WP Google Weather

This is my first Wordpress plugin. It displays a weather widget using the unofficial Google weather API.

Features

  • show today’s weather
  • show weather forecast for next 3 days
  • specifiy output language
  • choose between Celsius or Fahrenheit
  • comes with predefined CSS style
  • valid XHTML output

Example

You can see a working example down right in my sidebar.

Backend

Wordpress Backend Widget Options

Frontend

Frontend style

Installation

  1. Unzip and upload files the files to wp-content/plugins/wp-google-weather
  2. Activate the plugin
  3. Go to Themes > Widgets and drag WP Google Weather widget to your sidebar
  4. Specify title, city, country (optional), temperature as Celsius or Fahrenheit and language (ISO 639-1 code)
  5. decide whether it should display only today’s weather or also a 3 day forecast

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What are ISO 639-1 codes?
A: Two letter codes for the country.

Some examples

USA: us
England: en
Germany: de
France: fr

A complete list of the codes can be found at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes

Requirements

You need at least Wordpress version 2.8 or higher and a theme which allows widgets.

Download

WP Google Weather at Wordpress.org