Display weather information for a specific location.
This plugin allows you to show the current weather info for any location. You can show the temperature in Celsius or Fahrenheit units, show wind speed, max & min temperature, weather description, date and weather icon.
You can use this plugin as a block (with a name “Weather Widget WP”) in the WordPress block editor in a page, post or as a widget in a sidebar, or as a shortcode – example [weather_widget_wp_location city="London" title="London, UK"]
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You can customize the weather widget however you like. The widget have two styles: minimal & expanded that show different amount of data.
When using the custom block, click the gear icon (top right) to show the settings, under Customize Style there numerous settings to style the widget in order to match your website style.
The plugin gets the weather data from Open Weather API, so you will need to have account & API key to use it. If you don’t have an account follow the instructions in the plugin settings page to setup an account.
Also, keep in mind that newly created API keys will need ~ 15 min to be activated and show data, so you might see an API error in meantime.
You can utilize the caching feature from the plugin settings page, to save (cache) the weather data for number of hours, so you don’t exceed the you API free tier rate too fast.
This is enable by default, so the weather data on the front-end might not match the back-end editor (this is because of the caching).
Setting the cache setting to 0 will disable the caching – not recommended.
Recommended use of this plugin is as a block via the WordPress block editor – for ease of use, but you can use the plugin also as a shortcode, bellow are all the shortcode attributes explained.
Example: [weather_widget_wp_location city="Santorini" title="Santorini, Greece" style="style-minimal" units="F" desc=1 icon=0]
style
– two options: ‘style-expanded’ or ‘style-minimal’, e.g. style="style-minimal"
;city
– location for which the weather data will be shown e.g city="london"
;title
– the title inside the widget e.g. title="London, UK"
;units
– temperature units, two options Celsius or Fahrenheit, e.g. units="C"
;desc
– show short weather description (1 – enable, 0 – disable), e.g. desc=0
;icon
– show weather icon (1 – enable, 0 – disable), e.g. icon=0;date
– show the current date (1 – enable, 0 – disable), e.g. date=0
;wind
– show the wind speed (1 – enable, 0 – disable), e.g. wind=0
;max
– show the max. temperature prediction (1 – enable, 0 – disable), e.g. max=0
;min
– show the min. temperature prediction (1 – enable, 0 – disable), e.g. min=0
;block_align
– alignment of the widget (left, right, center, wide, full);css_class
– add custom css class;css_style
– add custom inline style;weather-widget-wp
folder to the /wp-content/plugins/
directory;You will find Weather Widget menu in your WordPress admin screen. Click on that and add your own Open Weather API key, in order to show weather data in the widget.
It will need around 15 min for newly created api keys to show data, so you might see API error shown in the meantime, so please be patient and check again after 15 min.
The plugin only display the weather data received from the Open Weather API, we don’t know what the data is and if is correct or not.
The weather data on the front end is cached (by default) and in the back-end is not, so in rare case it might not match, that means caching works.
You can adjust the caching time via the plugin settings page, set 0 to disable it – not recommended.
This is a free plugin, so there is no active support, but your feedback – especially bug reports is welcomed.
You can submit your feedback in the plugin support forum or get in touch with the plugin author on the Ajdethemes website, any reported bug will be fixed as soon as possible.
Providing feedback is encouraged and much appreciated! You can submit your feedback either in the plugin support forum or, if you have a specific issue to report, via the Ajdethemes website.