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wp-weather

Latest version: 0.3.8
Please update to the latest version. I apologize for the rash of updates, but this version should fix all issues while allowing multiple forecasts to be used. Hopefully this will be the final update for quite some time.

Download link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-weather/

I have been using weather.com’s XML web service to display local weather information on my family website for several years. I decided to make the PHP code into a widget for wordpress. Here’s where you sign up for their service: http://www.weather.com/services/xmloap.html

This widget uses a database table to cache the data for a half hour to avoid hammering the web service. Additionally, if you are using the wp-cache plugin, any changes to the options clear the cache.

To install: upload to your plugin directory, activate the plugin, set the options and add the widget to your sidebar. Your location ID is a zip code for US and an alphanumeric code for international. Take Dublin for example – when searching for Dublin on weather.com you are taken to the following page: http://www.weather.com/weather/today/Dublin+Ireland+EIXX0014 and EIXX0014 is the location code.

Additionally, you may use a shortcode on any post or page.
[weather_display]
If you want to show different cities on different pages/posts you can specify a location id:
[weather_display location_id="75034"]
If you’d like to display more days than default (what you set in the plugin options page):
[weather_display forecast_length=5]

weather.com has made changes to their servers which now REQUIRE you to enter a partner id and license key in this plugin’s settings. If you do not, they will not send the complete forecast data which in turn will break this plugin.

Preview:

221 responses to “wp-weather”

  1. Derek
    Derek
    July 1, 2009 at 6:57 am |

    Hi Matt

    I added wp-weather and now have :

    Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /usr/www/users/theoar/wp/wp-content/plugins/wp-weather/wp-weather.php on line 394

    Advice?

  2. Kev
    Kev
    July 6, 2009 at 6:00 am |

    The config link to setup this widget does not work.

    I have the partner ID and the license key but no idea how to set this up now. I also know the City code.

    Please help or link to a config page for this widget.

    Cheers,
    Kev

  3. Anz
    Anz
    July 7, 2009 at 10:22 am |

    Hi Matt !
    Great plugin. Just what I was looking for
    But there is a small problem. I live outside the USA and some times weather.com doesnt display weather and so for my city it shows N/A

    However the plugin doesn’t display the N/A image which is bundled with the other plugin files (just like how it does for sunny and cloudy)
    So the widget just displays this:

    Currently: ˚ C
    Feels Like: ˚ C
    Hi: ˚, Lo: ˚

    It looks very odd on my sidebar..Any ideas ??

  4. Lucian
    Lucian
    July 13, 2009 at 1:34 pm |

    Multiple cities function would be really great.

  5. DGH
    DGH
    July 14, 2009 at 9:37 pm |

    I have PHP 5 and wordpress 2.8.1, will this widget work? Thanks!

  6. DGH
    DGH
    July 14, 2009 at 10:00 pm |

    Signing up to weather.com’s XML service is nothing short of ridiculous. Where are the codes for the service? They provide zero instruction as to what happens after they throw 10 or more + ads at you!

  7. DGH
    DGH
    July 14, 2009 at 10:07 pm |

    I forgot to mention that I checked my email for the info as well, and nothing.

  8. kosma
    kosma
    July 31, 2009 at 5:13 am |

    How can I get the partner_id and licence key?

  9. laerte
    laerte
    August 15, 2009 at 4:15 pm |

    Hi there,

    I just wanna know why sometimes show this message:

    Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Exception’ with message ‘String could not be parsed as XML’ in /public_html/site/wp-content/plugins/wp-weather/wp-weather.php:306 Stack trace: #0 /public_html/site/wp-content/plugins/wp-weather/wp-weather.php(306): SimpleXMLElement->__construct(”) #1 /public_html/site/wp-content/plugins/wp-weather/wp-weather.php(295): parseSimpleXml(”) #2

    Please, if you know.. mail me.
    Thanks again :)

  10. Lauro Roger
    Lauro Roger
    August 17, 2009 at 6:15 am |

    Hi, I’m looking for where I can edit the alt texts for Rain, Farly… etc.
    can you halp me?

  11. Steven
    Steven
    October 7, 2009 at 9:48 pm |

    Hi,
    I’ve installed this plug-in but the weather only shows the information from when it is last refreshed.
    Is there a way to set this to automatically refresh whenever someone loads the page, or automatically in the background every 10 minutes or so?

    Thanks

  12. Pad
    Pad
    October 12, 2009 at 12:59 am |

    Laerte, I had the same issue, didn’t have time to invest though, I just switched off the plugin. Maybe the provided xml format has changed, I don’t know. If anybody has a clue…

  13. Matt Brotherson
    Matt Brotherson
    October 12, 2009 at 8:58 am |

    Steven – it is hardcoded in the plugin file to refresh every 30 minutes. This is required by weather.com.

    Pad/Laerte – the issue here is that sometimes weather.com doesn’t return the full XML in their response. I’ve coded around this in one instance, but looks like I need additional checks.

  14. Pad
    Pad
    October 12, 2009 at 4:55 pm |

    Thanks for the answer, i must confess i haven’t taken time to investigate this issue so far ;)

  15. Barb
    Barb
    October 14, 2009 at 5:56 pm |

    Hi, sorry to be stupid, but I’ve signed up with weather.com and for the life of me I can’t figure out where to find the Id and license number. Can you help me?

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