Location Weather – Best Weather Forecast Plugin

About Location Weather – Best Weather Forecast Widget Plugin for WordPress

Location Weather is a WordPress weather forecast plugin that allows you to create and display unlimited weather forecasts on your website. It uses the Open Weather Map API to retrieve weather data and offers a wide range of customization features to make your weather forecasts relevant to your audience and consistent with your branding.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Location Weather?

Location Weather is a WordPress plugin that allows you to display weather widgets and blocks on your website. It uses the Open Weather Map API to retrieve weather data.

How do I use Location Weather?

You can create a weather view, pick your location, choose the weather data, and customize its appearance. The plugin generates a shortcode that you can embed in posts, pages, text widgets, or theme PHP files.

What API does Location Weather use?

Location Weather retrieves weather information from the Open Weather Map (OWM) website. You will need an Open Weather Map API key to use the plugin.

Can I display multiple weather forecasts on one page?

Yes, you can show multiple different weather forecasts on the same page using Location Weather.

How do I get an Open Weather Map API key?

You can get a free Open Weather Map API key. The plugin settings page provides instructions on how to set up an account and obtain your key.

Changelog

2.0.16 – Jan 31, 2025

Fix: Some WPCS-related warnings.
Updated: The language (.pot) file.
Removed: The unnecessary Google font.

2.0.15 – Jan 03, 2025

Improved: The plugin admin panel has been reorganized.
Improved: The Weather Layout and Templates options are moved to the top of the page.
Improved: The Shortcode section is moved to the sidebar section.

2.0.14 – Dec 02, 2024

Fix: The text domain-related deprecated warning was found with WP 6.7.1.
Tested: WordPress 6.7.1 compatibility.

2.0.13 – Nov 20, 2024

Fix: The plugin style issue for RTL sites.

2.0.12 – Nov 10, 2024

Tested: WordPress 6.7 compatibility.

2.0.11 – Oct 09, 2024

Fix: Some strings translation issue
Fix: The PHP 7.2 compatibility issue.
Updated: The language (.pot) file.
Tested: WordPress 6.6.2 compatibility.

2.0.10 – Aug 26, 2024

Fix: The weather icon and the SG Optimizer plugin lazyload conflict issue.
Fix: The visibility issue.
Fix: The warning was found rarely.
Updated: The language (.pot) file.

2.0.9 – Aug 09, 2024

Fix: The sitemap conflict issue.
Fix: The section title line height issue.
Fix: The undefined offset warning was found rarely.
Tested: WordPress 6.6.1 compatibility.

2.0.8 – May 30, 2024

Updated: The language (.pot) file.
Fix: Some Translation string issue.
Tested: WordPress 6.5.3 compatibility.

2.0.7 – Apr 04, 2024

Improved: The Color and Margin options are separated from the typography field.
Improved: The help text and the options design are improved.
Improved: Plugin menu icons are improved.
Fix: The CLS issue for a few images due to missing width height attributes of the image tag.

2.0.6 – Apr 03, 2024

Tested: WordPress 6.5 compatibility.

2.0.5 Mar – 18, 2024

New: A function ‘sp_location_weather( x )’ was added to show weather reports using any template files.
Improved: The style of the plugin options and help texts are improved.
Fix: The Subscriber could see the plugin API notice and settings and tools page links.
Tested: WordPress 6.4.3 compatibility.

2.0.4 – Jan 25, 2024

Fix: The warning was found with PHP v5.6
Fix: The style issue of the Lite vs Pro page with WordPress v5.9.8

2.0.3 – Jan 12, 2024

Improved: The Help Page buttons.
Fix: The review notice ajax issue.

2.0.2 – Jan 08, 2024

Improved: The Help Page has been redesigned to make it more user-friendly.
Fix: The undefined warning after updating to the latest version.

2.0.1 – Dec 07, 2023

New: The Cache Time and Purge Cache options.
Fix: The translation flag sign does not show in the location weather shortcode table after activation of the Polylang plugin.
Fix: Some strings are not translatable on the help page.

2.0.0 – Nov 17, 2023

New: The Weather Layout option.
New: 2 Pre-made Templates (Vertical Template One, Horizontal Template One).
New: 3 Types of Additional Data Layouts were added for the Vertical Template.
New: The option to show weather info by City ID, Zip code, and Coordinates (lat, log).
New: The Enable Icons Animation option to show animated icons or static icons.
New: The Humidity option.
New: The Clouds option.
New: Wind Gust option.
New: The Options to show icon along with weather additional data.
New: The Icon Type and Icon Color options.
New: Detailed Weather link option.
New: The Data Update Time option.
New: The Visibility Unit option to set visibility unit.
New: The Content Padding option.
New: Link To OpenWeatherMap option to make clickable Weather Attribution text.
New: The margin-top/bottom option for each element to add or reduce the gap.
New: The Box Shadow option.
New: Comport Weather Data (Pressure, Humidity, Wind) Position.
Improved: Plugin UI and UX improved.
Improved: The tooltip/help text of plugin options to make it more user-friendly.
Improved: The color of text option moved to the Typography tab.
Updated: The language(.pot) file.
Fix: Some warnings were found with PHP v8.2.
Tested: WordPress 6.4 compatibility.

