icons-ecast hosed

My icons have been impacted to as has everyones I guess. Can you elaborate how you updated the wunderground.php to use different icons?

You need to edit the WP Wunderground plugin, or wait for an official plugin update.

If your impatient like myself:

Log into the back of your site WordPress login.
Select “Plugins>Editor”.

The file you need to edit is wunderground.php (After selecting ‘WP Wunderground’).

Find all instances of http://icons-ecast.wxug.com/ and replace them with http://icons-ak.wxug.com/

This is easier done if you copy and paste the code into a code editor, Sublime text for instance as you can use the ‘find and replace’ feature. (then you can just paste the code back in browser, and save.)

Hi LingoSam,

No i did understand you 🙂 and made the correct entries.

I’ve actually used the short-codes option with custom formatting although this should still work.

EDIT: Re-installed the plugin made the changes again and it’s now working..

Bizzare..

Agree with your comment – free bandwidth is probably the issue – I may just re-code the PHP to use local images – as this new server may go offline soon as well.

Thanks for all your help mate – appreciated 🙂

Can I just download these icons and serve them up from my WP install?

Not a problem. I’ve got to say like most people once i’ve fixed my problem, i’m outta there.

I made the changes and my icons now appear. However, the “incredible” set of icons are not appearing. That was my selection so I just changed to default.
Anyone else trying “incredible”?

I am using the ‘incredible’ theme. (Others looked rotten in my humble opinion!)
It must be being cached somewhere, like what racer x has noted.

Either the plugin cache, or you might possibly have a WordPress site cache plugin like W3 total cache etc.

I completely agree racer x. I’m much happier using my own servers bandwidth than essentially hotlinking the original site. I would happily add them to my own if I could get access to the full set.

How about just using the option of uploading your own icon set and allowing to pull form sever in which your site resides? In the wp-wunderground text file, it gives “instructions” how to do this, but it doesn’t make entire sense to me. here is what the text doc says:

If you want to use your own icons, you would add a filter to the bottom of your theme’s functions.php file:

<h3>Version 1.2+</h3>

add_filter('wp_wunderground_forecast_icon', 'use_custom_wunderground_icons');

function use_custom_wunderground_icons($content=null) { 

	$myIconFolder = 'http://www.example.com/images/';

	$myFileType = '.gif';

	$content = preg_replace('/http\:\/\/icons\-ecast\.wxug\.com\/i\/c\/[a-z]\/(.*?)\.gif/ism', $myIconFolder.'$1'.$myFileType, $content);

	return $content;
}

<h3>Version 1.1</h3>

add_filter('wp_wunderground_forecast', 'use_custom_wunderground_icons');

function use_custom_wunderground_icons($content=null) { 

	$myIconFolder = 'http://www.example.com/images/';

	$myFileType = '.gif';

	$content = preg_replace('/http\:\/\/icons\-ecast\.wxug\.com\/i\/c\/[a-z]\/(.*?)\.gif/ism', $myIconFolder.'$1'.$myFileType, $content);

	return $content;
}

Can anyone make better sense of this? What do I name the actual icons?

Also, from the Wunderground site, vague reference is given here to adding a set of icons. Click here to view the post.

@wdesousa – You beat me to it! I was just about to answer! hehe.

This is a very strange method IMO. Why do all that preg_replace before output when there could have been one simple field in the settings for your own image path that would override the default path?

Oh well. Maybe next version. I do like the plugin.