wp-forecast

Description

You are reading the readme.txt file for the wp-forecast plugin.
wp-forecast is a plugin for the famous wordpress blogging package,
showing the weather-data from open-meteo.com and/or openweathermap.com.
please also refer to the terms of usage of open-meteo.com and/or openweathermap.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
• Frans Lieshout
  Wim Scholtes translation to dutch
• Luís Reis translation to portugues
• H?kan Carlstr?m,
  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 Kangosj?rvi 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 Vladislavi? translation to croatian

• All the others giving feedback about missing features and bugs.
  Thank you very much for your contribution to wp-forecast.

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
wp-forecast.pot (in the wp-forecast main directory) copy it to
wp-forecast_-.po and edit it to add your translations
(e.g. with poedit).

Please be aware that the number codes stand for the weather-situations.
you can see the mapping in wp-forecast-en_US-en_US.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
appropriate file wp-forecast_-.po and
wp-forecast_-.mo

To add your translations online at the Translate WordPress project please visit
https://translate.www.ads-software.com/projects/wp-plugins/wp-forecast. This should be the prefered
way from now on.

Screenshots

Installation

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

2. Upload to your plugins folder, usually wp-content/plugins/, keeping
   the directory structure intact (i.e. wp-forecast.php should end up
   in wp-content/plugins/wp-forecast/).

3. Activate the plugin on the plugin screen.

4. Visit the configuration page (Options -> WP-forecast) to pick the
   number of widgets, data to display and to change any other option.

5. 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.

6. Optional
   If you would like to have another set of icons download it
   from https://accunet.accuweather.com/wx/accunet/graphics_icons.htm
   and put it into the wp-content/plugins/wp-forecast/icons folder

7. Optional
   If you would like to change the style, just edit wp-forecast.css
   there are three classes div.wp-forecast for outer formatting,
   table.wp-forecast for the middle part or iconpart and
   wp-forecast-details for everything below the icon

FAQ

Where can I get further information about the plugin?

There are severeal ressources to visit:

• The german wp-forecast page
• The german reference
• A short FAQ list in german
• A checklist in case of problems (german and english)
• The english readme.txt
• The english reference (a bit out of date but still useful)

After upgrading the plugin my widgets are gone. Any Ideas?

Probably you used the automatic upgrade which disables the widget during update and sometimes removes the configured widgets. Just add the widgets again.

After upgrading my settings are gone. How can this be?

Probably you have enabled “Delete options during plugin deactivation?” and used automatically update or disabled the plugin during update. When this option is marked everey database entries inserted by wp-forecast are removed from the database.

Reviews

Doesn’t Work, No Support

retrojimmy March 1, 2024

The plugin doesn’t work for me and I posted in the support forum a few days ago and looking through the unsanswered posts there, suggests there is no support for plugin so lowest rating sadly.

Very good – best weather plugin

kugae February 25, 2024

The plugin offers many and simple configuration options and does everything you need for the current weather and a forecast over several days – and all without high monthly or annual costs. Simply great.

Great Plugin

oyondo November 29, 2022

Very nice and useful Plugin. Easy to customize and works well with openweathermap API Key. The use of expensive ipstack API for Geolocation is not necessary. Customizing CSS in Child Themes CSS works also well. But one thing to mention, when you’re using PHP 8.0 or grater, the API with openweather did not deliver data.

Very very very fustrating

alexx1980 October 3, 2022 1 reply

I’m struggling to change some CSS rules. In wp-content/plugins/wp-forecast/wp-forecast-default.css I make the headers larger and the space between the day blocks larger, it works when I change it live on the browser but it doesn’t when the page is loading again, still works with the old values. I’m using WPRocket, so I cleared countless times the cache, cleared every possible cache on browsers, deactivated and activated the plugin, erased the plugin, and installed it again….still has the same fucking old values! The page source code shows that the domain.com/el/wp-content/plugins/wp-forecast/wp-forecast-default.css?ver=9999 is loading, and the file has good large values, but every browser insists to show the old ones. I spent 4 hours of my precious time without any results. It’s the first time after months that I feel exasperated! I give it 1 star because there isn’t any lower.

Wrong location

RIMAX March 17, 2022

Even though I have Use visitors location checked, it still defaults to Frankfurt. Now it stopped working completely. Useless.

