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<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 2.2 or 2.0.x/2.1.x with WordPress Widgets</li>
<li>PHP 4.3.0 or greater (needed for function file_get_contents)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Location</h4>
<p>The location can either be a zip code for US users or the locid. To find the locid, you can do a search using http://xoap.weather.com/search/search?where=[search parameters].This will return an XML file with search results and their corresponding locid’s.</p>
<p>You can also find it using the Weather.com website. After searching for and selecting your city, you will be sent to a url that will look something like, http://www.weather.com/outlook/driving/interstate/local/USTX0617?from=search_city, where USTX0617 is the locid.</p>
<h4>Image Hosting</h4>
<p>I’ve provided the images used and provided by weather.com <a href="http://nothingoutoftheordinary.com/weatherimages.tar.gz" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>. If you want to host your own images, extract and upload the files, then, in the admin panel, edit the ‘Image Location’ field to point to your directory of images. Make sure to have the trailing slash.</p>
<p>If you don’t use your own images, you are free to use the ones that I’ve hosted, which are located at http://nothingoutoftheordinary.com/weatherimages/</p>
<h3>Formatting</h3>
<p>You can edit ‘Widget Formatting’ to change how the info is displayed. To access the variables, use this formatting:</p>
<ul>
<li>%loc% – Location</li>
<li>%temp% – Current temperature</li>
<li>%feels% – Feels like temperature</li>
<li>%icon% – The icon referring to the current weather. This is just a number</li>
<li>%iconhref% – The location of the image with your set image location at the front</li>
<li>%attribution% – The link supposedly required to be displayed. Weather data provided by weather.com®</li>
</ul>
<p>The default formatting is:</p>
<p><img src=”%iconhref%” alt=”%cond%” style=”float:right;” /><br />
%loc%<br /><br />
<span style=”font-size: 150%;”>%temp% °F</span><br />
(%feels% °F)<br /><br />
<span style=”font-size: 65%; float: right;”>%attribution%</a></p>


Weather Widget

This widget displays the current condition, temperature, and the feels like temperature. It uses weather.com’s xoap api to retrieve the information.

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>
<blockquote>
<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>
</blockquote>
<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.

Highly customisable, well documented, developer-/designer-friendly

Get accurate and beautiful weather forecasts powered by Wunderground.com

Weather Widget vs Weather Underground