Planet Charts – A Chart Block Type for the Gutenberg Editor

Planet Charts is a WordPress plugin that provides a new chart block type for the Gutenberg editor. It makes the process of adding charts to your blog post or page extremely easy.

Planet Charts plugin comes with the following chart types:

pie
doughnut
column
stacked column
bar
stacked bar
line
smooth line
stepped line
area
stacked area
stacked stepped area
radar

Support

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Credits

Chart.js is used for rendering the charts. Chart icons icons are made by Kirby Wu from the Noun Project.

Changelog

Version 1.8 (13-01-2020)

Made the plugin to always use the bundled version of Chart.js

Version 1.7 (03-11-2019)

Fixed “Add Series” button not appearing on some chart types
Fixed non working rotation of a pie and doughnut charts
Added missing series label inside the dataset editor
Added series limit to doughnut and pie charts
Added ability to backup and restore the chart
Added the line break option to the custom label format
Added missing line width setting for smooth and stepped line charts
Changed default values for chart height and font size
Made the legend automatically move up to the top of a chart when viewing on small screens
Renamed the Help panel

Version 1.6 (05-09-2019)

Fixed non working shortcode when the block is converted to reusable block

Version 1.5 (04-09-2019)

Fixed a bug that was causing a crash when opening charts created before the 1.3 update

Version 1.4 (24-08-2019)

Replaced Chart type buttons with the dropdown
Additional chart types added: smooth line chart, stepped line chart, stacked bar chart, stacked column chart, area chart, stacked area chart, stacked stepped area chart
Updated chart icons
Renamed bar chart to column chart and horizontal bar char to bar chart
Added tooltip settings
Added shortcode support

Version 1.3 (06-08-2019)

Fixed a bug that was causing a PHP warning message to appear, when having an empty Additional CSS Class field under the Advanced settings panel
Revampled the font settings control with better look and feel
Added position setting to the Title panel
Added size and padding settings to the Legend panel
Added help text inside Data Labels panel explaining how to write custom label values
Chart Area panel was renamed to Chart Settings and its appearance was also improved
Moved the font family setting from the Font panel to the Chart Settings panel
Removed the Gridlines panel by moving gridline settings to Axis panel
Added more options to customize the gridlines
Set box shadow to none to text fields inside the Dataset editor when focused
Removed blue border from the focused text fields inside the Dataset editor
Added Help panel

Version 1.2 (02-07-2019)

Added a new chart type – Radar
Added the ability to specify the maximum width of the chart area
Fixed misalignment issue with font setting fields in the chart editor
Made the chart block to respect the Additional CSS Class property
Removed the width and height properties from the main element when the chart is in responsive mode
Updated the source code to comply with the latest WordPress coding standards