Active installations10Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating2.5 / 5 from 2 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org
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WP PlugIndex currently records PDS Weather version 4.5.3 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
PDS Weather shows current conditions in your area using the OpenWeatherMap API (free tier).
The plugin fetches and displays:
Current weather description
Current temperature (°C and/or °F)
“Feels like” temperature
Weather font icon (optional)
City name display (optional)
Air Quality Index (optional)
UV Index (optional)
Data is cached for one hour to minimize API calls.
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Manual colour mode — choose Auto (follows the visitor’s browser/system preference, as before), Always light, or Always dark under PDS Weather > Appearance. Useful when Auto dark mode doesn’t match your site’s own (always-light or always-dark) design.
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Automatic Dark Mode — the widget adapts to the visitor’s browser colour-scheme preference (with an OS-preference fallback when JavaScript is disabled). No configuration required.
Air Quality Index — optionally display the Air Quality Index from the OpenWeatherMap Air Pollution API (e.g. “Air Quality: 2 (Fair)”).
UV Index — optionally display the UV Index value (e.g. “UV Index: 5.2”).
Custom CSS editor — a new Appearance tab lets you add your own CSS to style the widget without editing plugin files.
Requirements:
A free OpenWeatherMap API key — Get one here
Setup:
Go to PDS Weather > Settings in your WordPress admin.
Use the PDS Weather Gutenberg block in the Block Editor.
Use the PDS Weather classic widget (Appearance > Widgets).
Use the [pdsweather] shortcode in any post or page.
Or call <?php echo pdsweather_display();?> in your theme template.
Legacy function pdsWeather() is still supported for backward compatibility.
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
current conditions
openweathermap
weather
widget
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.5 · PHP 7.4
Update activity19 Aug 20262mo ago
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