
wp-forecast as a widget with two day forecast
You are reading the readme.txt file for the wp-forecast plugin.
wp-forecast is a plugin for the famous wordpress blogging package,
showing the weather-data from open-meteo.com and/or openweathermap.com.
please also refer to the terms of usage of open-meteo.com and/or openweathermap.com.
Features:
Credits:
Weather Icon Font by me Erik FLowers Weather Icons licensed under SIL OFL 1.1
Installation:
Install via the WordPress plugin admin dialog (search for wp-forecast) or
Upload to your plugins folder, usually wp-content/plugins/, keeping
the directory structure intact (i.e. wp-forecast.php should end up
in wp-content/plugins/wp-forecast/).
Activate the plugin on the plugin screen.
Visit the configuration page (Options -> WP-forecast) to pick the
number of widgets, data to display and to change any other option.
Visit the Themes/Widgets page to place your wp-forecast widget within
your themes sidebars or insert it manually and edit your template
file and put the wp-forecast function where you want your weather
data to show up.
Example:
wp_forecast(
} ?>
You have to replace
For the first widget use wp_forecast(“A”), for the second
wp_forecast(“B”) and so on.
In most cases it is advisable to put the call into a div environment.
Optional
If you would like to have another set of icons download it
from http://accunet.accuweather.com/wx/accunet/graphics_icons.htm
and put it into the wp-content/plugins/wp-forecast/icons folder
Optional
If you would like to change the style, just edit wp-forecast.css
there are three classes div.wp-forecast for outer formatting,
table.wp-forecast for the middle part or iconpart and
wp-forecast-details for everything below the icon
wp-forecast comes with various translations, located in the directory lang.
if you would like to add a new translation, just take the file
wp-forecast.pot (in the wp-forecast main directory) copy it to
wp-forecast_-.po and edit it to add your translations
(e.g. with poedit).
Please be aware that the number codes stand for the weather-situations.
you can see the mapping in wp-forecast-en_US-en_US.po. there are also
the letters N, S, W, E they stand for the winddirections and can be
translates either.
To use your own translation, a different one as the default just rename the
appropriate file wp-forecast_-.po and
wp-forecast_-.mo
To add your translations online at the Translate WordPress project please visit
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-forecast. This should be the prefered
way from now on.