Prompted by a forum comment by jibberjab asking how to exclude certain word/search terms from our Search Cloud plugin, I decided to do a tad of an overhaul, as the only solution was "crack open the plugin file and add <snippet> to the code" .... not exactly user friendly ... so I decided to "crack open the plugin file" and add a setting for it ....... and then I went mad and added settings for pretty much everything you could imagine.

Announcing the new and improved Search Cloud Plugin

Not content with just adding a new setting for excluding search terms, and moving pretty much every other parameter into settings as well, I widgetised it for those of you running 2.0.x, so you can have settings based on individual skins/blogs .... how cool is that ? ...... well apparently it's not cool enough .... Scott woke up .... and during one of my more lax moments , I mentioned that I'd recoded the plugin ..... never a good move

Announcing the new and improved Search Cloud Plugin

So, after the input from the grumpy bugger, and a tad more coding, we're proudly run by wordrpess .... just kidding, have you seen the code that runs a wordpress blog? ... *shudders* ..... anyway, back on track, we have a new improved, should cover all situations ( even Scott situations ) search cloud plugin ..... although some enhancements require javascript

Anyway, if you like to live on the edge, and have a spare cpu for your server, you can download a test version of the code here. I haven't updated the helpfile yet, so you'll either have to hit the plugin settings and try and work it all out, or take a look in the source for all the available shit. If you're running 2.0.x then you should also have all the settings as widget settings ( which default to the current plugin settings .... damn this all gets complicated fast ) ..... As always, this code is supplied as is, and if it melts your server then .... urm, tough

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