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wp-forecast for WordPress
4.1(24 reviews)4,000 installs By tuxlog
wp-forecast is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by tuxlog. With a rating of 4.1★ from 24 reviews, it currently ranks #66 in the Widget category.
wp-forecast is the #66 ranked Widget app on WordPress, with a 4.1 average rating from 24 reviews, as of Sep 11, 2026.
wp-forecast ranks #66 of 781 in Widget on WordPress. It holds a 4.1★ average from 24 reviews on WordPress.
Pros
- No standout positives in the measured data.
Cons
- −Only 24 reviews — the average can still move with a few new ratings
How wp-forecast works
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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:
Displays the weather data from Open-Meteo.com and OpenWeatherMap.com
at your wordpress pages, posts or sidebar
Displays OpenUV.io data
Let you choose the
location (of course)
the time after the weather data is refreshed
the langugage
metric or american measures
windspeed unit
the forecast days
the forecast for up to six/seven days
support wordpress widgets, easy placement 🙂
customize the information you want to show
supports pull-down forecast data to efficiently use space
multiple wp-forecast widget support
integration into your site via css (see below)
comes with an api for wordpress-pro’s 😉
Barbary Jany testing a lot and bring it to valid XHTML
Frans Lieshout, Wim Scholtes translation to dutch
Luís Reis translation to portugues
Susanne Svensso translation to swedish
Gabriele von der Ohe translation to german with entities (for iso-8859-1 or latin1 blogs)
Martin Loyer/Jean-Pierre translation to french
Robert Lang language file for en_US
Detti Giulio/Stefano Boeri translation to italian
Eilif Nordseth translation to norwegian
Michael S.R. Petersen translation to dansk
Jaakko Kangosjärvi translation to finish
Lukasz “linshi” Linhard translation to polish
Castmir & Alejandro translation to spanish
Tamas Koos translation to hungarian
Valeria Pellegrini translation to russian
Valentina Boeri translation to romanian
Roland Geci translation to slovak
Pavel Soukenik translation to czech
Pavel Karnaukhov translation to ukraine
Zoran Maric translation to serbian (latin)
Petar Petrov translation to bulgarian
Udi Burg translation to hebrew
Uli Kozok translation to indonesian
Ali Zemani translation to persian
Amizda Idriz translation to bosnian
Lovrenco Vladislavić translation to croatian
All the others giving feedback about missing features and bugs.
Thank you very much for your contribution to wp-forecast.
Weather Icon Font by me Erik FLowers Weather Icons licensed under SIL OFL 1.1
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
<?php if(function_exists(wp_forecast)) {
wp_forecast( <widget_id> );
You have to replace <widget_id> with the choosen widget id.
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.
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
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
Translations
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
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
To use your own translation, a different one as the default just rename the
appropriate file wp-forecast_-.po and
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
Standardized capabilities
AppRanks hasn't mapped this app to standardized capabilities yet. The developer's own feature list is shown above.
Ratings and reviews
4.1
24 reviews on WordPress
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Where wp-forecast stands in the Widget category
wp-forecast ranks #66 of 781 apps in the Widget category, placing it in the top 9% of the listing.
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What is wp-forecast?
wp-forecast is a WordPress app by tuxlog, listed in Widget. It holds a 4.1-star average from 24 reviews on WordPress.
Where does wp-forecast rank on WordPress?
wp-forecast ranks #66 of 781 apps in Widget on WordPress.