Your widget is ready to go! Let's try this widget we have created now:
- Save all your changes, and upload your widget to the wp-content/plugins directory.
- Go to the Plugins section and you'll see your widget waiting to be activated, as usual.
- After you click on the Activate button, you can navigate to Appearance | Widgets. You'll see the widget waiting to be added to a sidebar, as demonstrated in the following screenshot:
- Drag the widget to a sidebar, and then click on the little downward arrow to edit it. You'll see the options slide down, as shown in the following screenshot:
- You can enter a Title or leave it blank for the default, and choose the Taxonomy that you want to display.
- Then, click on Save as you would with any widget.
- When you return to the frontend of the site and reload, the new tag cloud will be right there, as shown in the following screenshot:
