Location Weather – Hourly, Daily Weather Forecast Widget and Weather Map Plugin

Location Weather is the most powerful and easy-to-use WordPress weather forecast plugin that allows you to create and display unlimited weather and forecasts anywhere on your WordPress website. The plugin uses Open Weather Map API to retrieve weather data.

Create a weather view, pick your location, choose the weather data, and customize the look and feel with a few clicks. Embed it with the automatically generated shortcode via copy and paste anywhere in posts, pages, text widgets, or directly in your theme’s PHP files. You can show multiple different weather forecasts on the same page.

Furthermore, it offers you a wide range of robust customization features with great ease of use, making your weather forecasters more relevant to your audience and consistent with your branding and site styles.

🖥️ Live Demo | 📖 Documentation | 🛟 Support | 🛣️ Roadmap | 🏆 Upgrade To Pro!

👉 Explore More Beautiful Weather Layouts

Vertical Card | Horizontal | Tabs | Table

👉 Open Weather Map API Key 🔑

Location Weather retrieves the weather information from the Open Weather Map (OWM) website, a free and paid Weather Data and Forecast API provider. So you will need to have an account & API key to use it to avoid running into call limits. Get your free Own API key!

If you don’t have an account, follow the instructions on the plugin settings page to set up an account.

🔔 Important Note: Remember that newly created API keys will need ~ 10 minutes to be activated and show weather data, so you might see an API error in the meantime.

You can effortlessly create a Weather view, select your location, choose the data, and customize the look and feel with a few clicks. Here are the 3 (three) basic steps to create an elegant weather forecast showcase in minutes:

✅ Step 1: Get your API key for Free!

Get a Free Open Weather Map API key to access the Weather Data of your Location.

✅ 2: Create a Weather View & Configure

Simply Create a Weather View and Configure the necessary Weather data for Seamless Integration.

✅ Step 3: Publish in a Post or Page

After finalizing your Weather View, integrate it into a WordPress post or page effortlessly.

👉 Why Do You Need Location Weather?

📈 Increase Sales of Weather-Dependent Businesses

Use the weather forecast data to the prospective customers to decide when buying seasonal products or choosing a travel destination.

⏰ Real-Time Weather Information

Users or visitors can access the website’s current weather conditions, forecasts, and other weather-related information right from the website.

🏏 Better User Experience in Booking Outdoor Events

Accurate weather forecasts make it easy to find the best date for the planned event and book it without leaving your website.

🚀 Boost Website Traffic and Conversions

People often search for weather information during significant weather events. Integrating a weather widget can attract more visitors to your site.

👥 Enhanced User Engagement

Weather information can encourage visitors to spend more time on your website, increasing overall user engagement and reducing bounce rates.

🤝 Strengthen Brand Trust and Reliability

A website that offers reliable and timely weather information can build trust with its audience and is a really credible source of information.

👉 Who Should Use Location Weather on Their Website?

Weather updates can be beneficial for a wide range of businesses and websites. Here are some examples of Businesses, Industries, and Organizations that can benefit from showcasing weather updates on their websites:

• Hospitality and Tourism (Hotels, Resorts, Travel Agencies, etc.)
• Outdoor Event Planners (Concerts, Festivals, Sports Tournaments, etc.)
• Agriculture and Farming
• News and Media (Radio, TV, News Paper, etc.)
• Transportation and Logistics (Airlines, Ships, etc.)
• Weather-dependent Businesses (Ski Resorts, Boating, Beachfront Rentals, Landscaping Companies, etc.)
• Sports and Community Clubs
• Government and Municipal Websites
• Environmental Organizations
• Real Estate & Energy Companies
• Restaurants and Bars
• Healthcare Providers
• Educational Institutions (Schools, College, Universities, Training Centers)
• Retail and Online E-commerce Shop
• Personal Blogs or Any Other Business or Organization Website

🌦 Weather Information – What You Can Show

You can display Current Temperature, Current Weather Conditions, National Weather Alerts, Hourly up to 48 hours, 3 Hourly up to 120 hours, Daily up to 16 days, and much more.