Works very well with OpenWeatherMap

s.axel June 28, 2021

Great support by mail and good updates! AccuWeather stopped sending new data and quickly after, OpenWeathermap was added. So using my OpenWeathermap API it works perfectly again.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

v9.5 (2024-10-28)

• added missing UV icon 5
• fixed typo in License tag
• fixed conversion of precipitation forecast data

v9.4 (2024-04-05)

• added hint to OneCall API
• tested with WP 6.5

v9.3 (2024-02-26)

• fixed possibility of XSS from within WordPress with role contributor and up

v9.2 (2023-11-26)

• add two filters to change the weather data if wanted wp-forecast-openweathermap-data and wp-forecast-open-meteo-data
• fixed widget with location selection (some attributes were removed for security reasons)
• fixed label typo in admin dialog
• removed some index warnings during widget preview call

v9.1 (2023-09-20)

• added weather description from Open-Meteo and OpenWeatherMap instead of old Accuweather descriptions
• removed old accuweather translations
• completed OpenMeteo translations
• fixed some typos
• avoid warning if translation is missing
• fixed activation error in some constellations
• fixed saving setup on Multisite
• Echo received message in connectiontest

v9.0 (2023-09-18)

• fixed apparent temperature bug in Open-Meteo data
• added support for Fahrenheit for Open-Meteo
• get more precise UV index for Open-Meteo
• updated some documentation
• fixed typos in english translation
• fixed unescaped quotes in search results (e.g. O’Hare Airport)
• sunset and sunrise are now formatted from blog time format

v8.9 (2023-09-15)

• fixed bug with use visitor ip for location and OpenMeteo
• fixed timezone shift on some sunset/sunrise times
• adopted connection test for Open-Meteo.
• completed german translation

v8.8 (2023-09-13)

• added support for OpenMeteo as an alternative to accuweather
• add admin notice for the accuweather problem
• added OpenMeteo to asset banner

v8.7 (2023-01-20)

• updated widget translations

v8.6 (2023-01-13)

• added handling for empty timezone setting for OpenWeatherMap
• corrected typo in german translation
• removed DarkSky service because it is terminated
• added support for OpenWeatherMap new API v3 service
• removed hint for ending DarkSky service

v8.5 (2022-10-13)

• fixed html incompatibility with some themes

v8.4 (2022-09-19)

• fixed pulldown issue when called as shortcode
• fixed undefined id in shortcodes.php
• fixed some warnings about undefined indices

v8.3 (2022-09-16)

• fixed widget output concerning filtering

v8.2 (2022-09-13)

• fixed loading shortcode css correct
• fixed pulldown anchors in special constellations

v8.1 (2022-09-12)

• enhanced OpenUV error handling

v8.0 (2022-09-08)

• fixed check connection test with new modal dialog

v7.9 (2022-09-07)

• added local translation for multi language sites
• eliminated extract calls for security
• fixed minor WordPress standard issues

v7.8 (2022-09-04)

• fixed shortcode call

v7.7 (2022-09-03)

• removed support for WordPress multisite admin settings
• fixed various PHP Sniffer errors and warnings
• redesigned admin dialog for connection test (ajax)
• redesigned admin dialog for location search (ajax)
• fixed special problem with some even more special precipitation values from the weatherprovider

v7.6 (2022-08-27)

• completed sanitize vars in admin dialog and update nonces
• extended connection test for OpenWeatherMap
• added some missing translations

v7.5 (2022-02-08)

• fixed warning in admin dialog when QUERY_STRING is not set

v7.4 (2021-10-19)

• fixed current precipitation for 1h

v7.3 (2021-10-16)

• added support for precipitation with OpenWeathermap.org

v7.2 (2021-06-14)

• fixed some warning of undefined indexes
• added OpenWeathermap weather data provider since accuweather does not send correct forecast data anymore
• added admin hint about weatherservice changes
• fixed wind direction mapping

v7.1 (2021-04-07)

• fixed refresh of weather data on WP ajax call
• added support for svg icons
• fixed call of round function for PHP8

v7.0 (2020-09-16)

• fixed curly brackets syntax in funclib
• fixed date_i18n timezone issue by replacing it with php date function

v6.9 (2020-06-01)

• fixed link to accuweather weathersite for locations in the US

v6.8 (2020-05-20)

• fixed WPLANG warning

v6.7 (2020-01-25)

• fixed timezone with sunrise and sunset from DarkSky
• fixed shift of conditions for different timezones
• fixed decimals for DarkSky night temepratures

v6.6 (2019-11-25)

• fixed some conditions or to ||
• open lat and lon for DarkSky locations withour giving a location
• removed old WeatherBug error message

v6.5 (2019-11-16)

