Mike Freeman

<p>WeatherWrite brings your local weather coverage to the cloud. It automatically captures real conditions and generates posts that highlight yesterday’s recap, today’s forecast, and tomorrow’s outlook — all written in the style you choose. Schedule posts to publish exactly when you want, with automated images matched to the weather. Customize as much as you like, or let WeatherWrite handle the heavy lifting. Your readers get weather that feels personal, and you stay in control while the work gets done for you.</p>
<p>Video walkthrough: <a href="https://youtu.be/4ZUW77WvSCc" rel="nofollow ugc">https://youtu.be/4ZUW77WvSCc</a></p>
<p>Features:<br />
– Generates a dedicated post for each weather report created, on demand or on a schedule.<br />
– Scheduled auto-posting (up to 6 times per day and you control the schedule)<br />
– Admin settings for API key, schedule, images, weather alerts, writing style, and defaults</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to several external services to generate weather-aware content and visualizations. Details for each service are below.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>ReIntent API (text generation)</p>
<ul>
<li>Endpoints: https://xwkwzbjifh.execute-api.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/v1 and https://1xt5le1gn6.execute-api.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/v1</li>
<li>What it’s used for: Generates the narrative text given prompts and options from the plugin settings.</li>
<li>What data is sent and when: On-demand (when you click generate or scheduled runs), the prompt text and selected options (e.g., location string, tone, length) are sent. Requires your API key; the plugin does not store API responses beyond creating the post. To obtain your key, email mike@weatherwrite.com.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Open‑Meteo Forecast API</p>
<ul>
<li>Endpoint: https://api.open-meteo.com</li>
<li>What it’s used for: Retrieves forecast and hourly data used in summaries, charts, and thresholds.</li>
<li>What data is sent and when: Latitude/longitude, desired variables, unit and language parameters on fetch.</li>
<li>Privacy: https://open-meteo.com/en/privacy</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Open‑Meteo Geocoding API</p>
<ul>
<li>Endpoint: https://geocoding-api.open-meteo.com</li>
<li>What it’s used for: Resolves user-entered place names to coordinates.</li>
<li>What data is sent and when: Query string (place name), country hint, language.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Nominatim (fallback geocoding)</p>
<ul>
<li>Endpoint: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org</li>
<li>What it’s used for: Fallback geocoding if Open‑Meteo geocoder cannot resolve.</li>
<li>What data is sent and when: Query string in the request URL. A User‑Agent header identifying the site is included.</li>
<li>Policy: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/nominatim/</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>GeoNames</p>
<ul>
<li>Endpoint: http://api.geonames.org</li>
<li>What it’s used for: Looks up GeoNameID and region metadata for map embeds.</li>
<li>What data is sent and when: GeoNameID queries and/or name lookups; includes the configured username.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>OpenWeather (official alerts)</p>
<ul>
<li>Endpoint: https://api.openweathermap.org</li>
<li>What it’s used for: When enabled in settings, retrieves official weather alerts via One Call 3.0 for the configured location.</li>
<li>What data is sent and when: Latitude/longitude when checking for alerts.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Meteoblue (map embed)</p>
<ul>
<li>Website: https://www.meteoblue.com</li>
<li>What it’s used for: Optional iframe map shown in posts if enabled.</li>
<li>What data is sent and when: Parameters are included in the iframe URL (e.g., geonameId and/or lat/lon). No plugin-side requests are made; it is a browser iframe embed.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>


Weather Write


Full transparency, I built this plugin, so take my "review" with a grain of salt. I built WeatherWrite for newspaper publishers. The world of a bustling news room with dozens of writers, phones ringing, and an old grumpy editor smoking a cigar are visions from the past. Today's newsroom is a small group of generalists. No longer do they have days to write an article, but articles to write in a day. I wanted to help relieve some of that stress with WeatherWrite. Publishers can automate the process of generating weather reports automatically. Written in their voice, custom images for their market, and tagged, posted and written how they want. From the very beginning, control was my number 1 most important factor. So, I give you all the control. You can modify everything to fit your publication. 







Thanks for taking a look and if anyone has questions, I'm happy to answer them. Just drop me an email at mike@weatherwrite.com


Automated Weather Reporting

Weather-aware writing prompts/snippets inside WordPress. Generate posts manually or on a schedule using ReIntentAPI and Open-Meteo.