• Current Temperature: Engage your website visitors by displaying a scalable current temperature on your website.

• Current Weather: Showcase real-time weather information about atmospheric conditions in a specific location. It typically includes details such as Temperature (High and Low), Humidity, Wind Speed and Direction, Precipitation, Atmospheric Pressure, etc.

• Daily Forecast (Pro): Display daily weather forecast for up to 16 days with high/low temperatures and selectable weather condition icons.

• Hourly Forecast (Pro): Display hourly weather forecast for up to 5 days with high/low temperatures and selectable weather condition icons.

• Detailed Forecast (Pro): A detailed weather forecast provides comprehensive information about expected atmospheric conditions over several days. It covers temperature ranges, precipitation probabilities, humidity, wind details, barometric pressure, UV index, sunrise & sunset times, moon phase, and hourly breakdowns throughout the day.

🗂 Beautiful Weather Layouts & Templates For A Quick Start

Weather data items can be selected and styled individually. Select your location and pick your measurement system, time format, zone, and more required options. Choose from several layouts and templates, fonts, or weather icon sets. You can customize the look and feel with a few clicks. Here are a few key features:

• Create and Display Unlimited Weather Showcases or Shortcodes Effortlessly
• 4 Exclusive Weather Layouts (Vertical Card, Horizontal, Tabs, and Table)
• 6 Vertical Card Ready to Use Templates
• 4 Horizontal Ready to Use Templates
• 2 Tabs Layouts (Pro)
• 1 Table Layout (Pro)
• 17+ Beautiful Ready Templates (Pro)
• Weather Templates Overriding or Modification to Suit Your Needs
• 10 Weather Additional Data Layouts (Pro)
• 5 Weather Additional Data List Layouts (Pro)
• 3 Weather Additional Data Grid Layouts (Pro)
• Simple and Flat Style Carousel Layouts (Pro)
• Represent Weather Additional Data in Clean, Divided, & Striped Styles (Pro)
• Weather Additional Data Carousel (Pro)
• Weather Forecast Data Carousel (Pro)
• Weather View/Shortcode Generator with Live Preview
• Location Weather View Gutenberg Block

🕹️ Weather Location – Pick a Location in Your Convenient Way

Location Weather supports over 200,000 Cities from 238+ Countries and Territories worldwide. We hope you’ll find your location. Every location on Earth is also easily selectable via latitude/longitude (coordinates).

The OpenWeatherMap can specify the worldwide location:

• City Name
• City ID
• ZIP or Postal Code
• Geo Coordinates (Latitude/Longitude)
• Auto Detect Visitor Location via IP address (Pro)
• Display Weather data From Custom Fields (Pro)
• Set a Custom Location Name that overrides the Open Weather Map Location Name
• Show/Hide Weather City/Location Name

🌡️ Measurement Unit System – Choose Your Visitor’s Preferred Weather Data Units

Temperature and other weather data are displayed in either Imperial (°F, in, mi) or Metric system (°C, mb, mm, km). Most countries use Celsius for temperature, but some still use Fahrenheit. So, use your visitors’ preferred weather data units based on their local conventions:

• Display Temperature Unit in Celsius (°C)
• Display Temperature Unit in Fahrenheit (°F)
• Degree Symbol (°) only (Pro)
• Display Temperature Unit in Both (°C & °F) (Pro)
• Auto Detect Temperature Unit (Pro)
• Precipitation Units in mm/inch (Pro)
• Display Atmospheric or Air Pressure Unit (mb, kPa, inHg, psi, mmHg/Torr, kg/cm²)
• Display Precipitation Unit in (mm, inch)
• Display Wind Speed Unit in (mph, m/s, km/h, kn)
• Display Visibility Unit (Kilometers, Miles)
• Show/Hide Current Date and Time
• Choose the Most Common Date and Time Formats
• 12 and 24-hr Time Formats
• Selectable and Customizable Current Date Formats
• Selectable Timezone to Display Local Times for Different Locations
• Selectable Open Weather API Languages (40+ languages)
• Enable/Disable Preloader

☔ Weather Forecast – Display Daily Weather Forecast for Up to 16 Days and Hourly Forecast for Up to 5 Days (PRO)🔥🔥🔥

Display accurate and detailed weather forecast updates, including hourly and daily weather forecasts of any location worldwide.