• added some css classes for DarkSky
• round some values from DarkSky (e.g. degrees)

v6.4 (2019-11-10)

• removed support for WeatherBug since the free API was discontinued
• added support for DarkSky weather API
• fixed some notices
• removed old fashioned debugging aid

v6.3 (2019-10-20)

• fixed some more undefined index Notices

v6.2 (2019-09-12)

• fixed language override parameter for shortcode
• fixed some undefined index Notices

v6.1 (2019-01-19)

• added option to disable load of default CSS rules
• removed some PHP notices

v6.0 (2018-10-26)

• added interface to data from OpenUV.io to show detailed UV data
• added interface to ipstack.com for getting the visitors location for displaying the weather
• reordered the admin dialog
• added new widget showing data from OpenUV.com
• added UV icons, thanks to Lars

v5.9 (2018-08-12)

• javascript for ajax like call is only loaded when needed now
• updated spanish translation, thanks to Alejandro

v5.8 (2018-02-17)

• removed deprecated function call for PHP7

v5.7 (2017-09-23)

• added PHP7 compatibility

v5.6 (2017-08-27)

• tested with WordPress 4.8.1
• fixed some descriptions
• removed older files from package
• fixed a network bug which occurs sometimes
• reduces max numer of widgets to 8 avoiding heavy loading on some sites

v5.5 (2015-08-25)

• fixed deprecated constructor call for WP_Widget which leads to problems with some PHP Versions

v5.4 (2015-02-14)

• error handling if no icon code found in weather data
• updated french translation
• switched to new accuweather server

v5.3 (2015-02-11)

• error handling if no icon code found in weather data

v5.2 (2015-02-08)

• updated italian translation Thanks to Peter P.
• fixed some php warnings
• fixed dutch translation

v5.1 (2014-10-24)

• support for using shortcode in normal textwidget
• update croatian translation Thanks to Stjepan

v5.0 (2014-07-29)

• made the css a bit more responsive
• added croatian language (Thanks to Lovrenco)

v4.9 (2014-05-04)

• added contextual help and support email in admin dialog
• removed unused code (was commented since v3.x)
• removed old langauge files

v4.8 (2014-01-30)

• add updated hebrew translation
• optimized default icons with opt-gif and opt-png
• added css sprites feature for accuweather icons (experimental)
• fixed problem with dutch language and wind icons
• adopted default css to Twenty Fourteen
• added new accesspoint to access accuweather location search

v4.7 (2013-10-21)

• add updated czech translation. Thanks to eldenroot
• added update greek translation. Thanks to Nikos
• added a wind direction indicator

v4.6 (2013-10-13)

• fixed css output with wp_enqueue_script
• disabled service for google weather because google closed the api
• added uv-index to the accuweather data fields

v4.5 (2013-05-07)

• added serbian language (Thanks to Amizda Idriz)
• fixed langauge codes in language selection dialog

v4.4 (2013-02-03)

• fixed some php warnings
• added persian translation (Thanks to Ali Zemani)
• fixed language code in iframe header

v4.3 (2012-12-24)

• added new hebrew translation by Udi ??
• added new greek translation by Nikos ??
• added updated serbian translation by Zoran ??
• fixed search dialog for some special accuweather responses

v4.2 (2012-10-23)

• changed global variable name for xml parsing to prevent collision
• added width and height attributes to img tags for better performance
• fixed HTML warning in admin dialog
• fixed problem with plugin_locale filter
• fixed problem with webservers which do not decompress automatically
• added indonesian language thanks to Uli

v4.1 (2012-08-03)

• fix admin dialog, it was not possible to save the WeatherBug Partner-ID
• only include javascript for multi widget in frontend
• changed translation loading from load_textdomain to load_plugin_textdomain
• fixed a problem with search dialog and individual wp-content folder

v4.0 (2012-06-10)

• support individual wp-content folder
• added hebrew translation from Udi Burg

v3.9 (2012-05-26)

• fixed a bug with new search dialog and multiwidgets
• fixed some php notices
• fixed weather provider switch in admin dialog
• check for apikey in search dialog for weatherbug

v3.8 (2012-02-05)

• fixed a special data constellation returned by accuweather for the pressure
• changed js loading to load thickbox only in admin dialog
• changed search dialog to an ajax like replacement
• redesigned the admin dialog a bit more convenient
• fixed an url problem in connection check

v3.7 (2011-12-21)

