Weather Widget One

Weather Widget One is a WordPress plugin for displaying weather conditions and forecast for places across the world.

Features

• Geocode auto-complete list for cities and countries
• Responsive (* min-width 250 pixels)
• Auto Detect user location through HTML5 Geolocation
• Search location weather by US, UK, Canada Postalcode, Latitude/Longitude and city name
• 5 Days forecast with 24h forecast foreach day
• Displays temperature (F, C), wind (KPH, MPH, M/S), humidity ( % ) and rain chance ( % )
• jQuery, AJAX, cURL, JSON, Cache

Requirements

• Your theme must support ajax calls.
• cURL or file_get_contents enabled.
• forecast.io API key (you can obtain one for free at https://developer.forecast.io/register )
• geonames.org username (you can obtain one for free at https://www.geonames.org/login ) NOTE: After registration enable it on your account page: https://www.geonames.org/manageaccount
• Write permission for storing weather cache data (cache files are stored in wp-contentspluginsweather-widget-oneajaxcache)

Installation

• Go to Dashboard -> Plugin -> Add New -> Upload plugins -> Browse
• Pick Weather Widget One zip archive and click “Install Now”
• After installation click “Activate Plugin”
• New menu should appear named “Weather Widget One”

Setting up

• Go to Dashboard -> General Settings
• Place your forecast.io API key in “API Key” field (you can obtain one for free at https://developer.forecast.io/register)
• Place your geonames.org username in Active “www.geonames.org Username” field (you can obtain one for free at https://www.geonames.org/login)
• Adjust the other settings by your preference.
• Click “Save Settings”

Displaying plugin on the front-end

• Go to Dashboard -> Shortcode
• Adjust the settings by your preference.
• Click “Save & Refresh Shortcode”
• Copy everything inside “Generated Shortcode” field. This is your shortcode.
• Place the shortcode inside WordPress Post or Page.

• NOTE: If you want to display the plugin as a widget go to Dashboard -> Appearance -> Widgets -> Weather Widget One and paste your shortcode in “Paste shortcode here:” field.

Change log

• 18 May 2016 Version 2.3
  – Bug fix where widget was showing day icon during night
  – Plugin will now search for nearby city/town when given Lng & Lat coordinates
  – Chart.js updated to version 2.1.3
  – Plugin inits on document ready instead of window load now.
  – Removed scripts: Masonry, no longer needed, jQuery Easing, no longer needed, jQuery UI Autocomplete, no longer needed

• 30 April 2016

– Bug fixes where widget sometimes fail to return weather data.

Version 2.0

Weather API has been changed to forecast.io since the old one became paid for new users.