Chris Kindred

Glad to hear it was an easy fix. Thanks for letting me know.

Thanks for reaching out. Yes, the plugin will display the real-time water temp for that location. You can see what the default output would look like here. There are also actions and filters built into the output for the data that allow you to add and remove content based on the values returned..

@ahinerfeld I will add it to my list of feature requests. I am in the process of updating the plugin to enable a Gutenberg Block version instead of just shortcodes. I think this would be a good option to add with that depending on the additional lift needed. Thanks!

@ericathumma
The newest version of the plugin (22.05.01) includes a new action that runs after the location title but before the values are listed out. This would provide you with a great place to echo content based on a value or a site is that is being displayed. Let me know if that ends up working well for your situation.

Oh yeah, that is weird! Glad it is working now. I’ll dig around the WP Slack and see if anybody has reported any issues around that same topic.

Let me know if you have any other issues. I am happy to help out if I can.

I cannot recreate the issue on any of my test or live sites running the plugin. I am assuming that you are able to install and activate other plugins without any issue. This could be pretty difficult to track down but I am happy to troubleshoot it with you.

Do you mind providing more information about your environment (WordPress Version, Active Plugin List with versions, Theme with version, PHP version, and host)?

Thanks!

Thanks for reaching out Erica.

If I were writing something to handle that I would add them as shortcode params, something like this:

[USGS location='07164500' highGage=6 lowGage=4.6 /]

That way you can check those variables if they exist and you don’t have to hard code any individual locations. I hope that helps but if not feel free to reach back out.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by Chris Kindred.

The plugin doesn’t store the data locally, just queries the data from the API endpoint as needed.

It is not possible right now but I’ll add it to my list of suggestions. I have been working on a fairly large overhaul of the plugin and this is something that would be nice to implement. Thanks for the suggestion and I am glad the plugin has been useful so far!

Glad you got it figured out. Thanks for letting everyone know. I will mark this as resolved.

I haven’t been able to recreate your issue. Have you tried creating a new Google Client ID and Secret?

I use a transient to cache the request for 12 hours. There is a way to clear all the transients through the WP CLI but that will affect the site speed if you get a lot of traffic. Depending on your host and how they handle transients, but unless you are running an object cache like Memcached or Redis your transients are stored in the database and won’t be affected by the server page caching options.

Sounds to me like I need a new feature that allows the user to set the caching time. I’ll see about adding that in with a future update.

I just released a new version of the plugin that addresses an issue with the caching and verifies that the plugin works with WordPress Core 5.7.2. If you continue to have any other issues, let me know.

@randolrf I just added the location to a test page on my site and it is showing the correct data points (31800 ft3/s, 13.38 ft). The data gets cached in a transient on the site in order to keep from querying the site on each page load. I am thinking that it might be showing a cached value. The cache should expire every 12 hours but I am thinking about making the total cache time as part of the shortcode attributes.

https://www.kindredwebconsulting.com/wp-plugins/

I just pushed an update. Take a look using the new version and let me know.