• fixed include of wordpress specific vars (wp-config.php, wp-load.php) to support secure setting
• various html5 validity fixes
• calculate copyright year automatically

v3.6 (2011-07-06)

• changed accuweather copyright notice to 2011
• removed use of HttpExt class for transport, since it was removed from wordpress 3.2

v3.5 (2011-04-21)

• added updated finish translation from Jaakko
• selection widget now accepts language_override to set langauge different from default

v3.4 (2011-03-13)

• added updated dansk translation (thanks to Michael S.R. Petersen)
• fixed a problem with wp 3.1 in network mode, due to a different search path th
  e wrong setup.php was included

v3.3 (2010-11-02)

• moved enqueue script to init hook where it should be to avoid conflicts with other plugins
• added bulgarian translation
• if you return to a wp-forecast site which uses selection widget, your selected location will be remembered and automatically displayed when you return (uses cookies)

v3.2 (2010-10-01)

• fixed duplicate id in selection widget

v3.1 (2010-08-02)

• fixed several bugs when using presettings in multiusermode
• added support for GoogleWeather API
• added serbian latin translation (thanks to Zoran)
• fixed year in copyright notice
• update accuweather servicelink to new server
• fixed translation for superadmin dialog on multisites
• added colored checkboxes to superadmin dialog
• removed examples folder from package

v3.0 (2010-05-15)

• timeoffset is now considered for current time too
• added support for wpmu (maintain settings on a per blog base, support for wpmu admin plugin)
• updated dansk translation
• fixed handling of country specific characters in accuweather data
• added “Less…” link at the top (pull down widget)
• updated swedish translation
• added css class for iframe tag for shortcodes

v2.9 (2010-02-19)

• fixed an javascript, jquery incompatibility with ie6, ie7, ie8 concerning the selection dialog widget

v2.8 (2010-01-30)

• prevent wp-forecast-nowp.css from being deleted during automatic plugin update
• added beaufort to set of windunits
• updated dutch translation, thanks to Wim ??
• fixed warning during autoupdate with wordpress >Version 2.8.6
• rounded pressure to get rid of long values

v2.7 (2010-01-22)

• added unit label to timeoffset field in admindialog
• added selection dialog widget to let user choose which location to view
• extended pulldown widget to use more than one pulldown widget per page
• prevent wp-forecast.css from being deleted during automatic plugin update

v2.6 (2009-12-17)

• fixed wrong urlencoded link to weather forecast at accuweather
• fixed undefined variable warning for $wp_forecast_pre_transport in wp-forecast.php
• fixed uncompress bug in wordpress 2.9 with workaround in fetch_url
• fixed invalid xhtml/javascript in admin dialog once more
• added open in new window feature for weather provider link
• added time offset to correct wrong calculated accuweather times

v2.5 (2009-10-17)

• fixed wrong html in widget dialog with wordpress v2.8, that leads to problems with placing widgets in internet explorer
• set default for widget call via v2.8.1 widgetdialog
• replaced “Copyright” with ©
• added parameters width and height to shortcode
• added feature to show/hide forecast data with javascript
• added transport check to admin dialog

v2.4 (2009-07-04)

• changed readme to support new changelog feature at www.ads-software.com
• fixed faq section in readme, resized icon
• added default css file which is used when no user specific one is available
• fixed div container when date/time is disabled
• fixed widget title to be display correct

v2.4beta (2009-06-18)

• fixed translation of winddirection in api
• added translation for romanian
• fixed russian and italian translation
• modified show function to use data api
• avoid to store new cache when http fetch results in failure notice from acuweather
• add support for weatherbug
• reduced the number of database reads and writes and raise performance
• changed the xhtml using only div and not table or others
• added shortcode wpforecast
• catch error when weather bug does not deliver a shorttext
• since it leads to problems with some installations
• added menu icon
• moved settings to main menu
• switched the widget dialog to new oo-progamming for versions after 2.7.1
• added a preselection of the transfer method to be used with wp-forecast

v2.3 (2009-01-30)

• fixed some wrong italian translations
• added shorttext for api daily forecast
• fixed translation in api
• process failure notice from accuweather if it occures
• added lat and lon to data api
• switched to wordpress default function to get remote data from accuweather
• changed default value of cache refresh to 1800 seconds
• added translation to russian

v2.2 (2008-12-29)

• fixed some mistakes in finish translation (thanks to Jaska)
• added hungarian translation
• added parameter to avoid option deletion when deactivating the plugin
• added parameter for direct call to add a html-header
• added multi-checkbox-switch in admin-dialog (for convenience only)
• added translation for winddirections
• added data api for wordpress-pro’s to design layouts individually

v2.1 (2008-11-09)

