ICIT Weather Widget (interconnect-it-weather-widget) free WordPress plugin

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ICIT Weather Widget (interconnect-it-weather-widget) free WordPress plugin by Interconnect IT, James R Whitehead, Andrew Walmsley & Miriam McNeela

Weather information is pulled from the OpenWeatherMap API. This plugin adds a widget that can be dropped into any sidebar, can be customised to suit your theme and won’t hit any usage limits.

The widget can be configured as follows:

  • API key – required to get weather data from OWM, once entered it will be saved and auto filled in future widgets
  • Country – choose the country to get weather data from. (Some countries do not have an average result for weather conditions)
  • City – Enter the name of your area to recieve the weather results. If you want to use City ID, go to OpenWeatherMaps City List.
  • Display Mode – you can choose to show either a compact view of the current weather or show the forecast for the current day and next three days.
  • Colour Style – Choose between two styles of colouring:
    • Style 1 – Primary colour: Background colour of current weather and font colour of forecast, Secondary colour: Font colour of current weather and background colour of forecast.
    • Style 2 – Primary colour: Font colour for both sections, Secondary colour: background colour of both sections.
  • Primary colour during day – use the colour picker to choose what primary colour you want during the day time.
  • Primary colour during night – use the colour picker to choose what priamry colour you want during the night time.
  • Secondary colour during day – use the colour picker to choose what secondary colour you want during the day time.
  • Secondary colour during night – use the colour picker to choose what secondary colour you want during the night time.
  • Show Temperature in Celsius – sets the temperature display to degrees celsius rather than farenheit.
  • Show weather breakdown – choose whether to display the wind, humidity and written weather condition, as well as the temperature and weather icon.
  • Show Wind Speed in mph – sets the wind speed display to mph rather than km/h.
  • Cache Time – this is the interval in minutes before the plugin refreshes the forecast data.
  • Output CSS – toggle whether the widget should output it’s own CSS.
  • Show Credit Link – this plugin is offered completely free of charge. If you’re feeling kind please leave this in to send some delicious web traffic our way

Author: Interconnect IT, James R Whitehead, Andrew Walmsley & Miriam McNeela

Plugin folder: interconnect-it-weather-widget

Tags: weather, widget

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