Ventus – Weather Map Widget & Shortcode
Easily customise and embed the windy.com widget as a native WordPress widget or shortcode.
4.9(13 reviews)
·3.0K+ active installs·Updated 11 months agoAs of April 2026, Ventus is a WordPress map plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 13 reviews. It has been downloaded 24K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: WP Go Maps (formerly WP Google Maps).
4.9/513 reviews
3.0K+active installs
24K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019
Overview
Ventus allows you to easily embed the windy.com widget on your website, in the form of a native WordPress widget (accessible from Appearance > Widgets) or as a simple shortcode.
It is a lightweight plugin built using an object-oriented approach, and follows WordPress Coding Standards.
Features
- Set the overlay to either clouds, CO concentration, currents, radar/lightning, rain, sea temperature, snow cover, standard temperature, waves, wind or wind gusts.
- Use either Celsius or Fahrenheit as the temperature scale.
- Set the width, height and border-radius using responsive (%) and/or fixed (px) values.
- Manually define longitude and latitude for precise location coordinates.
- Select the altitude from surface up to 13.5km (effective only when layer is set to wind or temperature).
- Choose from 8…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Una maravilla escondida
by belkcar·7 months ago
Todo en uno, con bricks off canvas y el shortcode así: [ventus width=”100svw” height=”100svh” radius=”0px” loading=”lazy” lat=”-42.754867″ lon=”-65.046483″ zoom=”10″ layer=”wind” level=”surface” scale=”C” units=”km/h” pressure=”true” marker=”true” model=”ecmwf” forecast=”true” time=”12″] queda un fullscreen de lujo.
empleado en canal12web.com
Very useful as a shortcode
by Dan·11 months ago
I use this on two sites (eg. ontarioskitrails.com) and this plugin lets me add the weather for each location as a shortcode. Wonderful and helpful!
And Windy.com is the best most full featured weather source I know.
Nice weather plugin
by designsbybob80·2 years ago
Nice weather plugin. It’s very easy to use. Simple to install and very lightweight.
Great Weather Plugin
by webb64b·3 years ago·1 reply
This weather plug-in is great, I used this to work with an ACF Google Map field. I wrote a snippet to take the longitude and latitude from the Google map field and display the weather for the location.
Easy to use
by twgerber·3 years ago·1 reply
Love the plugin. It’s very easy to use. Simple and lightweight.
Thank you
Download Trends
Today: 14Yesterday: 6This week: 58Period total: 3K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.5
94.4%
Other
5.6%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.5.0
- Added feature to select different altitude levels (from the surface up to 13.5km).
- Added feature to choose between different forecast models (ecmwf, gfs, iconEu, icon, nems).
- New layer/overlay types: currents and wind gusts.
- Adjustments to widget layout.
- Added Italian translation (shout out to Marco Simonetti for the assist!).
Contributors
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