• added language support for spanish (thanks to Castmir) and
• polish (thanks to Lukasz)
• fixed minor css bug

v2.0 (2008-11-02)

• added finish translation (thanks to Jaska)
• fixed a problem with overloaded textdomains (translations)
• since wordpress does not a sanity check if a loaded domain is reloaded, we have to do it

v1.9 (2008-10-04)

• surpress fsockopen warning messages in case of connection problems and output the error as html comment

v1.8 (2008-09-17)

• added css class wpf-icon to make it easier formating the weather icons
• added autodetection for icon filetype
• gif, png and jpg are supported
• corrected some translations

v1.7 (2008-07-20)

• removed a bit of redundant html when widget title is empty
• fixed bug in output of current conditions
• added option to show a link to the accuweather forecast
• added dansk translation

v1.6 (2008-07-11)

• removed some hardcoded css
• it is now possible to call the widget directly outside from wp
• fixed a problem with wp >2.5 and the widget dialog
• removed some redundant html
• when showing no current weather information
• placed forecast header into own table with own css class
• added timeout parameter for the accuweather connections
• rounded humidity to integer values
• fixed some typos in swedish translation and added norwegian selection (thanks to RAM_OS)

v1.5 (2008-05-12)

• fixed two dutch phrases in dutch translation
• added norwegian translation (thanks to Eilif)

v1.4 (2008-01-26)

• fix loading the wright textdomain when called from outside wordpress
• added a bit debug code
• work around for a bug in k2rc3 theme
• added italian translation
• added english lanuage file
• a bit of code cleanup
• extend function wp-forecast to select language per widget
• added functions to display a set and a range of widgets at once

v1.3 (2007-12-26)

• added french translation
• added german icon 11 (fog, 11_de.gif)
• extended css classes to support horizontal view via css
• removed repeating section title

v1.2 (2007-11-05)

• extend error handling for serverloss
• added iso8859-1 coded german translation
• fixed bug with german winddirections
• added a widget title
• removed standard location label (this can be handled via alternate location)

v1.1 (2007-10-01)

• fixed: setting the current time could not be disabled
• fixed: on some servers the current date was converted to 0
• switched translations to gettext as recommended by wp codex

v1.0 (2007-09-09)

• fixed accuweather call for us locations
• now works with wordpress mu

v1.0b4 (2007-09-01)

• fixed humidity / pressure checkbox
• removed hard coded formatting, added css class
• added support to show current time

v1.0b3 (2007-07-29)

• fixed output of before/after widget stuff for empty forecast
• fixed different parameters for calling wp_forecast as widget and from sidebar.php
• added swedish translation (thx to H?kan Carlstr?m)

v1.0b2 (2007-07-25)

• work around for bug 4275 in wordpress 2.2
• removed widget id from output

v1.0b (2007-07-17)

• added support for up to 20 widgets with different locations and settings
• added portugese language support
• weather data is now cached in the database
• no cookies needed anymore
• default value of missing translations is now english
• removed configuration dialog from widgets page to avoid misunderstanding about setup
• fixed some minor errors

v0.9.1 (2007-07-01)

• added new field windgusts
• fixed some incompatibility with complex themes

v0.9 (2007-06-23)

• added copyright notice
• added date for current conditions
• added alternative location name

v0.8 (2007-06-18)

• added dutch language support
• show time in wordpress format (option: time_format)

v0.7 (2007-06-11)

• Fixed an incompatibility with wpSEO (used same global variable language which should never happen)

v0.6 (2007-06-07)

• Fixed a lot of incorrect XHTML
• added translation for winddirection
• changed display of low- and hightemperature in forecast
• no decimals for windspeed
• fixed two phrases in translation
• added hint for dealing with german umlaute and search location dialog
• added a bit error handling to surpress long error messages when receiving no or invalid xml from accuweather

v0.5 (2007-06-03)

• added support for wp widgets
• Fixed some incorrect XHTML code
• added selection of the fields to show
• added windspeed unit support (hope you like it Barbara :-))
• added german language support for admin page

v0.4 (2007-05-31)

• never published, only code cleaning done

v0.3 (2007-05-18)

• Integrate forecast

v0.2 (2007-05-17)

• Fixed some incorrect XHTML code
• Fixed path settings for icons and css
• Tested with various browsers

v0.1 (2007-01-15)

• Initial beta release