Weather Forecast Shortcode

Registers a shortcode for fetching weather forecast from yr.no

Author:Knut Sparhell and Lennart André Rolland (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:3.0.1
WordPress version tested:3.5
Plugin version:1.4
Added to WordPress repository:22-10-2012
Last updated:07-11-2012
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Plugin URI:http://nytt-nettsted.no/yr/
Total downloads:4 849
Active installs:100+
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Weather forecasts from yr.no, delivered by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MI) and the Norwegian national public broadcasting company (NRK). Registers a shortcode [yr] to display a weather forecast for a place (or city) as a table on any page or post, based on url found manually on yr.no. It covers more than 9 million places all over the world, including about 900 000 places in Norway alone. Specific resorts and hotels included. This plugin is enturely based on free and public weather data, but follows the terms and conditions required by yr.no.

It uses an updated edition of the original script yr.php v 2.6 by Lennart André Rolland at NRK in 2008.

For upgrade problems, see 'Installation' tab.