by David Matthew 4.9 (13 reviews)

Ventus - Weather Map Widget & Shortcode

Name: Ventus - Weather Map Widget & Shortcode
Rating: 4.9 (13 reviews)
Author: David Matthew

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

Ventus ranks #4,096 among WordPress.org plugins with 3,000+ active installations, is #601 of 8,538 in the Customization category, a 4.9/5 rating from 13 reviews, and was last updated May 3, 2025. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.8 (Current: 7.1)

vtrunk Current Version vtrunk

Updated 1 year ago Last Update on 03 May, 2025

Refreshed 11 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#601 of 8,538 in Customization Top 5% by installs Downloads +9.7% this week No update in over a year

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#4,096

-2 this week

Active Installs

3K+

-21.5%

KW Avg Position

30.6

0.2 worse

Downloads

24.9K

+9 today

Support Resolved

— No change

Rating

98%

Review 4.9 out of 5

4.9 (13 reviews)

Next Milestone 4K

Total Progress 81.8%

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Plugin Details

Version: trunk
Last Updated: May 03, 2025
Requires WP: 5.0+
Tested Up To: 6.8
PHP Version: 7.0 or higher
Author: David Matthew

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9
Reviews: 13
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

Ventus is for WordPress site owners who want to display live weather/wind maps from windy.com on their website. It solves the need to embed and customize a windy.com map widget without custom coding, via a native widget or shortcode with configurable location, zoom, layer, and units.

Native WordPress widget support
Shortcode embedding ([ventus])
Multiple weather overlay layers
Celsius or Fahrenheit scale
Custom width, height, border-radius
Manual latitude/longitude coordinates
Adjustable altitude levels
Multiple forecast models (ECMWF, ICON, GFS)

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Ventus - Weather Map Widget & Shortcode

This can happen sometimes with the shortcode if you wrap the longitude or latitude attributes in the wrong kind of quote marks. Mark sure you are using " " rather than ” ”, e.g. Correct: lat="44.096" Incorrect: lat=”44.096”

The easiest (and recommended) way to do this is to go straight to windy.com. Once there, take note of the URL. It will contain the latitude and longitude in its parameters, and if you zoom in, it will also contain the zoom level. For example, the sample parameters I use as defaults are: latitude 53.199, longitude -7.603, and a zoom level of 5. These would show in the URL in the following format: windy.com/?53.199,-7.603,5.

If you'd prefer to do this, that's great - no problem! However, this plugin was created to make the iframe that windy.com kindly provide even more useful. To that end, it offers the following advantages: While an iframe can be inserted directly into a page or post, you can't insert an iframe directly into the WordPress widgets area (which is how most themes allow you to set the content for site sidebars and footers etc). This plugin allows you to do precisely that. And even in the case of an iframe inserted into a page or post, the generated code can often confuse people who don't have any technical/programming experience. The shortcode provided by this plugin simplifies this considerably, making it readable and easy to customise by anyone. You can change the default overlay from wind to either clouds, CO concentration, sea temperature, snow cover, standard temperature, radar/lightning, rain, or waves. Width and height can be set to responsive (percentage-based) as well as fixed (pixel-based) values.