The National Weather Service Alerts plugin allows you to easily display weather alerts on your website. The
alerts are pulled directly from the National Weather Service (http://alerts.weather.gov) based on the location
that you specify and are then parsed, sorted, and output to your website. The alerts are then automatically updated using
AJAX, based on the severity of the alerts for the specified location. The location can be set by using zipcode,
city and state, or state and county. There is also the option to choose the scope of what alerts to include,
such as alerts only for your county, alerts only for your state, or alerts for the entire United States.
If applicable, a Google Map will be included with polygon overlays to show the affected regions of certain alert
types, such as tornado warnings or flash flood warnings.
Currently the National Weather Service Alerts plugin only works for areas within United States. However, the
plugin expects Atom feeds that use the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) format so in theory any CAP feed could be
used.
Features
- Shortcode
- Widget
- NWS Alerts settings page for adding the Alerts Bar
- Clean html5 markup
- CSS classes that make it easy to override default styles
- Developer API (filters)
Weather Alerts
- Tornado Warning
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning
- Flash Flood Warning
- Flood Warning
- Blizzard Warning
- Winter Storm Warning
- Freeze Warning
- Dust Storm Warning
- High Wind Warning
*The default weather alert types can be modified using the ‘nws_alerts_allowed_alert_types’
and ‘nws_alerts_sort_alert_types’ filter hooks.
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.