Aviation Weather from NOAA

Contributors: machouinard, ranchhand6

Tags: aviation, metar, pireps, weather, noaa

Requires at least: 3.8

Tested up to: 5.3.2

Stable tag: 0.7.1

License: GPLv2 or later

License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Aviation weather data from NOAA's Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDS)

Description

• Display METAR & TAF info from NOAA's Aviation Digital Data Service
• Display up to 6 hours before now
• PIREPs up to 200sm
• Create multiple instances using either widget or shortcode
• WP-CLI Integration

Gutenberg Block

A new AWFN Block can be found in the Widgets section.

Shortcode Usage: ( shown with defaults )

[adds_weather apts='KSMF' hours=2 show_metar=1 show_taf=1 show_pireps=1 show_station_info=1 radial_dist=100 title='']

Data is cached for 30 minutes using the WordPress Transients API.

Included Filter Hooks:

• adds_kses: Array of permitted HTML tags.
• adds_custom_css: URL of a user-supplied stylesheet. Supplying a stylesheet in theme's directory ( 'css/aviation_weather_from_noaa.css' ) will also override stylesheet.

Styling

• Copy css/aviation_weather_from_noaa.css from plugin directory into theme directory, keeping that file structure.
• Make desired changes.
• Plugin will load this stylesheet instead of its own.

Code and support available at GitHub

Installation

Manual Installation

1. Upload the entire /aviation-weather-from-noaa directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate Aviation Weather from NOAA through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

WP_CLI Installation

wp plugin install aviation-weather-from-noaa --activate

WP_CLI Configuration

wp awfn --help

Frequently Asked Questions

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Support will be made available at the GitHub Repo

Changelog

0.7.2

• Fix minification issue preventing metar and pirep sections from expanding.
• Use Gulp to minify JS

0.7.1

• Upgrade FontAwesome to v5

0.7.0

• Treat radial_dist and hours_before_now and their defaults as strings to fix block error
• Fix admin styling issue with Title only being 100px wide

0.6.0

• Added Gutenberg Block

0.5.1

• Update add_management_page() args to prevent PHP notice

0.5.0

• Still caching data but loading via Ajax to get around CDN issues
• Fix PHP notices

0.4.0

• Separate functionality into individual classes
• Improve use of transients and options including deletion on uninstall
• Only display most recent METAR & TAF
• Add decoded METAR
• Show/hide decoded METAR and PIREPS
• WP-CLI Integration with error logging
• Removed filter hooks for styling wrappers

0.3.8

• Add ability to not display Metar
• Add check for PHP version 3.3

0.3.7

• Add styling
• Add hooks to filter styling
• Add option for theme supplied stylesheet

0.3.6

• Add unit tests

0.3.5

• Cast values as bool instead of using boolval(), which requires PHP >= 5.5

0.3.4a

• Remove local development files from SVN ( basically v0.3.3 without the extra files )

0.3.3

• Fix code that was preventing TAF from displaying
• Fix transients not being deleted on update
• Add check for USA, Canada and Australia if 3 characters entered for ICAO

0.3.1

• Refactor per WordPress coding standards
• Replace cURL and allow_url_fopen() with wp_remote_get()
• Add check to limit hours before now to 6 in shortcode
• Add checks for empty/missing values
• Better sanitizing

0.3.0

• Added ability to use cURL if allow_url_fopen() is disabled

0.2.7

• Fixed readme errors
• Added GitHub link

0.2.6

• Added transients API so we don't hit NOAA with every page load

0.2.4

• Added custom title to widget + shortcode

0.2.0

• Added ability to hide or display TAF
• Added shortcode

0.1.0

• First release

Upgrade Notice

0.7.2

• Fix expanded display of metar and pireps.