Weather Map Widget

Easily embed the windy.com widget as a native WordPress widget or shortcode.

Author:	David Matthew (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:	5.0
WordPress version tested:	6.5
Plugin version:	1.5.0
Added to WordPress repository:	10-08-2019
Last updated:	20-03-2024
Rating, %:	98
Rated by:	11
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Total downloads:	19 867
Active installs:	3 000+
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Ventus allows you to easily embed the windy.com widget on your website, in the form of a native WordPress widget (accessible from Appearance > Widgets) or as a simple shortcode.

It is a lightweight plugin built using an object-oriented approach, and follows WordPress Coding Standards.

Features

Set the overlay to either clouds, CO concentration, currents, radar/lightning, rain, sea temperature, snow cover, standard temperature, waves, wind or wind gusts.
Use either Celsius or Fahrenheit as the temperature scale.
Set the width, height and border-radius using responsive (%) and/or fixed (px) values.
Manually define longitude and latitude for precise location coordinates.
Select the altitude from surface up to 13.5km (effective only when layer is set to wind or temperature).
Choose from 8 levels of zoom (min. 3, max. 11).
Show or hide pressure isolines, the map marker and spot forecast.
Choose from the following wind measurement units: beaufort (bft), kilometers per hour (km/h), knots (kt), meters per second (m/s) and miles per hour (mph).
Choose from the following forecast models: ECMWF, ICON, ICON-EU, GFS and NEMS.
Set the forecast time from now to 12 or 24 hours ahead.

Shortcodes

The shortcode accepts up to 16 attributes. You can simply use [ventus] and it will work (or the old shortcode [weather-map] which will continue to work), but you will most likely want to customise the remaining attributes yourself.

An example of a fully filled-out shortcode would be:

[ventus width="100%" height="350px" radius="20px" loading="lazy" lat="53.199" lon="-7.603" zoom="4" layer="wind" level="surface" scale="C" units="knots" pressure="true" marker="true" model="ecmwf" forecast="true" time="12"]

The attributes can be set as follows:

The width attribute accepts any valid CSS property for width.
The height attribute accepts any valid CSS property for height.
The radius attribute accepts any valid CSS property for border-radius.
The loading attribute accepts either lazy or eager. The default is lazy loading.
The lat attribute must contain a string of digits to three decimal places, in the range of -90 to +90 (e.g. “53.199”).
The lon attribute must also contain a string of digits to three decimal places, in the range of -180 to +180 (e.g. “-120.894”).
The zoom attribute must contain a number between 3 and 11 (inclusive).
The layer attribute accepts the following values: clouds, cosc (CO concentration), currents, gust, radar, rain, snowcover, sst (sea temperature), temp (standard temperature), waves and wind.
The level attribute (only effective when the layer is wind or temp) accepts the following values: surface, 100m, 950h (600m), 925h (750m), 900h (900m), 850h (1500m), 800h (2000m), 700h (3000m), 600h (4200m), 500h (5500m), 400h (7000m), 300h (9000m), 250h (10000m), 200h (11700m) and 150h (13500m).
The scale attribute accepts either “C” or “F”, defining Celsius and Fahrenheit respectively.
The units attribute accepts the following values: bft (beaufort), km/h (kilometers per hour), kt (knots), m/s (meters per second) and mph (miles per hour).
The pressure attribute can be set to true to display pressure isolines, otherwise the isolines will remain hidden.
The marker attribute can also be set to true, otherwise it will remain hidden.
The forecast attribute can be set to true to display the spot forecast, otherwise it will remain hidden.
The time attribute accepts the following values: now (the default), 12 (12 hours from now) and 24 (24 hours from now).
The model attribute accepts the following values: ecmwf, icon, iconEu, gfs and nems.