Octopress Openweathermap

Aside to display weather current conditions in the sidebar of your Octopress site.

Live example at stombi.net.

Setup

1. Copy openweathermap.html to your _includes/custom/asides directory.

2. Grab an API key at openweathermap.org (it's free)

3. Update your _config.yml file to include openweathermap_* variables as shown in example below which is also in the provided _config.yml file:

    # Weather
    # API key
    openweathermap_key: 
    # H1 title
    openweathermap_title: Weather
    # City name
    openweathermap_city_name: Los Angeles
    # Units : metric or imperial
    openweathermap_units: imperial
    # Lang : en, ru, it, sp, ua, de, pt, ro, pl, fi, nl, fr, bg, se, zh_tw, zh_cn, tr 
    openweathermap_lang: en
    # cache data to localStorage n seconds
    openweathermap_cache: 3600
   

4. Add openweathermap.html to your default_asides variable in the _config.yml settings file. Example:

   default_asides: [custom/asides/openweathermap.html, custom/asides/about.html, asides/twitter.html, asides/recent_posts.html]

5. Regenerate your blog