• Enable/Disable Weather Forecast
• Daily and Hourly Weather Forecast Data
• Display Daily Weather Forecast for Up to 16 Days
• Display Hourly Weather Forecast for Up to 4 Days
• 3-hour Weather Forecast for Up to 5 days (120 hrs)
• Select both Formats for Displaying Weather Forecast Data
• Forecast Days Name Length Type (Long/Short)
• Daily and hourly Toggle Button for Weather Forecast
• 5 Weather Forecast Data Condition Icon Packs (Animated, Static, Light, Fill, Glass Morphism)
• Change Weather Forecast Data Background Color
• Custom Forecast Title
• Interactive Weather Forecast Data Carousel

📴 Show/Hide Weather Data As Per Your Need

The Location Weather plugin offers you many weather additional data and useful features. Use them as per your requirements:

• Show/Hide Weather View Title
• Show/Hide Location Name
• Show/Hide Current Weather Condition Icon
• 5 Weather Condition Icon Packs (Animated, Static, Light, Fill, Glass Morphism)
• Adjustable Weather Condition Icon Color and Size
• Show/Hide Current Weather Temperature
• Show/Hide High & Low Temperature (Pro)
• Show/Hide Real Feel or Feels-like Temperature (Pro)
• Show/Hide Current Weather Condition Short Description
• Show/Hide Pressure Unit
• Show/Hide Humidity
• Show/Hide Wind Speed
• Wind Speed Indicators can Show the Direction of the Wind or the Source of Wind Flow
• Show/Hide Precipitation (Pro)
• Show/Hide Clouds
• Show/Hide Rain Chance (Pro)
• Show/Hide Snow (Pro)
• Show/Hide Wind Gust (Pro)
• Show/Hide UV Index (Pro)
• Show/Hide Dew Point (Pro)
• Show/Hide Air Quality Index – AQI (Pro)
• Show/Hide Visibility
• Show/Hide Sunrise & Sunset Time
• Show/Hide Moonrise & Moonset Time (Pro)
• Show/Hide Moon Phase (Pro)
• Show/Hide National Weather Alerts (Pro)
• Show/Hide View Detailed Weather
• Show/Hide Last Weather Update Time
• Show/Hide Weather Attribution or Copyright
• Link To Open Weather Map

🎠 Full-featured Carousel for Weather Additional Data and Forecast Data (PRO)

You can enable a beautiful Carousel for Weather Additional Data and Forecast Data to save your space and interact well. Here are key Weather Data Carousel features:

• Enable/Disable AutoPlay for Weather Additional Data Carousel
• Enable/Disable AutoPlay for Weather Forecast Data Carousel
• Set AutoPlay Delay Time
• Carousel Speed Control
• Show/Hide Navigation Icon
• Enable/Disable Infinite Loop
• Control Weather Data Columns
• Enable/Disable Stop on Hover
• Custom Navigation Icon Color & Size

See Weather Data Carousel Live Demo in Action!

