OWM Weather is a powerful weather plugin for WordPress, based on the Open Weather Map API. It uses custom post types and shortcodes, and much more.

Benjamin Denis

Uwe Jacobs

CCDzine

<p><strong>OWM Weather</strong> is derived from the discontinued plugin WP Cloudy. It uses many of the same settings but is completely separate.</p>
<p>OWM Weather is a flexible and easy-to-use weather plugin that allows the creation of unlimited different Weathers using Custom Post Types and the Open Weather Map API.</p>
<p>Create a Weather, select your location, choose the data and customize the look and feel with a few clicks.</p>
<p>Embed it anywhere with the automatically generated shortcode via copy and paste in posts, pages, text widgets, or directly in the PHP files of your theme.</p>
<p>With Custom Post Types, you minimize the maintenance: Override certain settings in the system setup and thereby change all Weather posts automatically.</p>
<p>Check out the documentation, layout examples and comparisons at the <a href="https://ujsoftware.com/owm-weather-blog/" rel="nofollow ugc">OWM Weather Blog</a>.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<h4>Weather information</h4>
<p>Current weather conditions, alerts, hourly up to 48 hours and daily up to 7 days.</p>
<h4>Completely customizable</h4>
<p>Data items can be selected and styled individually. Pick your measurement system, time format, and zone. Choose from several templates, fonts, or icon sets.<br />
Developers have access through custom templates to the raw Open Weather Map data – converted to the selected measurement system, time format, and zone – to build a completely customized layout. A built-in debug template shows all options, data, and generated Html snippets.</p>
<h4>Shortcode Placement</h4>
<p>Use via Gutenberg block, as a widget or via shortcode in content and/or sidebar. Multiple completely different kinds of Weather can be shown on the same page.</p>
<h4>Weather Location</h4>
<p>The worldwide location can be specified by the OWM city id (available for over 200,000 cities), the city/country name via dynamic search, the zip code, the latitude/longitude, or the IP address of the user (geolocation).</p>
<h4>Unlimited weathers</h4>
<p>OWM Weather uses WordPress Custom Post Types which allows for an unlimited number of weathers.</p>
<h4>Multisite</h4>
<p>Turn on the global setup mode and share your network setup and main site weather definitions throughout the network.</p>
<h4>Weather-based Backgrounds</h4>
<p>Define up to 7 different background colors, images or videos depending on the weather condition.</p>
<h4>Cache system</h4>
<p>Weather data is cached at a frequency defined by you. The data is then loaded from your server and you no longer depend on external sources. This avoids slowdowns and blocked page rendering.</p>
<h4>Open Weather Map API</h4>
<p>OWM Weather retrieves the weather information from the Open Weather Map website, a free weather data and forecast API. Get your free API key to avoid running into call limits. Note: It can take several hours before your API key is activated by OWM.</p>
<h4>Dashboard Weather</h4>
<p>You can include OWM Weather in your WordPress Dashboard as a widget.</p>
<h4>Flat & Retina responsive design</h4>
<p>Minimalist and flat responsive design, fully vectorial (SVG/CSS/Webfont), for a perfect display on all devices.</p>
<h4>Options panel</h4>
<p>Do you want to apply configuration settings globally? With our system options panel, you can bypass each setting on all weathers in just a few clicks. A weather page can opt-out of this bypass to ensure it always looks the same.</p>
<h4>Google Tag Manager</h4>
<p>Weather information (current temperature, cloudiness, short description, and category) can be pushed to the Google Tag Manager data layer to analyze web traffic by the weather.</p>
<h4>No ads. Free</h4>
<p>Our plugin will never display any advertising on your site. Did we mention it’s a free WordPress plugin? We kindly ask for a donation should you like the plugin.</p>
<h3>All features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Completely Free! No Ads! Donations are welcome. Thanks for your consideration.</li>
<li>Data provided by OpenWeatherp with 200,000 cities worldwide and for any coordinates around the globe.</li>
<li>Built-in OpenWeather API key for immediate testing.</li>
<li>Caching of OpenWeather data for faster access and to avoid exceeding the dayly API key call limit.</li>
<li>Configurable cache time.</li>
<li>Export, Import and Reset System settings.</li>
<li>Export and Import weather posts via the free default WordPress importer/exporter tool.</li>
<li>Fully responsive & mobile friendly.</li>
<li>Multiple output templates (Standard, horizontal or vertical Card, Sliders, Tables, Tabbed, Charts).</li>
<li>Built-in Debug template.</li>
<li>Custom PHP templates for complete output control.</li>
<li>Display weather by 5 location types: City Id, Longitude/Latitude, Zip/Country, City/Country, and Visitor’s HTML5 Geo Location (fallback by IP address).</li>
