Weather
The weather plugin shows current conditions in your area. The plugin for weather data connects with Weather underground API and collects the data:
conditions string, icon, current temperature, feels like temperature, all in Fahrenheit and Celsius degrees.
To show the plugin datam first you have to setup the plugin on settings page. The settings are:
- API Key – your api key from weather underground
- Country – select your country, or the country for which you want to show the conditions.
- City – write the name of the city for which you want to show the conditions. As you start writing the list of locations woll be shown beside the “Select your location” option.
- Location – this is the measuring station that you/ll get the data from. You’ll see the list of the stations for the entered City, and may choose one of them.
- Use icon set – Do you want to sho graphical presentation of the conditions, or not. Also if you want to use icon set provided by the weather underground api or weather font.
- Show feels like – show feels like temperatures (Fahrenheit or Celsius)
- Show weather label – show the weather conditions (i.e. Partly sunny, Clear, Snow … )
- Preview – not an options, but shows how will your sweather snippet look like.
After setting up, you have 2 options:
1. simply echo pdsWeather() where you want the conditions to show. Make sure the plugin is activated before echoing pdsWeather() otherwise it will throw an error.
or
2. go to Appearance -> Widgets and drop and drag the widget to your desired widget area.
From 3.0 Weather Underground API key is required. Please go to Weather underground for your key.
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.