Gaurav Tiwari

<h3>Automate your SEO</h3>
<p>Insert dynamic dates anywhere in your WordPress content using simple shortcodes:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Years</strong>: <code>[year]</code> (current), <code>[nyear]</code> (next), <code>[pyear]</code> (previous)</li>
<li><strong>Months</strong>: <code>[month]</code> (January), <code>[mon]</code> (Jan), <code>[nmonth]</code>/<code>[pmonth]</code> (next/previous)</li>
<li><strong>Dates</strong>: <code>[date]</code> (full date), <code>[dt]</code> (day number), <code>[weekday]</code> (day name)</li>
<li><strong>Age</strong>: <code>[age date="1990-05-15"]</code> calculates years from any date</li>
<li><strong>Season</strong>: <code>[season]</code> displays current season (supports hemispheres)</li>
<li><strong>Countdowns</strong>: <code>[daysuntil date="2025-12-25"]</code> and <code>[dayssince date="2020-01-01"]</code></li>
<li><strong>Post Dates</strong>: <code>[datemodified]</code> and <code>[datepublished]</code> shortcodes.</li>
<li><strong>Event Dates</strong>: <code>[blackfriday]</code> and <code>[cybermonday]</code> shortcodes.</li>
<li><strong>Block Editor support</strong>: Toolbar to quickly insert the shortcodes, customizable date and countdown blocks.</li>
</ul>
<p>Works in posts, pages, titles, widgets, and SEO meta. Renders in your WordPress language. Perfect for affiliate marketers, bloggers, and anyone who wants evergreen content that updates automatically.</p>
<p>But that’s not it.</p>
<p><a href="https://gauravtiwari.org/snippet/dynamic-month-year/#shortcodes" rel="nofollow ugc">See Full List of Shortcodes</a></p>
<ul>
<li>New: Display current season with <code>[season]</code> shortcode. Supports hemisphere: <code>[season region="south"]</code> for Southern hemisphere.</li>
<li>New: Calculate age with <code>[age date="1990-05-15"]</code> shortcode. Add ordinal suffix with <code>ordinal="true"</code> (e.g., “35th”).</li>
<li>New: Post dates with <code>[datemodified]</code> and <code>[datepublished]</code> shortcodes.</li>
<li>New: Event dates with <code>[blackfriday]</code> and <code>[cybermonday]</code> shortcodes.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Gutenberg Blocks</h3>
<p>Four dedicated blocks for the Block Editor:</p>
<p><strong>Dynamic Date Block</strong> – Insert any dynamic date with live preview:</p>
<ul>
<li>Select date type from dropdown (year, month, date, age, season, etc.)</li>
<li>Configure age format (years only, years & months, full breakdown)</li>
<li>Set ordinal suffix for age display</li>
<li>Typography and color controls</li>
<li>Spacing options (margin, padding)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Live Countdown Block</strong> – Real-time countdown powered by WordPress Interactivity API:</p>
<ul>
<li>Count days until or since any date</li>
<li>Auto-updates at midnight without page reload</li>
<li>Customizable label text</li>
<li>Typography and color styling</li>
<li>Perfect for event promotions and milestones</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Published Date Block</strong> – Display the post’s publication date:</p>
<ul>
<li>Uses WordPress date format from Settings</li>
<li>Custom format support</li>
<li>Typography and color controls</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Modified Date Block</strong> – Display the post’s last modified date:</p>
<ul>
<li>Uses WordPress date format from Settings</li>
<li>Custom format support</li>
<li>Typography and color controls</li>
</ul>
<p>All blocks are found under “Widgets” category in the Block Inserter. Plus, a toolbar button in the formatting toolbar lets you quickly insert any shortcode into text blocks.</p>
<h3>Works with popular SEO Plugins</h3>
<ul>
<li>Supports RankMath, Yoast and SEOPress plugins and can be used to replace all their date based variables.</li>
<li><code>[year]</code> works as a replacement to <code>%currentyear%</code> , <code>[month]</code> as a replacement to <code>%currentmonth%</code> already.</li>
<li>Use various combinations to make your articles even more dynamic and make your content always SEO ready — no matter the date or year.</li>
<li>Extremely useful for Affiliate Marketers, Amazon Affiliates and Copywriters.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Tested Support With</h4>
<ul>
<li>Rank Math</li>
<li>Rank Math Pro</li>
<li>SEOPress</li>
<li>SEOPress Premium</li>
<li>Yoast SEO</li>
<li>Yoast SEO Premium</li>
<li>SureRank</li>
<li>Gutenberg and Block Editor Content, Headings and Buttons</li>
<li><a href="https://gauravtiwari.org/best-gutenberg-blocks-plugins-for-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">All popular Block Editor Addons</a>, including Greenshift, GenerateBlocks, Ultimate Blocks, Kadence Blocks, Spectra, Otter Blocks.</li>
<li>Elementor Page Builder</li>
<li>WP Bakery Page Builder</li>
<li>Visual Composer</li>
<li>Beaver Builder</li>
<li>Brizy Builder</li>
<li>Oxygen Builder</li>
<li>Bricks Builder</li>
<li>Jetpack Related Posts</li>
<li>Intelly Related Posts a.k.a. Inline Related Posts (IRP)</li>
<li>Advanced Custom Fields (Manual: please see the FAQs)</li>
<li>Lightweight Accordion (including Schema)</li>
<li>All major themes including Twenty Twenty-Five, Twenty Twenty-Four, Twenty Twenty-Three, Twenty Twenty-Two, Twenty Twenty-One, Twenty Twenty, Astra, Neve, Hello (Elementor), Kadence, GeneratePress, Blocksy, and OceanWP.</li>
