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Weather Map Widget

Ventus – Weather Map Widget & Shortcode

by David Matthew · WordPress.org page

v1.5.0 Tested up to WP 6.8.8 PHP 7.0+

Weather Map Widget has 3,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 26,228 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on May 3, 2025, tested up to WordPress 6.8.8.

Weather Map Widget at a glance

Active installs
3,000+
Total downloads
26,228
Downloads, last 30 days
–
available after 30 days of tracking
30-day growth
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tracking since September 4, 2026

Is Weather Map Widget well maintained?

Support threads resolved
No open threads
nothing waiting on the WordPress.org forum
WordPress compatibility
Behind
tested up to WordPress 6.8.8, not yet with the current 7.1
One-star reviews
0%
0 of 13 reviews on WordPress.org

Features

The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.

  • Set the overlay to either clouds, CO concentration, currents, radar/lightning, rain, sea temperature, snow cover, standard temperature, waves, wind or wind…
  • 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

Weather Map Widget reviews and ratings

13 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.

All reviews
4.9 out of 5

13 reviews

5★
12
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1★
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  • Una maravilla escondida

    Todo en uno, con bricks off canvas y el shortcode así: [ventus width="100svw" height="100svh" radius="0px" loading="lazy" lat="-42.754867" lon="-65.046483" zoom="10" layer="wind" level="surface" scale="C" units="km/h" pressure="true" marker="true" model="ecmwf" forecast="true" time="12"] queda un fullscreen de lujo.empleado en canal12web.com

    belkcar

  • Very useful as a shortcode

    I use this on two sites (eg. ontarioskitrails.com) and this plugin lets me add the weather for each location as a shortcode. Wonderful and helpful! And Windy.com is the best most full featured weather source I know.

    Dan

  • Nice weather plugin

    Nice weather plugin. It's very easy to use. Simple to install and very lightweight.

    designsbybob80

  • Great Weather Plugin

    This weather plug-in is great, I used this to work with an ACF Google Map field. I wrote a snippet to take the longitude and latitude from the Google map field and display the weather for the location.

    webb64b

  • Easy to use

    Love the plugin. It's very easy to use. Simple and lightweight. Thank you

    twgerber

  • This one is the BEST!

    I have probably tried over half a dozen weather plugins. None of them compare to this one for ease of setting up and for an incredible amount of information. I can't believe it isn't a premium plugin because it would certainly be worth the money. Thank you so much for a truly awesome plugin!!!!

    ma3ry

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Details

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

The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.

Tags

  • forecast
  • map
  • ventus
  • weather
  • windy

More from David Matthew

Version
1.5.0
Last updated
May 3, 2025
First published
Aug 10, 2019
Requires WordPress
5.0
Tested up to
6.8.8
Requires PHP
7.0
Pricing
Free on WordPress.org

Weather Map Widget FAQ

What does Weather Map Widget do?

According to its WordPress.org readme, Weather Map Widget offers Set the overlay to either clouds, CO concentration, currents, radar/lightning, rain, sea temperature, snow cover, standard temperature, waves, wind or wind, 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 and Select the altitude from surface up to 13.5km (effective only when layer is set to wind or temperature).

How many active installs does Weather Map Widget have?

WordPress.org reports 3,000+ active installs for Weather Map Widget as of September 7, 2026.

Is Weather Map Widget still maintained?

The last release was on May 3, 2025, more than a year ago. WordPress.org shows a warning on plugins that go this long without an update.

Is Weather Map Widget free?

Weather Map Widget is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.