A pie chart cuts angles by size. A polar area chart keeps every slice the same angle and lets the radius do the talking instead.
It reads a little like a pie chart bent into rings, and it is entered exactly like Pie — one field, always proportional.
For every Dynamic Device setting in one place, see the Advanced Charts block guide.
Before You Start
- Edition: Pro — the Advanced Charts block needs Nexter Blocks Pro.
- Block to enable: Advanced Chart, switched on under Nexter > Blocks in your WordPress dashboard.
- Every value is typed, separated by a pipe (
|). Labels, one row of series data, colours — all of it is a single line of text with|between the parts, not a spreadsheet-style grid.
Steps
- Add the Advanced Charts block and choose a chart Style.
- Type your axis labels into Label Values, separated by
|.
- Set Style to Polar Area.
- Type your slice names into Label Values.
- Open Datasets and type one value per slice into Data, pipe-separated.
Polar Area uses the same single Data field as plain Pie — measured, no repeater, no trap.
How It Behaves
- Every slice gets the same angle — the value only changes how far the slice reaches from the centre, not how wide it is.
- Always proportional, unlike Doughnut — there is only one field to enter data into, so there is no equivalent of the doughnut trap here.
- Grid Lines apply to the radial axis on a polar area chart, giving it the ring guides visible in the background.
- Spaces around the pipe show up in the chart. Measured:
Q1 | Q2renders the labelsQ1andQ2, trailing space included. Type your values with no space around the|for a tidy result.
Limitations
- With very different values, the largest slice can dominate the chart visually more than a pie chart would.
- Works best with a handful of slices — many thin wedges become hard to compare.
- Data is typed, not linked to a spreadsheet or external source.
Troubleshooting
My chart is blank
Check Label Values and Data have the same number of pipe-separated items.
One slice dominates the whole chart
That is expected when one value is much larger than the rest — consider a regular Pie chart if the values span a very wide range.