🎨 Highly Customizable – Stylize Your Weather Showcase on Your Way

Weather data items can be selected and styled individually. You can display your weather however you want with our powerful styling configurator. No coding skill is required:

• 17+ Fully Customizable Templates
• Selectable Additional Data Icon Packs (Regular, Fill, Light)
• Selectable Current Weather Data Icon Packs
• Adjust the Weather Additional Data Icon Color and Size
• Horizontal and Vertical Additional Data Spacing (Pro)
• Selectable Forecast Data Icon Packs (Pro)
• Custom Animated Weather Icon Set
• Custom Overlay Color (Pro)
• Adjust the Weather-based image Overlay Color Opacity (Pro)
• Template Maximum Width Customization (Pro)
• Weather-based Image, Video (HTML5, Mp4, Webm, and Ogg & YouTube) Background (Pro)
• Set Weather-based Backgrounds or Images (Sunny, Cloudy, Drizzly, Rainy, Snowy, Stormy, and Foggy) (Pro)
• Solid Background Color
• Gradient Background Color (Pro)
• Template Content Padding
• Custom Border, Radius, BoxShadow, Spacing
• Stylize your Weather View Typography with 1500+ Google Fonts and Color (Pro)
• Footer Margin Customization

📱 Flat & Retina Responsive Design Adapts to Mobile Displays

Minimalist and flat responsive design, fully vectorial (SVG/Webfont), for a perfect display on all devices. If the weather view or showcase is in a horizontal layout, the weather showcase will reformat to a vertical format for users who visit your page on a mobile device.

🌐 We Speak Your Language

Location Weather plugin is fully localized language supported. You can easily translate with PoEdit, WPML, Polylang, Loco Translate, and more.

🧩 Seamless Integration with Your Existing Themes, Plugins, Tools, and Page Builders

Location Weather works perfectly with popular WordPress Themes, Plugins, Tools, and Page Builders.

📡 WordPress Multisite Supported

Location Weather works perfectly with WordPress Multisite, both network-activated and activated on individual websites. The automatic updates also work for Multisite as well.

📋 Additional Features:

• Location Weather Gutenberg Block
• Export and Import Weather views
• Custom CSS Field to Override Default Styles
• Compatible with all Major Web Browsers
• Online Documentation & Tutorials
• Fast and Dedicated Support
• Regular Updates and Adding New Features

🔗 Showcase – Several Live Websites

Here are the several live websites using Location Weather:

• Browse Live Website Showcases

🏆 Upgrade To Location Weather Pro!

After going through the above features list, you can probably imagine Location Weather is the best WordPress Weather Forecast plugin in the market. So, do you want to unlock the advanced features?

Upgrade To our Pro version Today! You’ll never regret it.✌️

🛟 Documentation and Support

👉 For documentation, FAQs, and Tutorials, go to our Documentation

👉 For Video Tutorials, go to our YouTube Playlist

👉 If you have any more questions, visit our support on the plugin’s Forum or Directly Contact Us to talk with our top-notch support engineers.

👉 Join Our FB Location Weather Community Group: ShapedPlugin Community

👉 To learn more about the Location Weather plugin, visit our official website at LocationWeather.io

👉 If you love the Location Weather plugin, please rate us on WordPress.org

👨‍💻 Author – Backed By A Trusted Team

Location Weather plugin is designed and developed with love by the team behind ShapedPlugin LLC, a dedicated WordPress plugin marketplace trusted by 2,88,000+ happy, active users worldwide. 🗺️🌏

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MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• PHP 5.6 or later
• MySQL 5.6 or later
• WordPress 4.7 or later

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working

AUTOMATIC INSTALLATION (EASIEST WAY)

To do an automatic install of Location Weather, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New.
In the search field type “Location Weather”. Once you have found it you can install it by simply clicking “Install Now” and then “Activate”.

MANUAL INSTALLATION

Uploading in WordPress Dashboard

• Download location-weather.zip
• Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
• Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area
• Select location-weather.zip from your computer
• Click ‘Install Now’
• Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

Using FTP

• Download location-weather.zip
• Extract the location-weather directory to your computer
• Upload the location-weather directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
• Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

You will now see the Post Carousel menu in your WordPress admin panel.

The WordPress codex contains instructions on how to install a WordPress plugin.

1. 

