Stratus Weather Pro shows beautiful animated weather on your WordPress site the moment you activate it. Unlike most weather plugins, it works with no API key and no signup — weather data comes from the free Open-Meteo service. Add an OpenWeatherMap key later only if you want it.

Show current conditions, a 16-day forecast or a 48-hour hourly timeline anywhere: native Gutenberg block with live preview and city search, native Elementor widget, shortcode, or classic sidebar widget.

Hand-crafted animated SVG icons (4 sets, 56 icons) animate with pure CSS — no icon fonts, no images, no jQuery. Five polished skins with automatic light/dark mode, including an animated Aurora gradient and photo backgrounds that change with the weather.

Built for speed: weather is fetched server-side and cached, so one API request serves all your visitors. Assets load only on pages that show weather.

Smart extras: automatic visitor geolocation (browser or IP, privacy-aware), air quality index badges, and weather-based display rules — show any content only when it rains, snows, or the temperature crosses a threshold. Perfect for shops, restaurants, hotels, travel and news sites.

Includes full documentation, translation-ready strings (.pot), RTL support, and theme template overrides for developers.

• Works instantly — no API key required (Open-Meteo provider); OpenWeatherMap supported too
• Native Gutenberg block with live preview and in-editor city search
• Native Elementor widget, shortcode and classic sidebar widget
• 4 layouts: current-conditions card, daily forecast, 48-hour hourly timeline, compact one-liner
• Up to 16-day forecast with precipitation probability, humidity, wind, pressure, sunrise/sunset
• Automatic visitor geolocation: browser (HTML5, cache-friendly) or IP-based (privacy-aware)
• Air quality index (US AQI) badges with color-coded levels
• Weather-based display rules: show any content only when it rains, snows, is clear, day/night or above/below a temperature
• 56 hand-crafted animated SVG icons in 4 sets (Fill, Line, Mono, Gradient) — pure CSS animation, no jQuery
• 5 skins (Sky, Minimal, Glass, Aurora, Slate) with automatic light/dark mode + per-condition photo backgrounds
• Server-side caching — one API call serves all visitors; assets load only where weather is shown
• Unlimited weather widgets per page, each with its own location, layout, skin and units (°C/°F)
• Developer friendly: theme template overrides, CSS variables, hooks/filters, REST endpoints
• Translation-ready (.pot included), RTL support, WordPress multisite compatible
• Clean uninstall — removes all options and cached data

• WordPress 6.0 or newer (tested up to 7.0)
• PHP 7.4 or newer (tested up to 8.3)
• No API key needed for the default Open-Meteo provider; a free OpenWeatherMap API key only if you choose that provider
• Elementor (free) only if you want to use the Elementor widget — everything works without it

1. In WordPress go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, choose stratus-weather-pro.zip, install and activate.
2. Done — weather works immediately with no API key. Add the "Stratus Weather" block to any page, drag the Elementor widget, or use the [stratus_weather] shortcode.
3. Optionally visit Settings → Stratus Weather to set your default location (with instant city search), units, skin, icon set and cache duration.
4. Pro tab: enable visitor geolocation, air quality badges, per-condition photo backgrounds and custom CSS.

Full HTML documentation with a shortcode reference and examples is included in the download (docs folder).