Visual Crossing Weather Forecast

Description

This plugin allows you to display beautifully formatted Weather Forecasts using a simple shortcode. You can insert this shortcode anywhere in your WordPress post or page.

Weather by visualcrossing.com

The weather data is powered by Visual Crossing Weather.

Requires a free or paid key to access the data.

• Visual Crossing API Key

Once you have the API Key, you can save it in the WordPress admin panel under 'Settings' -> 'Weather Forecast Settings'

Shortcode

The plugin enabled a shortcode that allows you to display a weather forecast for any location worldwide:

• [weather]: display weather forecast using global settings.
• [weather loc="London, UK" days="4"]: display weather forecast overriding global settings using parameters.

Shortcode parameters

• loc=” (String – Location or Address for which you want to fetch and display weather the forecast)
• days=7 (Number – Number of days for which you want to display weather forecast)
• mode=” (string (can be “simple” or “d3”) – Used to indicate the format in which to display the weather forecast)
• title=” (String – Text you want to display above the weather forecast widget. Used only in “simple” mode)
• showtitle=” (string (can be “Yes” or “No”) Used to Hide or display the title)
• unit=” (string (can be “US” or “Metric”) – Unit system in which to display the weather forecast)
• conditions=” (string (can be “Yes” or “No”) – Used to Hide or display condition details.)