How to filter wp_tag_cloud’s title attribute for SEO

Posted on Jan 20, 2011 in Coding, WordPress | No Comments

The WordPress tag cloud doesn’t have very friendly linking (no no follow links) so let’s make a quick function to filter the links and replace them with something more search engine friendly.

//@author: Devin Walker
//filter the tag cloud function with SEO friendly title text
function wp_title_tag_cloud_filter($return, $tags) {
    $pattern = '/(\d+) topics/';

    echo "<ul class='wp-tag-cloud'>";
    foreach ( $tags as $key => $tag ) {
            $tag_name = $tags[ $key ]->name;
        	$tag_title = $tags[ $key ]->name. " coupons";
            $tag_link = $tags[ $key ]->link;
            $term_id = $tags[ $key ]->id;

        echo "<li><a href='".$tag_link."' title='".$tag_title."' class='tag-link-".$term_id."'>".$tag_name."</a></li>";
    }
    echo "</ul>";

}


add_filter('wp_generate_tag_cloud',
  'wp_title_tag_cloud_filter', 10, 2);

//@author: Devin Walker

//filter the tag cloud function with SEO friendly title text

function wp_title_tag_cloud_filter($return, $tags) {

$pattern = '/(\d+) topics/';

echo "<ul class='wp-tag-cloud'>";

foreach ( $tags as $key => $tag ) {

$tag_name = $tags[ $key ]->name;

$tag_title = $tags[ $key ]->name. " coupons";

$tag_link = $tags[ $key ]->link;

$term_id = $tags[ $key ]->id;

echo "<li><a href='".$tag_link."' title='".$tag_title."' class='tag-link-".$term_id."'>".$tag_name."</a></li>";

}

echo "</ul>";

}

add_filter('wp_generate_tag_cloud',

'wp_title_tag_cloud_filter', 10, 2);