   Vertical Card Template

2. 

   Horizontal Template

3. 

   Weather Settings

4. 

   Display Options (General)

5. 

   Current Weather

6. 

   Additional Data

7. 

   Additional Data Style

8. 

   Forecast Data (Pro)

9. 

   Footer

10. 

    Style Options

11. 

    Typography (General)

12. 

    API Settings

13. 

    Advanced Settings

14. 

    Custom CSS

15. 

    Tools (Export and Import)

2.0.8 May 30, 2024

• Updated: The language (.pot) file.
• Fix: Some Translation string issue.
• Tested: WordPress 6.5.3 compatibility.

2.0.7 Apr 04, 2024

• Improved: The Color and Margin options are separated from the typography field.
• Improved: The help text and the options design are improved.
• Improved: Plugin menu icons are improved.
• Fix: The CLS issue for a few images due to missing width height attributes of the image tag.

2.0.6 Apr 03, 2024

• Tested: WordPress 6.5 compatibility.

2.0.5 Mar 18, 2024

• New: A function ‘sp_location_weather( x )’ was added to show weather reports using any template files.
• Improved: The style of the plugin options and help texts are improved.
• Fix: The Subscriber could see the plugin API notice and settings and tools page links.
• Tested: WordPress 6.4.3 compatibility.

2.0.4 Jan 25, 2024

• Fix: The warning was found with PHP v5.6
• Fix: The style issue of the Lite vs Pro page with WordPress v5.9.8

2.0.3 Jan 12, 2024

• Improved: The Help Page buttons.
• Fix: The review notice ajax issue.

2.0.2 Jan 08, 2024

• Improved: The Help Page has been redesigned to make it more user-friendly.
• Fix: The undefined warning after updating to the latest version.

2.0.1 Dec 07, 2023

• New: The Cache Time and Purge Cache options.
• Fix: The translation flag sign does not show in the location weather shortcode table after activation of the Polylang plugin.
• Fix: Some strings are not translatable on the help page.

2.0.0 Nov 17, 2023

• New: The Weather Layout option.
• New: 2 Pre-made Templates (Vertical Template One, Horizontal Template One).
• New: 3 Types of Additional Data Layouts were added for the Vertical Template.
• New: The option to show weather info by City ID, Zip code, and Coordinates (lat, log).
• New: The Enable Icons Animation option to show animated icons or static icons.
• New: The Humidity option.
• New: The Clouds option.
• New: Wind Gust option.
• New: The Options to show icon along with weather additional data.
• New: The Icon Type and Icon Color options.
• New: Detailed Weather link option.
• New: The Data Update Time option.
• New: The Visibility Unit option to set visibility unit.
• New: The Content Padding option.
• New: Link To OpenWeatherMap option to make clickable Weather Attribution text.
• New: The margin-top/bottom option for each element to add or reduce the gap.
• New: The Box Shadow option.
• New: Comport Weather Data (Pressure, Humidity, Wind) Position.
• Improved: Plugin UI and UX improved.
• Improved: The tooltip/help text of plugin options to make it more user-friendly.
• Improved: The color of text option moved to the Typography tab.
• Updated: The language(.pot) file.
• Fix: Some warnings were found with PHP v8.2.
• Tested: WordPress 6.4 compatibility.

1.3.11 Oct 05, 2023

• Fix: The accessibility issue of missing image alt.

1.3.10 Sep 24, 2023

• New: The loading animation during importing shortcodes.
• Fix: Some warnings found with PHP v8.1 or greater.
• Tested: WordPress 6.3.1 compatibility.

1.3.9 Jul 26, 2023

• Improved: The plugin translation functionality.
• Updated: The language (.pot) file.
• Tested: WordPress 6.3 compatibility.

1.3.8 Jul 06, 2023

• Updated: Minimum required version of WordPress for the plugin.
• Tested: WordPress 6.2.2 compatibility.

