How to design and display a beautiful Tag Cloud on a frontend page?

AnQiCMS is an enterprise-level content management system developed based on the Go language, which is favored by many small and medium-sized enterprises and content operation teams due to its high efficiency, customizable and easily scalable features.As an expert who has been deeply involved in website operations for many years, I am well aware of the importance of content display strategy for attracting users and enhancing SEO performance.Today, let's talk about how to design and display a beautiful and practical Tag Cloud (Tag Cloud) on the front-end page of AnQiCMS.

Unlock the vitality of content: Create a beautiful and practical tag cloud in Anqi CMS

In the age of information explosion, users often hope to quickly capture the core content and hot topics when browsing websites.Tag cloud, as a direct and visually striking form of content aggregation, just meets this need.It can not only help users quickly understand the breadth and depth of the website content, but also is the 'secret weapon' for improving website user experience and search engine optimization (SEO).

Why is the tag cloud your website's secret weapon?

An elegantly designed tag cloud that is more than just beautiful. From user experience to SEO optimization, it plays a vital role:

Firstly,Improve user experience and content discovery efficiency.When a user first visits the website, a label cloud with various sizes and colors, can instantly attract their attention.Users can clearly see the main topics and hot keywords covered by the website, thereby quickly locating the content they are interested in, greatly reducing the threshold for information filtering.This interactive visual display also makes content exploration more interesting.

Secondly,Improve the website's SEO performance.For search engines, tag clouds are an effective way to build internal link networks, enhance keyword density, and convey content importance signals to crawlers.Each tag usually links to a page that aggregates all the content under that tag, which not only increases the internal link weight of the website but also makes it easier for search engines to crawl and understand the structure of the website.At the same time, by using core keywords in the tags, it can naturally increase the frequency of these words on the website, which is very beneficial for improving the search ranking related to it.

Finally,Reveal content trends and user interests.Operators can gain insights into which topics are more popular with users and which content has a sustained vitality by observing the visual size, color, and other attributes of tags in the tag cloud (if linked to content热度).This provides valuable data support for subsequent content creation and operational strategy adjustment.

Security CMS backend tag management: the cornerstone of content

Build a tag cloud in AnQiCMS, the first step is to start with the backend content management.AnQiCMS provides a comprehensive tag management function to ensure that your tag data can be stored and called in a structured manner.

In AnQiCMS's back-end management interface, you can manage tags uniformly under the 'Content Management' section's 'Document Tags' feature. Here, you can set for each tag:

• Tag nameThis is the core text displayed on the front end label.
• Index letter: Convenient for sorting or filtering by letter.
• Custom URL：To be SEO-friendly, you can set up independent, meaningful pseudo-static URLs for tag pages, which is crucial for improving the search engine authority of tag pages.
• SEO title, keywords, descriptionThese are the customized SEO information for each tag aggregation page, which helps to improve the visibility of the tag page in search engine results.

When publishing articles or products, operation personnel can add one or more related tags to the content.This flexible association mechanism is the foundation for the dynamic display and aggregation of content in the tag cloud.Only by creating and managing tags in a standardized manner in the background and establishing a connection with specific content, can the tag cloud on the front end truly come alive.

Reveal the security CMS template tag: Get tag data

In AnQiCMS, the display of front-end content is inseparable from its powerful and easy-to-use template tag system. To display tag clouds, we mainly rely on{% tagList %}This core tag is used to retrieve tag data.

{% tagList %}Labels are used to retrieve a list of tags from the database and provide them to the template for rendering.The usage is very flexible, you can filter and limit the number and type of tags displayed according to different needs.

A typical usage is like this:

{% tagList tags with limit="50" %}
    {# 在这里循环输出标签 #}
{% endtagList %}

Here:

• tagsIt is the variable name you define for the tag list you obtain, and you can use it in the loop between{% tagList %}and{% endtagList %}.for.
• limit="50"The parameter limits the maximum number of tags to 50.This number can be adjusted according to your design requirements and the number of website tags. Too many tags may make the tag cloud too crowded, while too few may not be able to display richness.

{% tagList %}It supports other parameters, such as:

• itemIdIf you want to display related tags to the current article on a specific article page, you can use this parameter (it will usually automatically read the current article ID).
• letter：Press the specified index letter to filter tags.
• categoryId：Filter tags under a specific category.

In{% tagList %}Inside the loop body of tags, each tag item (for example, as shown in the above example,itemAll of them include the following common fields that you can call in the template:

• item.TitleThe display name of the tag.
• item.LinkThe URL of the tag aggregation page, which the user will be redirected to upon clicking.
• item.DescriptionEnglish: Label description information (if you have filled it in the background).
• item.FirstLetterEnglish: Label index letter.

With these data, we can start designing the visual presentation of the tag cloud.

Create a visual feast: Design beautiful tag clouds

The aesthetics of tag clouds often manifest in their visual diversity and dynamics.In AnQiCMS, we can easily achieve this goal by combining template tags and CSS styles.

Step 1: Build the basic HTML structure

We first need a container to wrap all the tags, usually adivElement, internally it is a series of linksaTag, eachaTag represents a tag:

<div class="tag-cloud-container">
    {% tagList tags with limit="50" %}
        {% for item in tags %}
            <a href="{{ item.Link }}" title="{{ item.Title }}" class="tag-item tag-size-{{ forloop.Counter % 5 }} tag-color-{{ forloop.Counter % 3 }}">
                {{ item.Title }}
            </a>
        {% empty %}
            <p>暂时没有可显示的标签。</p>
        {% endfor %}
    {% endtagList %}
</div>

In this structure, I cleverly make use offorloop.Counter(loop counter) and the modulus operator (%)，for each label a different CSS class name is dynamically generated. For example,tag-size-{{ forloop.Counter % 5 }}will depend on