Chris Kindred

@ericathumma
The newest version of the plugin (22.05.01) includes a new action that runs after the location title but before the values are listed out. This would provide you with a great place to echo content based on a value or a site is that is being displayed. Let me know if that ends up working well for your situation.

I cannot recreate the issue on any of my test or live sites running the plugin. I am assuming that you are able to install and activate other plugins without any issue. This could be pretty difficult to track down but I am happy to troubleshoot it with you.

Do you mind providing more information about your environment (WordPress Version, Active Plugin List with versions, Theme with version, PHP version, and host)?

Thanks!

The plugin doesn’t store the data locally, just queries the data from the API endpoint as needed.

Glad you got it figured out. Thanks for letting everyone know. I will mark this as resolved.

I use a transient to cache the request for 12 hours. There is a way to clear all the transients through the WP CLI but that will affect the site speed if you get a lot of traffic. Depending on your host and how they handle transients, but unless you are running an object cache like Memcached or Redis your transients are stored in the database and won’t be affected by the server page caching options.

Sounds to me like I need a new feature that allows the user to set the caching time. I’ll see about adding that in with a future update.

@randolrf I just added the location to a test page on my site and it is showing the correct data points (31800 ft³/s, 13.38 ft). The data gets cached in a transient on the site in order to keep from querying the site on each page load. I am thinking that it might be showing a cached value. The cache should expire every 12 hours but I am thinking about making the total cache time as part of the shortcode attributes.

https://www.kindredwebconsulting.com/wp-plugins/

Thanks for reaching out and I am happy to look into it. Can you provide me with the version of WordPress and the plugin that you are using as well as a list of the other plugins you are using on the site?

Thanks for the suggestion! I will add it to the backlog and hopefully get it in for a future update.

The plugin uses a wrapper div with the class of KWC_USGS. You can target any of the text with CSS by referencing this class including the font.

Example:

div.KWC_USGS h3.header {
    font-family: serif;
    font-size: 16px;
}