A tag cloud for Elementor sized by weight — surface the topics your site actually covers, from tags or your own list.
Every section below shows one control and what it changes. Two sources, two layouts, four cloud shapes, three colour modes.
Two options do the work. Pull the terms out of WordPress, or type them in yourself.
Tags Source → Default
Reads the post_tag taxonomy live. Publish a post, the cloud updates itself. Order by most-used or least-used.
↑ 20 real tags, live from this install.
Tags Source → Custom Tags
One line, comma separated: Name|URL. Add a third field — Name|URL|weight — and the word cloud sizes by it. No taxonomy, no posts needed.
↑ 14 tags typed by hand, each linking to a blog archive.
One select box switches between them. Left is Default, right is Typography — identical tag data in both.
Style → Default
Flat HTML list. Every tag is a real link you can size, colour, round and hover.
Style → Typography
Drawn to a canvas. Word size follows how often each tag is used, so the popular ones read biggest.
Word cloud only. Identical tags in all four — only the Shape select changes.
Shape → circle
Shape → square
Shape → star
Shape → theta
Same twelve tags, three colour settings. Nothing here is CSS — it is the widget’s Normal and Hover tabs.
Background → Random
Paste a comma list of hex colours; the widget cycles them across the tags.
Background → Solid
One brand colour for every tag, with its own hover colour underneath.
Solid + border, no fill
Transparent background, 1px border, inverted on hover — the filter-rail look.
The widget does not care what the words mean — only that each one has a link. These are three example tag lists.
Blog sidebar
Editorial topics beside an article, so a reader who finished one post finds the next.
Help centre
The ten things people actually search for, each one straight into a docs page.
Shop filter
Product facets as tags — twelve materials, twelve catalogue links.
Twenty-six genres typed by hand, each with its own weight. The heavier the number, the bigger the word — canvas height, grid density, rotation, sort order and font each have their own control.
Deep House|…|112, Lo-Fi|…|104, Highlife|…|16
Point it at your taxonomy or type the list yourself, pick pills or a word cloud, then style it from the panel. No code on this page — including the grid you saw on the dark sections, which is the Grid Canvas extension.
Straight answers about what this one does, where it fits in a real build, and what it costs you to ship.
Read the documentation for this one, or write to us — a human answers inside a business day.
The Tags Cloud widget in Sky Addons for Elementor offers Default and Typography. Default renders the terms as ordinary inline links you can style as pills with padding, borders and backgrounds. Typography draws them onto a canvas as a packed, shaped cloud where each term’s size comes from its weight.
Yes. Set Tags Source to Custom and type a comma-separated list in the form Tag Name|URL|Weight. Only the name is required — a missing URL falls back to a plain anchor, and a missing weight defaults to 1. The other two sources read real WordPress terms instead.
Use values in the tens, not a 1-to-10 ranking. Weight is a magnitude on the same scale WordPress itself uses for term clouds, which runs from 12 to 120 points. Because an omitted weight defaults to 1, a hand-written list ranked one to ten renders almost invisibly in the Typography layout.
Yes — the Typography layout has a Shape control offering circle, square, star and theta. Alongside it sit a Grid density defaulting to 16, a Rotation ratio defaulting to 0.35, a font resize Factor where 0 means automatic, and a canvas minimum height that starts at 500 pixels.
Yes. In the Default style, Background Type can be set to random and fed your own comma-separated list of hex colours, or left empty to generate them. The Typography canvas has its own Color control offering random light, random dark or a gradient, plus a canvas background colour.
Yes — set Tags Source to Post and a Post Type selector appears listing the post types available on your site, so the cloud can be built from that type’s terms rather than standard blog tags. The Default source reads the site’s ordinary post tags without any extra configuration.
Clouds built from WordPress terms are capped at 45, selected by post count so the most-used topics win, with a Tags Order control for ascending or descending. A Custom list has no such cap because you type the entries yourself — though a canvas crowded past a few dozen words stops being readable.
With the Default or Post source, size follows how many posts carry each term, so genuinely popular topics dominate. The Typography layout adds a Sort control set to highest, lowest or random, which decides placement order on the canvas rather than the sizes themselves.
Only if you ask them to — an Open in New Window switch applies to the whole cloud. With the Custom source, the destination is the second field of each entry, so an outbound link list and an internal archive list are equally easy to build from the same widget.
No — it runs on the free version of Elementor, and the canvas rendering ships with the widget rather than needing a separate script or plugin. The Tags Cloud is part of the Sky Addons Pro widget set, which is a different product from Elementor Pro and does not depend on it.