</ul>
<p>Tested to be totally working with Yoast SEO, SEOPress and Rank Math’s breadcrumbs, custom meta titles, excerpt etc.</p>
<p>Note: Since August 2021, Google has started showing h1 titles in search results, this plugin becomes even more useful as no other SEO plugins adds Current Month, Current Year or Today’s Date in h1 titles except this; keeping the same in SEO meta as well.</p>
<h3>More features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Full Rank Math OpenGraph Support.</li>
<li>Full Schema and OpenGraph support in YoastSEO.</li>
<li>Multiple Langauge (WPML) Support: Shortcode renders your site’s defined language.</li>
<li>Contextual Related Posts Support.</li>
<li>Jetpack Related Posts Support.</li>
<li>Totally native. Doesn’t write anything to the database.</li>
<li>No configuration required.</li>
<li>Cache friendly.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Easy to use</h3>
<p>Just install the plugin (see Installation tab) and activate it. Add [year] to render current year, [nyear] to render next year, [pyear] to render previous year, [month] to render current month (full name) and [mon] to render first three letters of months automatically. <a href="https://gauravtiwari.org/snippet/dynamic-month-year/#shortcodes" rel="nofollow ugc">See Full List of Shortcodes</a> (You can also see this link in <em>Plugins</em> page in your WordPress dashboard).</p>
<p>As the months & years change, these shortcodes get updated into the content and title automatically on the shortcode locations.</p>
<p>Zero bloat. No CSS/JS files loaded. No database queries are made and the content is rendered on-the-fly. I am a performance geek and digital marketer myself, so I understand what you need. Please use a <a href="https://gauravtiwari.org/best-wordpress-caching-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress cache plugin</a> to cache the rendered content.</p>
<p>Also, Dynamic Month & Year into Posts is a totally free plugin. There are no upsells and will never be.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://gauravtiwari.org/snippet/dynamic-month-year/" rel="nofollow ugc">More details</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dynamic-month-year-into-posts/" rel="ugc">Free Support</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gauravtiwari.org/code/" rel="nofollow ugc">More WordPress Plugins and Web Tools</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gauravtiwari.org/wordpress-deals/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Deals</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gauravtiwari.org/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">Request a Feature</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>Dynamic Month & Year into Posts by <a href="https://gauravtiwari.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Gaurav Tiwari</a> is a completely native shortcode plugin. It has no settings page and does not use any analytics tool to gather or use your data. It’s bloat and ad-free. No notifications. No upgrade notices. Nothing.</p>
<h3>Fast Support and Feature Implementation</h3>
<p>I will provide instant support for all your queries or feature requests. Use <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/dynamic-month-year-into-posts/" rel="ugc">support forum</a> to ask your questions, request new features or report something broken. I will also update the plugin for every major and minor WordPress version.</p>
<h3>Compatibility</h3>
<p>I use the plugin myself on <a href="https://gauravtiwari.org" rel="nofollow ugc">my primary website</a> and other client sites that I run. I try my best to ensure that this plugin is compatible with every functionality plugin you use. Please let me know if this plugin isn’t compatible with your stack, create a support request and allow me some time.</p>
<p>Please note that some plugins strip shortcodes or disable rendering of shortcodes. In such cases, it’s impossible to implement dynamic dates without rewriting the whole plugin code and breaking a couple of things. But still, I’ll give a try.</p>
<p>Help me with a positive review to keep the development going.</p>


Dynamic Month & Year into Posts

Plugin does exactly what it says, nothing more and nothing less.

Simple and useful plugin

Great plugin but I did notice two issues.

1) The WebPage name in Yoast Schema doesn't get processed correctly. You can fix that with this:

add_filter('wpseo_schema_webpage', function($data) {
    $data['name'] = do_shortcode($data['name']);

    return $data;
});


2) If you use the Grow Social by Mediavine plugin then the meta tags will not be processed correctly either (will just show [year] etc). An easy fix is to check the option "Disable Open Graph Meta Tags" in Grow Social's settings. Since I'm using Yoast I don't think it was really doing anything anyways.

Works great


It solves the problme for recuring posts. 



Gaurav is supper fast in responding to support requests too! 


Plugin and support rock!

Automate SEO and content with dynamic shortcodes for dates, years, months, age calculations, seasons and countdowns in content, titles and meta.

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