Weather Widget WP

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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 Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – example [weather_widget_wp_location city="London" title="London, UK"].

Customization

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.

API Key

The plugin gets the weather data from Open Weather API, so you will need to have account & API key to use it. If you donÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’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.

Caching

You can utilize the caching feature from the plugin settings page, to save (cache) the weather data for number of hours, so you donÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’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 Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – not recommended.

Shortcode [weather_widget_wp_location]

Recommended use of this plugin is as a block via the WordPress block editor Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – 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 Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – two options: ‘style-expanded’ or ‘style-minimal’, e.g. style="style-minimal";
• city Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – location for which the weather data will be shown e.g city="london";
• title Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – the title inside the widget e.g. title="London, UK";
• units Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – temperature units, two options Celsius or Fahrenheit, e.g. units="C";
• desc Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – show short weather description (1 Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – enable, 0 Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – disable), e.g. desc=0;
• icon Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – show weather icon (1 Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – enable, 0 Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – disable), e.g. icon=0;
• date Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – show the current date (1 Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – enable, 0 Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – disable), e.g. date=0;
• wind Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – show the wind speed (1 Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – enable, 0 Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – disable), e.g. wind=0;
• max Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – show the max. temperature prediction (1 Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – enable, 0 Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – disable), e.g. max=0;
• min Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – show the min. temperature prediction (1 Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – enable, 0 Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – disable), e.g. min=0;
• block_align Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – alignment of the widget (left, right, center, wide, full);
• css_class Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – add custom css class;
• css_style Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – add custom inline style;

Errors (API Errors)

• Most common error is the “new API key” Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – does not show any weather data and it says “Weather API Error” each new API key created will need (around) 15 minutes to be active and show data so please be patient and check again after 15 min.;
• Typo in the location input field, make sure your location is correctly written;
• It is (rare) possibility that the Open Weather API currently down;
• You have exceeded the free tier of you Open Weather account and they are rate limiting you Ìtumọ̀ Yorùbá: – this is possible if you have a huge amount of visitors to your website,
  so make sure you are utilizing the caching feature in the plugin settings page.