Wordpress Weather

In short, this page that hosts the plugin got listed with Google as having malicious code, and Google was discouraging access to the page on some browsers. Most-likely, a hacker or bot got in and left evidence that Google was able to detect. CodeCanyon has verified that no malicious code was present, has requested a review from Google, and now Google has verified that the page is clean. In the process, the plugin had to be re-submitted for approval, hence the higher price. At no point were the plugin files affected. Hopefully this is a one-time occurrence.

Thanks for the purchase btw!

No way! Visit here to get my email: http://justinendler.com/contact/, send me an email and I’ll get you the latest version. For permanent access, maybe Envato support could give access to the buyers of the previous plugin ( 3 total ). I’ve asked them about it.

The weather status text comes directly from the API and is not translatable.

Making these text strings link up with the existing translation file is a great idea. I cannot start on it for a couple weeks, but that will definitely be the focus of the next update to the plugin. You can keep up with new versions using the RSS feed on the plugin’s page.

In the meantime, with PHP , you could use an associative array to associate the API ’s term with your translated version. For instance, when the API spits out “Mostly Cloudy”, use that string as a key to your translated term in the array.

Thanks for the purchase!

You can alter the display of the forecast ( getting rid of the scrolling and using lists ) by overriding the default template files with your own versions. I added and FAQ about this here: http://codecanyon.net/item/wordpress-weather/faq/122415

This is also in readme.txt in the plugin files. My default templates use most of the weather data available from the API . After hitting the API for info, the plugin outputs all available weather data in the array called $data. You could include more data from this array in your custom template.

Thanks! Helpful!

Sure, multiple instances of the plugin set for different locations is supported. You can put multiple shortcodes in one post or create a post for each instance. Any method for getting multiple instances is fine and should work.

Working on the Set Location problem…

About limiting the forecast days: a custom template is currently how you go about limiting the number of forecast days. Is there anyone else who would like an option for this instead? Making the number of forecast days dynamic will increase load time just slightly, which is why it’s not in there now. However, if there’s an interest in this, I’ll build it in.

Set Location was breaking in this case because it relies on jQuery, which is loaded by Wordpress Weather. This particular site was loading jQuery again manually via a script tag. This will break the javascript aspects of Wordpress Weather. Loading scripts using the WP function wp_enqueue_script() avoids this problem.

The ability to use alternate icons is not built in. You can switch them out with your own using some PHP . It’s not too difficult, but it would take some work. Message me if you want to tackle it and I can get you going in the right direction.

Is this a feature others would like to see added?

It’s impossible to account for the styling going on in any one theme. The default CSS is designed for the default theme, twentyten. For now, you’ll need to override the default CSS with your own. Instructions for this are in the FAQ .

Once you get your own CSS file overriding the default, message me with a link to your site and I can offer advice.

Many people have requested some styling options in both this plugin and my Wordpress Media plugin, so the latter is undergoing an update that includes the ability to style it with no knowledge of CSS . Once that is complete and released, it’s Wordpress Weather’s turn.

Thanks for pointing out the missing entry. It will be included in the next update which is coming soon. To have it now:

Search for

'Partly Cloudy' =>  __('Partly Cloudy', Wordpress_Weather::TEXTDOMAIN),

wordpress-weather.class.php

'Partly Sunny'    =>    __('Partly Sunny', self::TEXTDOMAIN ),

#: wordpress-weather/wordpress-weather.class.php:55
msgid "Partly Sunny" 
msgstr "Your translated string" 

Let me know how it goes. Thanks.

I’m looking into it. Thanks for letting me know.

Good point. There is no functionality to save locations between visits, but adding a cookie to save locations with an eventual timeout seems reasonable to me. Does anyone disagree? I know some people really don’t like cookies.

This is an inconsistency in the API . It happens with other locations besides Dubai. For this reason, the date display is commented out in the template. If you need it to display correctly for Dubai, you could create a custom template that provides the logic for Dubai’s date. The readme file has details on how to override the default templates, but feel free to message me if you need further instruction on creating a template.

Thanks for letting me know about the images. I’ll be fixing that and submitting an update shortly.

Multiple instances of the display with different locations is supported. Here is an example: http://wordpress-weather.justinendler.com/?page_id=36