WP-Cumulus for Octopress, originally developed by weefselkweekje and LukeMorton for WordPress. Ported to Octopress by Joseph Chang.

Link to WP-Cumulus: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/

Description:

3D rotating tagcloud for Octopress, ported from WP-cumulus.

Installation:

The files are organized as following:

.
├── gplv3.txt
├── mit_license.txt
├── plugins
│   └── category_cloud.rb
├── README.markdown
└── source
    ├── _includes
    │   └── custom
    │       └── asides
    │           └── category_cloud.html
    └── javascripts
        └── tagcloud.swf

Only 4 steps are required when you install it:

1. Copy the plugins/category_cloud.rb to your octopress/plugins/;
2. Copy the source/_includes/custom/asides/category_cloud.html to your octopress/source/_includes/custom/asides/;
3. Add the octopress/source/_includes/custom/asides/ in Step 2 to your default_asides in your octopress/_config.yml file;
4. Copy the source/javascripts/tagcloud.swf to your source/javascripts/ folder.

After the 4 steps above, generate and preview your octopress, the cloud tags should show at your asides bar.

It is now available for Chinese tags.

Demo:

http://joseph.nlpweb.org

http://blog.ashwani.co.in

http://guori12321.github.io

Syntax:

{% category_cloud %} for default colors

OR

{% tag_cloud bgcolor:#ffffff tcolor1:#00aa00 tcolor2:#00dd00 hicolor:#ff3333 %}

Example:

In template files, add the following markups.

source/_includes/custom/asides/category_cloud.html

<section>
  <h1>Tag Cloud</h1>
    <span id="tag-cloud">{% tag_cloud bgcolor:#ffffff tcolor1:#00aa00 tcolor2:#00dd00 hicolor:#ff3333%}</span>
</section>

License:

WP-Cumulus is under GPLv3. However, original javascript and php code are not used, only tagcloud.swf is adopted. This ruby code is under MIT License.

GPLv3: http://gplv3.fsf.org MIT License: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

PS: The Chinese support is provided by http://blog.alphatr.com/wp-cumulus-cn.html.