PCIO Year Wheel

Year Wheel visualises recurring annual events — birthdays, anniversaries, public holidays, seasonal deadlines — on a beautifully animated SVG wheel. Today's date is always at the top; the wheel rotates slowly anti-clockwise so you can watch events approach.

The wheel

The front-end wheel — today stays pinned at the top pointer. Hover any dot to see the event details.

The 365-day ring is divided into twelve month arcs, colour-coded warm in summer and cool in winter.
Each event appears as a red dot on the ring at the correct day of year.
When two or more events fall within a few days of each other they are staggered on different radii so none are hidden.
Hovering the SVG pauses the rotation. Move the pointer over a dot to see the event's date, title and description.
The hub in the centre shows the total number of events.
The wheel scales to any container width and is fully responsive.

Embedding the wheel

Place the shortcode anywhere in a page, post or widget:

[year_wheel]

No attributes are required. The wheel reads all events from the database automatically.

Managing events

The admin event list — one row per event, ordered by date. Edit or delete from the action links.

Navigate to Year Wheel → All Events in the WordPress admin menu.

Action	How
Add an event	Click Add Event in the sub-menu or the button at the top of the list. Fill in month, day, title and (optionally) a description, then click Save Event.
Edit an event	Click the Edit link on the event row. Change any field and click Save Event.
Delete an event	Click the Delete link on the event row and confirm the browser prompt.

Each event has five fields:

Field	Description
Month	Month of year (January – December).
Day of month	Day number within the month (1 – 31).
Title	Short label shown in the tooltip and the admin list.
Description	Optional longer text shown below the title in the tooltip.

Translations

Currently only Danish and English are supported.