PDS Weather

PDS Weather shows current conditions in your area using the OpenWeatherMap API (free tier).

The plugin fetches and displays:

• Current weather description
• Current temperature (°C and/or °F)
• “Feels like” temperature
• Weather font icon (optional)
• City name display (optional)
• Air Quality Index (optional)
• UV Index (optional)

Data is cached for one hour to minimize API calls.

New in 4.5.3:

• Manual colour mode — choose Auto (follows the visitor’s browser/system preference, as before), Always light, or Always dark under PDS Weather > Appearance. Useful when Auto dark mode doesn’t match your site’s own (always-light or always-dark) design.

New in 4.5.0:

• Automatic Dark Mode — the widget adapts to the visitor’s browser colour-scheme preference (with an OS-preference fallback when JavaScript is disabled). No configuration required.
• Air Quality Index — optionally display the Air Quality Index from the OpenWeatherMap Air Pollution API (e.g. “Air Quality: 2 (Fair)”).
• UV Index — optionally display the UV Index value (e.g. “UV Index: 5.2”).
• Custom CSS editor — a new Appearance tab lets you add your own CSS to style the widget without editing plugin files.

Requirements:

• A free OpenWeatherMap API key — Get one here

Setup:

1. Go to PDS Weather > Settings in your WordPress admin.
2. Enter your OpenWeatherMap API key.
3. Select your country and enter your city name.
4. Choose display options (icon, degrees, feels like, weather label, city name).
5. Save settings.

Display options:

1. Use the PDS Weather Gutenberg block in the Block Editor.
2. Use the PDS Weather classic widget (Appearance > Widgets).
3. Use the [pdsweather] shortcode in any post or page.
4. Or call <?php echo pdsweather_display(); ?> in your theme template.
5. Legacy function pdsWeather() is still supported for backward compatibility.