Not exactly a solution, but you could consider a different plugin – weathericon: http://www.sonicpling.net/archives/2005/03/12/weathericon-20/ uses metar data from your nearest airport (St Johns is CYYT) which should solve your problem. You can see what it can do on my blog.
and welcome to wp too š
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Ennis
(@ennis)
thanks but i found with weather icon 2, which i also used recently, that the weather data is not always available you have that problem?
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Ennis
(@ennis)
and for some reason my .pngs under the wicons folder won’t show up…. š
Sometimes the weather data (i presume the server) goes down, normally it is ok though. As for the icons, I would check that you have it set to show icons, that path is correct and that the permissions are ok too.
And that the images were uploaded in binary format…
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Ennis
(@ennis)
…ummmm…..yes…….actually it was auto
edit: I uploaded them again in binary, but all i get now is a white space
http://www.thisisennis.com/about.php
Under current weather, I can see
St. John's, NL
Weather data not available
Which is what I get when the cache file is empty/ not writing. Check the cache folder inside weathericon is chmoded to 777.
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Ennis
(@ennis)
thats done. see: Cache Text File
but the other images show up, doesn’t make any sense that the .pngs don’t
thats done. So the metar.txt is in the cache folder (and has some content)?
As for the png’s not working, im not sure, as I use the gif’s. The pngs work on my local install though.
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Ennis
(@ennis)
yup i just edited it sorry.
Odd. It doesn’t seem to be permissions are I can view the png’s in the folder. All I can suggest is you check the paths to the images and cache folders are correct, or using the gif’s for now. It is probably worth dropping a note to the author too. I’m running out of ideas.
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Ennis
(@ennis)
thanks for your help anyway. appreciate it
Shame you can’t get the png’s to show. At least some weather data is showing now though.
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Ennis
(@ennis)
ya wish the pngs would work..
are there any alternate gifs or images on any sites that i can use?
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Ennis
(@ennis)
know what else is weird, the .pngs show up in Internet Explorer but not firefox
