giWeather
giWeather is a Wordpress widget (and block for new themes) that shows the weather forecast with a clean, clear and responsive style inspired by Google …
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Possibly abandoned • Last updated 1034 days ago • Support resolved 0% • 10 reviews
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Description
giWeather is a WordPress widget (and block for new themes) that shows the weather forecast with a clean, clear and responsive style inspired by Google.
Features:
- Possibility to choose the source of weather forecast between OpenWeatherMap (Worldwide) and National Weather Service weather.gov (USA only)
- Endless colors. Possibility to choose the color of the weather module with a simple color picker;
- Unit of Measure support: Imperial/British and Metric/International;
- TimeZone support: possibility to choose the time zone of the weather forecast;
- Font Size selection: Small, Medium, Large;
- Many iconset (from near reality to flat icon): Iconvault Forecast (font), Meteocons (font/img) dark and light, gk4 (img), OpenWeatherMap (img, external), Google (img, external);
- Deferred load of module in order to speed up website loading;
- Data cache for faster loading and reduce the demands on the forecast source;
- Fully responsive – will adapt to any device;
- Advanced touch / swipe support built-in;
- Wind icons with intensity and direction;
- Possibility to choose the time horizon of the forecast;
- Possibility to show or hide the detail sections of the module: Locality, Date, Descriptive weather, Humidity , Pressure , Wind, Thumbnails Forecasts;
- Multilanguage forecast descriptive text support (OpenWeatherMap): English, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Ukrainian, German, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Finnish, Dutch, French, Bulgarian, Swedish, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Turkish, Croatian, Catalan;
- Browser support: Firefox, Chrome, Safari, iOS, Android, IE.
- Highly customizable with CSS;
For more information visit the giWeather home page at: https://giweather.gardainformatica.it/
Installation
You can either install it automatically from the WordPress admin, or do it manually.
Install from WordPress admin:
- In the administrative interface of WordPress go to Plugin > Add New;
- Search giWeather and choose Install now;
- Activate the plugin;
- Click on giWeather Options from the main navigation menu and add your “OpenWeatherMap App ID” (Register a free account on OpenWeatherMap to receive a free App Id)
- Add giWeather widgets from the Available Widgets section (or the new Add Block section) by dragging it to the Sidebar you want to customize;
- Configure the widget/block and save it.
For more information visit the documentation page at: https://giweather.gardainformatica.it/documentation-wordpress
OR
Install manually:
- Unzip the archive and put the giweather folder into your plugins folder (/wp-content/plugins/).
- In the administrative interface of WordPress go to Plugin and activate giWeather;
- Click on giWeather Options from the main navigation menu and add your “OpenWeatherMap App ID” (Register a free account on OpenWeatherMap to receive a free App Id)
- Add giWeather widgets from the Available Widgets section (or the new Add Block section) by dragging it to the Sidebar you want to customize;
- Configure the widget/block and save it.
For more information visit the documentation page at: https://giweather.gardainformatica.it/documentation-wordpress
Frequently Asked Questions
Starting from 9 October 2015 OpenWeatherMap requires a valid APPID for access. Register a free account on OpenWeatherMap to receive a free App Id; Once you have your App Id enter it in the configuration of giWeather in the field OpenWeatherMap App Id;
Starting from 9 October 2015 OpenWeatherMap requires a valid APPID for access. Register a free account on OpenWeatherMap to receive a free App Id; Once you have your App Id enter it in the configuration of giWeather in the field OpenWeatherMap App Id;
- Go to https://openweathermap.org/find
- Search for your city;
- Click the result correpondig to your city;
- The ID is the last part of the url. Eg. If the url is https://openweathermap.org/city/3181554 then the corresponding ID is 3181554.
For more information visit the documentation page at: https://giweather.gardainformatica.it/documentation-wordpress
Weather.gov REST service works only with USA latitude and longitude. To obtain the latitude and longitude of an American city you can use the external service https://www.latlong.net/
For more information visit the documentation page at: https://giweather.gardainformatica.it/documentation-wordpress
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For more information visit the documentation page at: https://giweather.gardainformatica.it/documentation-wordpress
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Example of display of meteorological forecasts of temperatures and winds with giWeather. Forecast source: OpenWeatherMap, Icons: Google.

Example of display of meteorological forecasts with giWeather. Forecast source: OpenWeatherMap, Icons: Yahoo and Gk4.

Configuration options of giWeather widget (v1.1.0). More options to come.
Changelog
1.6.5
- Bugfix weather API
1.6.4
- Bugfix infinite loading
1.6.3
- Changes to conform to WordPress-Coding-Standards
1.6.2
- Changes to conform to WordPress Plugin directory guidelines
1.6.1
- Bugfix external icons
1.6.0
- Added support for the new WordPress block editor
- Bugfix fixed some issues with HTTPS websites
- Bugfix added support to new API of weather.gov National Weather Service (NWS)
1.5.1
- Bugfix (forgot to add white icons)
1.5.0
- Added weather.gov forecast source (USA only)
1.3.0
- Added Unit of Measure selection: Imperial/British and Metric/International;
- Added TimeZone Support;
- Added Wind White Iconset;
- Added Font Size selection: Small, Medium, Large;
- Hidden paging when all forecasts are visible without scrolling;
1.2.0
- Added AppId for OpenWeatherMap;
- Added Color;
- Added complete Albanian language thanks to Festim Krasniqi;
1.1.0
- First Release of WordPress version;
- Added complete Dutch (NL) language thanks to Bert Lammerts van Bueren www.webdiezain.nl
- Added frontend language: Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian, German, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Finnish, French, Bulgarian, Swedish, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Turkish, Croatian, Catalan;
1.0.0
- First Release (only Joomla)