Thanks for the tip Vincent. Looks like there is no way to do a random sort. Your right, any input except "results" prints in alphabetical order. Random order would be a nice option, making a better looking cloud.

Just out of curiosity, I googled word cloud images & couldn't find any that were sorted alphabetically.

Please open a ticket, might be that something got lost on the way.

"unsorted" really means the way they were found--no particular organization.

BTW, I would guess that some consideration should be made for how a "random" sort meshes with the limit parameter. Do you randomize before or after taking the limiting function? If you do it before you will get a different set of tags each time the cloud is displayed.

Looking at the `printAllTagsAs` function it seems only the sortorder "results" is checked. In that case the resutls is sorted by `arsort`. "abc" is not checked or sorted at all. All tags are fetched by `getAllTagsCount()`. So either that has been forgotten or got lost. But in any case that must be that way for years...

Interestingly the tags_extras plugin which was modeled after this does not even have a sort parameter.

in `getAllTagsCount`, you will find this code :
`$sql = "SELECT DISTINCT tags.name, tags.id, (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ".prefix('obj_to_tag')." as object WHERE object.tagid = tags.id) AS count FROM ".prefix('tags')." as tags ORDER BY 'name'" ;`

so, in `printAllTagsAs`, in all case but `$sort="results"`, tags are by alphabetical order.