I released the latest version of the NOAA Weather widget today. It is version 1.1.0 and it includes a re-written core that uses WordPress functions to retrieve the weather instead of using PHP’s curl functionality. This should make the widget more compatible with servers that didn’t include curl with their PHP installation. The new version is available in the WordPress plugin repository.
I had a couple people make me aware that occasionally the icon wouldn’t display in the widget. Through some digging I found out that NOAA doesn’t have an icon for every weather condition they may report. For example, in my area I lost the icon when the weather conditions were “Snow Freezing Fog and Windy”….
I changed the URI’s and email information in the widget files. I had this domain for a while and forgot to change it in the widget.
This version fixed a problem where NOAA changed the url where the XML file is retrieved from. This caused the weather not to update. If after installing the update you get “Weather Unavailable or invalid NOAA code.” then deactivate and reactivate the plugin. I will fix this in the next version.
I had a couple people let me know that the icon would sometimes be broken. I did some investigating and found that the icon data in the XML file was sometimes missing and even bad. It appears that NOAA uses the weather conditions to cross-reference to the icon, and there were some conditions not accounted…