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wp-forecast

wp-forecast is a highly customizable plugin for wordpress, showing weather-data from open-meteo.com and/or openweathermap.com.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version10.0
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 6.0 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update17 Aug 20262mo ago
Active installations4K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.2 / 5 from 23 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records wp-forecast version 10.0 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

txt file for the wp-forecast plugin.

wp-forecast is a plugin for the famous wordpress blogging package,

com.

com.

Features:

  • Displays the weather data from Open-Meteo.com and OpenWeatherMap.com

at your wordpress pages, posts or sidebar

  • Displays OpenUV.io data
  • Let you choose the
  • location (of course)
  • the time after the weather data is refreshed
  • the langugage
  • metric or american measures
  • windspeed unit
  • the forecast days
  • the forecast for up to six/seven days
  • support wordpress widgets, easy placement 🙂
  • customize the information you want to show
  • supports pull-down forecast data to efficiently use space
  • multiple wp-forecast widget support
  • integration into your site via css (see below)
  • comes with an api for wordpress-pro’s 😉

Credits:

  • Barbary Jany testing a lot and bring it to valid XHTML
  • Nike Gilhuijs,

Frans Lieshout, Wim Scholtes translation to dutch

  • Luís Reis translation to portugues
  • Håkan Carlström,

Susanne Svensso translation to swedish

  • Gabriele von der Ohe translation to german with entities (for iso-8859-1 or latin1 blogs)
  • Martin Loyer/Jean-Pierre translation to french
  • Robert Lang language file for en_US
  • Detti Giulio/Stefano Boeri translation to italian
  • Eilif Nordseth translation to norwegian
  • Michael S.R. Petersen translation to dansk
  • Jaakko Kangosjärvi translation to finish
  • Lukasz “linshi” Linhard translation to polish
  • Castmir & Alejandro translation to spanish
  • Tamas Koos translation to hungarian
  • Valeria Pellegrini translation to russian
  • Valentina Boeri translation to romanian
  • Roland Geci translation to slovak
  • Pavel Soukenik translation to czech
  • Pavel Karnaukhov translation to ukraine
  • Zoran Maric translation to serbian (latin)
  • Petar Petrov translation to bulgarian
  • Udi Burg translation to hebrew
  • Uli Kozok translation to indonesian
  • Ali Zemani translation to persian
  • Amizda Idriz translation to bosnian
  • Lovrenco Vladislavić translation to croatian
  • All the others giving feedback about missing features and bugs.

Thank you very much for your contribution to wp-forecast.

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Installation:

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Install via the WordPress plugin admin dialog (search for wp-forecast) or

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Upload to your plugins folder, usually wp-content/plugins/, keeping

e. php should end up

in wp-content/plugins/wp-forecast/ ).

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Activate the plugin on the plugin screen.

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Visit the configuration page ( Options -> WP-forecast ) to pick the

number of widgets, data to display and to change any other option.

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Visit the Themes/Widgets page to place your wp-forecast widget within

your themes sidebars or insert it manually and edit your template

file and put the wp-forecast function where you want your weather

data to show up.

Example: <ul><li>

php if(function_exists(wp_forecast)) {

wp_forecast( <widget_id> );

>

</li></ul>

You have to replace <widget_id> with the choosen widget id.

For the first widget use wp_forecast(“A”), for the second

wp_forecast(“B”) and so on.

In most cases it is advisable to put the call into a div environment.

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Optional

If you would like to have another set of icons download it

htm

and put it into the wp-content/plugins/wp-forecast/icons folder

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Optional

css

wp-forecast for outer formatting,

wp-forecast for the middle part or iconpart and

wp-forecast-details for everything below the icon

Translations

wp-forecast comes with various translations, located in the directory lang.

if you would like to add a new translation, just take the file

pot (in the wp-forecast main directory) copy it to

po and edit it to add your translations

g. with poedit).

Please be aware that the number codes stand for the weather-situations.

po. there are also

the letters N, S, W, E they stand for the winddirections and can be

translates either.

To use your own translation, a different one as the default just rename the

po and

mo

To add your translations online at the Translate WordPress project please visit

org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-forecast. This should be the prefered

way from now on.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • open meteo
  • forecast
  • 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 6.0 · PHP not listed
Update activity17 Aug 20262mo ago

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