WordPress is a great platform for developers of content.  It has a lot of flexibility and a growing community of developers who have built a large range of plugins to extends it usefulness. This is why I use and recommend WordPress for all my sites.

So when I started to think about charting sensor data from my IoT devices, I started by looking at what WordPress plugins I could use. I found two data charting\graphing plugins that looked very promising.

1.  Visualizer

Visualizer also know as WordPress Graphs and Charts, is a free plugin that lets you create, manage, and embed interactive charts into your WordPress posts and pages.

It comes with 9 different chart types that are fully customisable and easy to use for data graphing. It uses the Google Visualization API under the hood to make things work.

Here is a sample from a temperature sensor.

2. M Chart

M Chart is another great free WordPress plugin. It allows you to manage data sets via a spreadsheet interface and present that data in chart form via the Highcharts chart library. The charts can then be embedded into a regular post via a handy shortcode.

Here is a sample from a temperature sensor.

I am doing further investigations into both of the plugins to see if I can dynamically update data on a regular schedule. Stay tuned!