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<p>WX Weather displays data from a Personal Weather Station, retrieved from the website <a href="www.wunderground.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Weather Underground</a>.</p>
<p>to use this for your own Weather Station, you need to submit your data to Weather Underground, and you know your Weather Station code. to find out more about how to do this, visit <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/about.asp" rel="nofollow ugc">Weather Underground’s Personal Weather Station Page</a>.</p>
<p>data is cached locally in your WordPress install, so it only makes one request to Weather Underground every five minutes.</p>


WX Weather Widget

WX Weather is a WordPress widget designed to display data from a Personal Weather Station (PWS) in your blog sidebar.

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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.

WX Weather Widget vs Weather Widget