Weather Forecast Widget

WEATHER ICONS

In the widget you´ll find awesome and beautiful weather icons. In the plugins settings page you can choose which weather icons you want to use for the widget. * Animated Icons Filled * Animated Icons Not Filled * Static Icons

LAZY LOADING

You have the possibility to load the widget with lazy loading (ajax) to load the data only when necessary.

CACHING

Nowadays caching is an important topic. This weather forecast widget makes it possible to cache the received weather data for the next visitor, who will visit your website page/post next time. You´ll be able to set your desired caching time in the settings (caching time possible up to 1 hour => this should ensure that the weather data in the widget is as current as possible). With this caching possibility you´ll also save API calls.

SHORTCODE EXAMPLES

• Retrieve weather data for a city [weather_forecast_widget city=”Kufstein”]

Retrieve weather data for a city and show city name as title text

• [weather_forecast_widget city=”Kufstein” title_cityname=”X”]

Retrieve weather data for specific coordinates

• [weather_forecast_widget lat=”47.5824″ lon=”12.1627″]

Retrieve weather data for specific coordinates and show “Weather for Weather Widget” as title text

• [weather_forecast_widget lat=”47.5824″ lon=”12.1627″ title_overwrite=”Weather for Weather Widget”]

Retrieve weather data with lazy loading and template 3 for specific coordinates and expand the hourly and daily forecast initially

• [weather_forecast_widget lazy_loading=”X” template=”3″ hourly_forecast=”show” daily_forecast=”show” lat=”47.5824″ lon=”12.1627″]

Retrieve weather alerts with lazy loading and alert template 1 for specific coordinates and expand the weather alerts initially

• [weather_forecast_widget lazy_loading=”X” template=”alert_1″ alerts=”show” lat=”47.5824″ lon=”12.1627″ max_width=”500px”]

SETTINGS

• Input box for your OPEN WEATHER MAP API key (the api key will be tested for validity while saving!)
• Dropdown box to choose if caching of the weather data is necessary and if yes, which CACHE TIME should be used.
• Media uploader/selector to choose a BACKGROUND IMAGE for the widget (optional – otherwise the page/post thumbnail will be used)
• Radiobuttons to select the WIDGET TITLE TEXT , which will be displayed in the widget. This setting will be used as a default if nothing else will be passed in the shortcode . If you´ll pass title_cityname or title_overwrite as a shortcode attribute, this attribute will be processed in the widget output.
• Dropdown to choose the POST META FIELD for the title text, if you selected the readio button “ Post Meta Field (choose one of the dropdown below) “
• Choose, which WEATHER VALUES should be shown in the widget
• Choose, which UNITS should be used to display the weather values
• Choose, which WEATHER ICONS should be used for the widget

TRANSLATIONS

• German – adminbergtourentipptirol

Credits

• Static Weather Icons provided from Erik Flowers Weather Icons
• Animated Weather Icons provided from Basmilius Weather Icons