• Hello,
    I am wondering it is possible to show a dropdown list populated by post tags, that loads a selection of posts on the same page, without taking the user to a new page. Currently I am trying this (taken from wphacks):

    Located in functions.php

    function dropdown_tag_cloud( $args = '' ) {
    $defaults = array(
    'smallest' => 8, 'largest' => 22, 'unit' => 'pt', 'number' => 45,
    'format' => 'flat', 'orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC',
    'exclude' => '', 'include' => ''
    );
    $args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
    
    $tags = get_tags( array_merge($args, array('orderby' => 'count', 'order' => 'DESC')) ); // Always query top tags
    
    if ( empty($tags) )
    return;
    
    $return = dropdown_generate_tag_cloud( $tags, $args ); // Here's where those top tags get sorted according to $args
    if ( is_wp_error( $return ) )
    return false;
    else
    echo apply_filters( 'dropdown_tag_cloud', $return, $args );
    }
    
    function dropdown_generate_tag_cloud( $tags, $args = '' ) {
    global $wp_rewrite;
    $defaults = array(
    'smallest' => 8, 'largest' => 22, 'unit' => 'pt', 'number' => 45,
    'format' => 'flat', 'orderby' => 'name', 'order' => 'ASC'
    );
    $args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
    extract($args);
    
    if ( !$tags )
    return;
    $counts = $tag_links = array();
    foreach ( (array) $tags as $tag ) {
    $counts[$tag->name] = $tag->count;
    $tag_links[$tag->name] = get_tag_link( $tag->term_id );
    if ( is_wp_error( $tag_links[$tag->name] ) )
    return $tag_links[$tag->name];
    $tag_ids[$tag->name] = $tag->term_id;
    }
    
    $min_count = min($counts);
    $spread = max($counts) - $min_count;
    if ( $spread <= 0 )
    $spread = 1;
    $font_spread = $largest - $smallest;
    if ( $font_spread <= 0 )
    $font_spread = 1;
    $font_step = $font_spread / $spread;
    
    // SQL cannot save you; this is a second (potentially different) sort on a subset of data.
    if ( 'name' == $orderby )
    uksort($counts, 'strnatcasecmp');
    else
    asort($counts);
    
    if ( 'DESC' == $order )
    $counts = array_reverse( $counts, true );
    
    $a = array();
    
    $rel = ( is_object($wp_rewrite) && $wp_rewrite->using_permalinks() ) ? ' rel="tag"' : '';
    
    foreach ( $counts as $tag => $count ) {
    $tag_id = $tag_ids[$tag];
    $tag_link = clean_url($tag_links[$tag]);
    $tag = str_replace(' ', ' ', wp_specialchars( $tag ));
    $a[] = "\t<option value='$tag_link'>$tag ($count)</option>";
    }
    
    switch ( $format ) :
    case 'array' :
    $return =& $a;
    break;
    case 'list' :
    $return = "<ul class='wp-tag-cloud'>\n\t
    ";
    $return .= join("
    \n\t
    ", $a);
    $return .= "
    \n\n";
    break;
    default :
    $return = join("\n", $a);
    break;
    endswitch;
    
    return apply_filters( 'dropdown_generate_tag_cloud', $return, $tags, $args );
    }

    With this code in the template file:

    <select name="tag-dropdown" onchange="document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;">
    <option value="#">Tags</option>
    <?php dropdown_tag_cloud('number=0&order=asc'); ?>
    </select>

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