diff --git a/include/functions_tag.inc.php b/include/functions_tag.inc.php
index 90734c321..00579f578 100644
--- a/include/functions_tag.inc.php
+++ b/include/functions_tag.inc.php
@@ -308,4 +308,18 @@ SELECT *
   return query2array($query);
 }
 
+function tags_id_compare($a, $b)
+{
+  return ($a['id'] < $b['id']) ? -1 : 1;
+}
+
+function tags_counter_compare($a, $b)
+{
+  if ($a['counter'] == $b['counter'])
+  {
+    return tags_id_compare($a, $b);
+  }
+
+  return ($a['counter'] < $b['counter']) ? +1 : -1;
+}
 ?>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/include/menubar.inc.php b/include/menubar.inc.php
index fdb106b45..7cb65c3e5 100644
--- a/include/menubar.inc.php
+++ b/include/menubar.inc.php
@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ function initialize_menu()
     else if ($conf['menubar_tag_cloud_content'] == 'always_all' or ($conf['menubar_tag_cloud_content'] == 'all_or_current' and empty($page['items'])) )
     {
       $tags = get_available_tags();
+      usort($tags, 'tags_counter_compare');
+      $tags = array_slice($tags, 0, $conf['menubar_tag_cloud_items_number']);
       foreach ($tags as $tag)
       {
         $block->data[] = array_merge(
diff --git a/tags.php b/tags.php
index 93f7150f4..4ae3885e0 100644
--- a/tags.php
+++ b/tags.php
@@ -6,25 +6,6 @@
 // | file that was distributed with this source code.                      |
 // +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
 
-// +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-// |                             functions                                 |
-// +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
-
-function counter_compare($a, $b)
-{
-  if ($a['counter'] == $b['counter'])
-  {
-    return id_compare($a, $b);
-  }
-
-  return ($a['counter'] < $b['counter']) ? +1 : -1;
-}
-
-function id_compare($a, $b)
-{
-  return ($a['id'] < $b['id']) ? -1 : 1;
-}
-
 // +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
 // |                           initialization                              |
 // +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
@@ -145,7 +126,7 @@ else
 
   // we want only the first most represented tags, so we sort them by counter
   // and take the first tags
-  usort($tags, 'counter_compare');
+  usort($tags, 'tags_counter_compare');
   $tags = array_slice($tags, 0, $conf['full_tag_cloud_items_number']);
 
   // depending on its counter and the other tags counter, each tag has a level