<li>Use a custom field to provide City/Country.</li>
<li>48-hour weather forecast with Wind Speed and Direction, Humidity, Dew Point, Pressure, Cloudiness, Precipitation, Visibility, and UV Index. The number of hours selectable.</li>
<li>8-day weather forecast with Wind, Humidity, Dew Point, Pressure, Cloudiness, Precipitation, Visibility, and UV Index. The number of days selectable.</li>
<li>5-day weather forecast charts in 3 hour increments with Wind, Humidity, Dew Point, Pressure, Cloudiness, Precipitation. The number of days selectable.</li>
<li>Historical weather data with Wind Speed and Direction, Humidity, Dew Point, Pressure, Cloudiness, and Visibility. The date and time is selectable.</li>
<li>National weather alerts.</li>
<li>Unlimited weather widgets and forecasts on the same page.</li>
<li>All individual weather options can be bypassed via system options for all weathers at once.</li>
<li>Weather posts can be excluded from System Settings and Parameter Bypass.</li>
<li>Custom location name that overrides the OWM location name.</li>
<li>12 and 24-hour time formats.</li>
<li>Temperature unit metric (°C) and imperial (°F).</li>
<li>Pressure unit (inHg, mmHg, hPA, mb).</li>
<li>Wind speed unit (mi/h, m/s, km/h, kt).</li>
<li>Wind speed indicators can show the direction of the wind or the source of wind flow.</li>
<li>Selectable Timezone to display local times for other locations.</li>
<li>Selectable OpenWeather API language.</li>
<li>Push weather data to Google Tag Manager dataLayer (Temperature, Feels Like, Cloudiness, Short Description, Category, Wind Speed, Wind Direction, Humidity,</li>
<li>Pressure, Precipitation, UV Index, and DewPoint).</li>
<li>Show/hide weather city name.</li>
<li>Show/hide the current weather icon.</li>
<li>Show/hide current weather temperature.</li>
<li>Show/hide current weather feels-like temperature.</li>
<li>Show/hide current weather conditions short description.</li>
<li>Show/hide temperature unit at temperatures.</li>
<li>Show/hide date and time format, day of the week, or today’s date.</li>
<li>Show/hide weather condition icon.</li>
<li>Show/hide link to OpenWeather.</li>
<li>Show/hide the last OpenWeather update time.</li>
<li>Show short or long day names.</li>
<li>Selectable icon packs, some with animated weather condition icons.</li>
<li>Selectable fonts.</li>
<li>Display the highest and lowest temperatures.</li>
<li>Show/hide sunrise and sunset.</li>
<li>Show/hide moonrise and moonset.</li>
<li>Custom CSS per widget.</li>
<li>Select small, medium, or large weather sizes.</li>
<li>Show/hide loading spinner. Spinner doubles as a refresh button.</li>
<li>Show/hide OpenLayers-based map via Leaflet bases script.</li>
<li>Show/hide map layers for Cities, Clouds, Precipitation, Rain, Snow, Wind, Temperature, Pressure, and Windrose.</li>
<li>Adjust map height, layers opacity, initial zoom, and zoom wheel.</li>
<li>Unlimited colors for the text, background, border, and overlay.</li>
<li>Adjust the widget’s text color, background color, border color, border width, border style, and border radius.</li>
<li>Adjust the table’s text color, background color, border color, border width, border style, and border radius.</li>
<li>Adjust the chart’s text color, background color, border color, border width, border style, and border radius.</li>
<li>Adjust chart line color for temperature, feels-like, and dew point.</li>
<li>Use any image or video from the media library for the background.</li>
<li>Set weather-based backgrounds or images (Sunny, Cloudy, Drizzly, Rainy, Snowy, Stormy, and Foggy).</li>
<li>Clean minimal background for flat UI design.</li>
<li>Gutenberg block</li>
<li>Widget ready.</li>
<li>Fully localized language support.</li>
<li>Fully translation ready with PoEdit, WPML, Polylang, Loco Translate, and more.</li>
<li>Compatible with themes and page builders like Elementor, Divi, WPBakery, and more.</li>
<li>Support via WordPress support forum.</li>
<li>Regular updates.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Languages</h3>
<ul>
<li>Brazilian</li>
<li>Chilean</li>
<li>Danish</li>
<li>Dutch</li>
<li>English</li>
<li>Estonian</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>Hebrew</li>
<li>Hebrew (Israel)</li>
<li>Hungarian</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Persian</li>
<li>Polish</li>
<li>Russian</li>
<li>Serbian</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
</ul>
<p>Add yours with PoEdit. The latest .pot file can be found under /wp-content/plugins/own/weather/lang/. Place your .po/.mo files into the same folder. We will gladly add them in future releases.</p>


OWM Weather

Very well done. I would like the author to re-examine the template system to allow an indeterminate amount of templates, and custom template directories.

Excellent Plugin

It is a plugin with many options and very configurable. I had a problem with the Spanish translations and the technical support solved it in record time with a plugin update.

Thanks uwe!

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