Get accurate and beautiful weather forecasts powered by Wunderground.com

Zack Katz

<h3>Wunderground is the best WordPress weather site.</h3>
<p>Wunderground.com has the most accurate and in-depth weather information. They’re also not evil corporate giants, and are weather geeks, which is nice. This plugin uses the Wunderground API for its accurate forecasts.</p>
<h3>If you want a great-looking weather forecast, use this plugin.</h3>
<p><strong>This is the best-looking weather forecast plugin for WordPress.</strong> It looks great on many different templates out of the box, including the default WP theme.</p>
<h3>For more information, visit the <a href="https://github.com/katzwebservices/Wunderground#setting-up-the-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin information page</a></h3>
<p>Learn about setting up the plugin, how to configure the shortcode, template overrides and more on the <a href="https://github.com/katzwebservices/Wunderground#setting-up-the-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin info page</a>.</p>
<h4>About Weather Underground</h4>
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<p>Weather Underground has challenged the conventions around how weather information is shared with the public since 1993. We’re immensely proud of the unique products that our community and meteorologists have created to improve people’s access to meaningful weather data from around the globe. As the Internet’s 1st weather service, we consider ourselves pioneers within our field and we’re constantly seeking new data sets and the next technologies that will help us share more data with more people.</p>
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<p><em>Weather Underground is a registered trademark of The Weather Channel, LLC. both in the United States and internationally. The Weather Underground Logo is a trademark of Weather Underground, LLC.</em></p>


Weather Underground

I had expected the worst when I started looking for a simple, customisable weather widget, but this plugin immediately made me feel at ease. It is just what I was looking for – thank you so much, Zack!

The plugin does not provide a settings page, because it does not need one. That is great news in my world. The code is well documented and the output highly customisable with filters (hip hip hooray!) and even templates (for those who rather would like to copy a template file over to a theme and edit it there instead of messing with WordPress filters).

With this plugin I set up a customised weather widget in less than 30 minutes, and that included reading instructions on templating. Turned out I didn’t even use a template or filter, I just added some minor tweaks via CSS as the default “current” template looked already great.

The widget comes with branding which I think is fair. The API service provider apparently does not try to sell any services through the plugin. They don’t even have you register your own API key, but ship a global one with the plugin instead. So I gladly kept the (very modest) branding, just added a minor adjustment of CSS positioning.

Finally, it may be worth noting the API worked like a charm outside of America. The location I entered was a teeny-tiny town in east Germany, but the API had not the slightest issue fetching its data immediately. Bravo!

I recommend this plugin if you are looking for a well performing, well documented, well translated weather widget with a variety of useful default templates and great resources for customisation.

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