thanks

August 29th, 2007 at 11:25
Peter Lurie Says:

I am using “Language Switcher” Plugin to toggle between 2 languages (german & english).

To do so, the Post Titles have to be formatted using square bracketed tags, for example:

[lang_de]Katze[/lang_de] [lang_en]Cat[/lang_en]

which produces Katze (in german) and Cat (when English is selected).

However, the “Category Cloud” Widget displays everything– all the tags and the alternative languages.

I had a similar issue with other plugins (Top Cat). One was was solved by the Language Switcher developer, who provided me with a complex function, to compensate for missing filters, and another Plugin developer was able to help me with that plugin.

One needs to add in filters to remove the Tags, and this I can’t do alone.

Lee… could you help me modify the Widget coding for Category Cloud so that the tags will disappear?

Many thanks
Peter

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September 4th, 2007 at 05:28
David Potter Says:

Great plugin.

I use subcategories and I’d like to be able to have parent categories include the count of their child categories like how the standard Categories widget does. I could probably eventually figure it out, but I’m new to PHP and WordPress and thought maybe you could suggest a modification much more quickly. If there are some users that don’t want this feature, maybe it could be made an option.

I had to remove the leading \n from line 167 to get categories to not be displayed on separate lines when displaying on a post. Worked like a charm. If you could make the same change to your source so that your next update includes it that would be terrific.

Thanks again.
David

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September 10th, 2007 at 19:48
JJ Says:

I know some has already asked this question but I haven’t seen a reply so I thought I would ask again. I have just installed Category cloud on my blog but I can’t seem to find the location of the link color. I would like to change the blue font color to match my own font color. Thank you for your help!

September 11th, 2007 at 22:26
SloYvHY Says:

Same ask: my background is unfortunately the same color. Very ironique.
I just wanna get white cloud.
If i find i’ll publish it.

September 23rd, 2007 at 14:21
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[...] Cloud but I went for the easy option and this morning I finally got around to installing the Lee Kelleher Category Cloud plugin.Â Within minutes I had a working clickable category cloud. I was able to do some basic [...]

September 24th, 2007 at 14:24
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[...] at the categories I have and focus them into the central themes of the page, then get rid of the category cloud widget, because that is a hack to use categories like [...]

September 25th, 2007 at 16:52
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[...] or refreshing the page. 2. Batch image upload – To upload multiple image files at a time. 3. Category cloud widget. 4. Chunk URLs – Displays only a part of lengthy URLs so the pages are not broken and look neat. 5. [...]

September 27th, 2007 at 16:57
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September 29th, 2007 at 03:34
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[...] Category Cloud Widget – An elegantly simple plugin that allows me to show my categories displayed in a sort of cloud on my sidebar. Many people display these using tags as their cloud feed. I felt that I’d have too many cloud items in there and so I opted for this instead. Maybe one day I’ll swap ‘em up but until then I have this. [...]

October 6th, 2007 at 05:42
Judex Says:

your work is awesome!
but there is a question with my install.
i cannot find the configuration menu to customize the widget.
my wordpress is v2.2.2 & the category-cloud is v1.7
thx for your help.

October 6th, 2007 at 17:29
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[...] Category Cloud Widget – Widget para mostrar la nube de categorias. [...]

October 9th, 2007 at 01:36
Daryl Says:

To change the color of the links, add something like this to your style’s style.css :

.catcloud a {
color: #333333;
}

.catcloud a:hover {
color: #000000;
}

October 17th, 2007 at 08:51
Lee Kelleher Says:

Thanks for the CSS tip Daryl – it’s much appreciated!

I am asked about that issue a lot… so I’ll add it to the FAQs in the README.txt.

Thanks again,
- Lee

October 17th, 2007 at 10:44
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[...] http://leekelleher.com/wordpress/plugins/category-cloud-widget [...]

October 21st, 2007 at 12:18
Angel Romero Says:

I really like the widget and have recently installed it, however, I am unable to modify any of the attributes of the widget. I am not sure if I can or not. The options interface seems to be ineffective. I am currently using WordPress 2.3

November 5th, 2007 at 07:22
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November 6th, 2007 at 14:05
planner Says:

Nice plugin. I have a situation in which I want to have more than one cat cloud on my pages, such that cat cloud A will show all post in a specific category (and all its sub categories), same with cat cloud B, cat cloud C, etc. Can that be achieved with this plugin.

November 21st, 2007 at 19:04
finl Says:

Yeaar, super plugin! Thanks a LOT!

November 23rd, 2007 at 07:05
ovidiu Says:

hello, could you help me modify the plugin so it displays a counter after each category? I basically want it to also show how many posts are in each category.

December 1st, 2007 at 11:18
Salem Says:

I grabbed your plugin but when in install it I see a cloud of my categories AND my tags. I only want my categories to be in the cloud. Is this possible? If so how do I make it happen.

Thanks in advance.

December 7th, 2007 at 18:53
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[...] Anzeige einer â€œtag cloudâ€ aus Kategorien Category Cloud Widget [...]

December 8th, 2007 at 16:02
Tom Says:

Great widget. Thanks!

December 11th, 2007 at 12:55
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[...] – Articles, which easily generates a list of post titles on a page (see Articles link above) – Category Cloud widget, as seen on the sidebar – cforms II, a highly advanced contact form – you can try it on the contact [...]

December 11th, 2007 at 18:16
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[...] Category Cloud Widget [...]

December 14th, 2007 at 04:11
Scouty Says:

Great plugin. I used it for my Wordpress installation. Thanks!

December 18th, 2007 at 10:33
evden eve Says:

thx for this plugin

December 25th, 2007 at 18:10
Pingback from Hello world! « Lee Kelleher’s Weblog

[...] was over on at leekelleher.com.Â I had some information about myself, a linklog and details of a WordPress plugin that I [...]

January 22nd, 2008 at 03:14
Drakqu Says:

Big thanks for plugin

January 27th, 2008 at 15:57
Steve Says:

Lee -

How would I

1. add a after the header before the 1st item and after the last item
2. remove the indent so that it’s left justified against the div

trying to align the look and feel to the same as my tag cloud – both on sidebar 2.

http://aeon.stevebuchan.org

Thoughts? ideas?

Thx

/s

April 1st, 2008 at 03:25
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[...] develop a lot of categories, having a long list gets confusing after awhile. Consider installing a category cloud widget for your category navigation; Your readers will be able to pinpoint the main themes of your blog [...]

April 3rd, 2008 at 18:37
gmcle454 Says:

After upgrading my site to wordpress 2.5 and this great widget, I get this error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare widget_catcloud_init() (previously declared in /var/www/vhosts/cheekymonkeyblog.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/widget-category-cloud/category-cloud.php:15) in /var/www/vhosts/cheekymonkeyblog.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/category-cloud.php on line 183

April 13th, 2008 at 00:38
Pingback from “Powered by Category Cloud” « Lee Kelleher’s Weblog

[...] on the developer’s blog – to which I was pleasantly surprised to find that it uses my Category Cloud widget (plug-in for WordPress). Along with a kudos-link back to my personal website. (Thanks [...]

April 24th, 2008 at 12:38
Lee Kelleher Says:

I’m closing the comments on this page. I’m getting far too much spam (which Akismet nicely catches, but it needs continual review).

If you’d like to say thanks, then feel free to use my Contact form.

If you have any bugs or other issues, raise a support ticket on WordPress.org and tag it with “widget-category-cloud“, then I can monitor the RSS feed from it.

Thanks to everyone who commented here!

May 16th, 2008 at 13:51

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