1.3.11 – Oct 05, 2023

Fix: The accessibility issue of missing image alt.

1.3.10 – Sep 24, 2023

New: The loading animation during importing shortcodes.
Fix: Some warnings found with PHP v8.1 or greater.
Tested: WordPress 6.3.1 compatibility.

1.3.9 – Jul 26, 2023

Improved: The plugin translation functionality.
Updated: The language (.pot) file.
Tested: WordPress 6.3 compatibility.

1.3.8 – Jul 06, 2023

Updated: Minimum required version of WordPress for the plugin.
Tested: WordPress 6.2.2 compatibility.

1.3.7 – May 25, 2023

Fix: The background color does not show after downgrading from the pro to free version.
Fix: The warning found after downgrading from the pro to free version.

1.3.6 – Apr 13, 2023

New: Used transient for reducing open weather API call.
Fix: The warning of the undefined index which was found on the deletion of the plugin.
Tested: WordPress 6.2 compatibility.

1.3.5 – Mar 02, 2023

Fix: The CSS of Fontello icons conflict with the Fontello icons of other plugin/theme.
Fix: The warning in Legacy Widget when no shortcode yet is created.

1.3.4 – Jan 13, 2023

Improved: Plugin security improved.
Fix: Location time does not change in time.
Fix: Legacy Shortcode style issue in preview of Gutenberg widget area.

1.3.3 – Nov 16, 2022

New: UTC+13 option added to the Timezone select field.
Improved: Load dynamic style according to the shortcode on the page.
Fix: The JS warning on click export of shortcodes on the export page.
Tested: WordPress 6.1.1 compatibility.

1.3.2 – Sept 27, 2022

Fix: Few deprecated JS warnings on the plugin admin page.

1.3.1 – Jul 19, 2022

New: Live Preview feature.
Updated: WP CLI check for plugin activation redirect.
Removed: Console log found in plugin JS file.

1.3.0 – May 23, 2022

New: Elementor Addon.
New: The export-import feature.
New: The skipping cache option.
New: The custom timezone option.
Updated: The language (.pot) file.
Fix: Gutenberg block Free to Pro compatibility.
Fix: Deprecated warning of Gutenberg block.
Fix: The date translation does not work if the date format is 24.
Tested: WordPress 6.0 compatibility.

1.2.10 – Apr 30, 2022

New: Gutenberg Block to insert Location Weather shortcode.
Updated: Add shortcode page has been redesigned.
Fix: Country code cannot be overridden.
Fix: Some assets of the backend are not loaded properly when that hosting directory is different.
Removed: Unused codes from the plugin folder.

1.2.9 – Jan 26, 2022

Tested: WordPress 5.9 compatibility.

1.2.8 – Jan 15, 2022

Fix: Translation issues in a few languages (Spanish/Albanian).

1.2.7 – Dec 18, 2021

Improved: Settings page layout.

1.2.6 – Nov 05, 2021

Improved: Plugin security.
Improved: Wrong API key error massage.

1.2.5 – Jul 31, 2021

Fix: Unable to fetch city or countries name with two words issue.

1.2.4 – Jun 14, 2021

New: Date & Time format option.
Fix: Invalid city, country code, and spacing error issue.

1.2.3 – Apr 05, 2021

New: Shortcode onClick copy option.
New: Language .Pot file included.
Improved: Help page.

1.2.2 – Feb 04, 2021

Fix: Date and Time issue.

1.2.1 – Jan 08, 2021

Fix: PHP backward compatibility issue.

1.2.0 – Jan 06, 2021

New: Weather for a specific location (city & country name).
New: Custom location name (override location name).
New: Temperature unit (imperial-°F).
New: Pressure unit (Mb).
New: Wind speed unit (mph, km/p).
New: Weather widget title and it’s the margin.
New: Time format.
New: Show/hide option for weather description(conditions).
New: Show/hide option for pressure and wind.
New: Visibility, sunrise, sunset, etc.
New: Weather attribution.
New: Widget text color, border, border-radius, etc.
New: Advanced settings.
New: Custom CSS option to override styles.
New: Widget ready with shortcode selection.
New: 45 Languages supported.
Improved: Huge improvement of admin settings panel.

1.1.2 – Nov 26, 2019

Fix: WordPress 5.3 compatibility issue.

1.1.1

Fix: Weather API issue.
New: API key add option.
New: Custom CSS option.

1.1

PHP error fixed

1.0

First Release

Location Weather – Best Weather Forecast Widget Plugin for WordPress