1.3.7 May 25, 2023

• Fix: The background color does not show after downgrading from the pro to free version.
• Fix: The warning found after downgrading from the pro to free version.

1.3.6 Apr 13, 2023

• New: Used transient for reducing open weather API call.
• Fix: The warning of the undefined index which was found on the deletion of the plugin.
• Tested: WordPress 6.2 compatibility.

1.3.5 Mar 02, 2023

• Fix: The CSS of Fontello icons conflict with the Fontello icons of other plugin/theme.
• Fix: The warning in Legacy Widget when no shortcode yet is created.

1.3.4 Jan 13, 2023

• Improved: Plugin security improved.
• Fix: Location time does not change in time.
• Fix: Legacy Shortcode style issue in preview of Gutenberg widget area.

1.3.3 Nov 16, 2022

• New: UTC+13 option added to the Timezone select field.
• Improved: Load dynamic style according to the shortcode on the page.
• Fix: The JS warning on click export of shortcodes on the export page.
• Tested: WordPress 6.1.1 compatibility.

1.3.2 Sept 27, 2022

• Fix: Few deprecated JS warnings on the plugin admin page.

1.3.1 Jul 19, 2022

• New: Live Preview feature.
• Updated: WP CLI check for plugin activation redirect.
• Removed: Console log found in plugin JS file.

1.3.0 May 23, 2022

• New: Elementor Addon.
• New: The export-import feature.
• New: The skipping cache option.
• New: The custom timezone option.
• Updated: The language (.pot) file.
• Fix: Gutenberg block Free to Pro compatibility.
• Fix: Deprecated warning of Gutenberg block.
• Fix: The date translation does not work if the date format is 24.
• Tested: WordPress 6.0 compatibility.

1.2.10 Apr 30, 2022

• New: Gutenberg Block to insert Location Weather shortcode.
• Updated: Add shortcode page has been redesigned.
• Fix: Country code cannot be overridden.
• Fix: Some assets of the backend are not loaded properly when that hosting directory is different.
• Removed: Unused codes from the plugin folder.

1.2.9 Jan 26, 2022

• Tested: WordPress 5.9 compatibility.

1.2.8 Jan 15, 2022

• Fix: Translation issues in a few languages (Spanish/Albanian).

1.2.7 Dec 18, 2021

• Improved: Settings page layout.

1.2.6 Nov 05, 2021

• Improved: Plugin security.
• Improved: Wrong API key error massage.

1.2.5 Jul 31, 2021

• Fix: Unable to fetch city or countries name with two words issue.

1.2.4 Jun 14, 2021

• New: Date & Time format option.
• Fix: Invalid city, country code, and spacing error issue.

1.2.3 Apr 05, 2021

• New: Shortcode onClick copy option.
• New: Language .Pot file included.
• Improved: Help page.

1.2.2 Feb 04, 2021

• Fix: Date and Time issue.

1.2.1 Jan 08, 2021

• Fix: PHP backward compatibility issue.

1.2.0 Jan 06, 2021

• New: Weather for a specific location (city & country name).
• New: Custom location name (override location name).
• New: Temperature unit (imperial-°F).
• New: Pressure unit (Mb).
• New: Wind speed unit (mph, km/p).
• New: Weather widget title and it’s the margin.
• New: Time format.
• New: Show/hide option for weather description(conditions).
• New: Show/hide option for pressure and wind.
• New: Visibility, sunrise, sunset, etc.
• New: Weather attribution.
• New: Widget text color, border, border-radius, etc.
• New: Advanced settings.
• New: Custom CSS option to override styles.
• New: Widget ready with shortcode selection.
• New: 45 Languages supported.
• Improved: Huge improvement of admin settings panel.

1.1.2 Nov 26, 2019

• Fix: WordPress 5.3 compatibility issue.

1.1.1

• Fix: Weather API issue.
• New: API key add option.
• New: Custom CSS option.

1.1

• PHP error fixed

1.0

• First Release