The Circle Info Block: Turn A Process Into A Circle People Can Click

Arrange the steps of a process around a ring and show the selected one in the middle — all of it editable text.

The process diagram nobody wants to open twice

You’re building a client site and the brief includes a process — five steps, a service model, a value wheel. It gets drawn elsewhere, exported as a picture, dropped on the page. Then the client renames step three, and every edit goes back through whoever made the file. None of the words inside it reach a screen reader or a search result.

The Circle Info block builds that diagram out of the content itself. Each step is a point on a ring; select one and its heading, description and link appear in the middle — so the client renames step three themselves.

Five points, opened by click, numbered markers. The project process a visitor meets on a real services page.

Set it up the way the section needs

Add a point per step, each with its own ring caption, heading, description and link.
Set the diameter, where the first point starts, and which way the sequence runs.
Draw the ring solid, dashed or hidden, show a number or your own icon on each point, open one on click or hover, and place the captions outside, inside or out of sight per screen size.
Let it advance on its own once the section scrolls into view, with a countdown around the running point, switched on or off per device.
On a phone the ring folds into a vertical accordion, so captions never overlap and points stay easy to tap.
Plus the usual spacing, colour and responsive controls.

Finished, not just featureful

The parts you only notice when they’re missing.

The ring works from the keyboard like a set of tabs — arrow keys between points, Home and End to the ends — and a screen reader is told which is selected.
Visitors who ask for reduced motion never get the automatic advance, and anything folded away is properly closed, not just hidden.
Every colour here — points, ring, arc, captions, the centre — has a light and a dark counterpart.
The styling is worked out when you save the page, so a visitor’s browser has nothing to calculate.

The same block, dressed two other ways

Icons instead of numbers, opening on hover, running anticlockwise. A solid ring and a new start angle, same content.

Advancing on its own, with a countdown around the live point. It waits for the section to scroll into view, then stops once a visitor picks a point.

Building one takes about a minute. Drop the block in, add a point per step, type its caption, heading and description, then set the diameter. The canvas redraws as you go. No CSS, no shortcode, nothing to remember.

It sits in the same editor, beside the blocks you already build with, and shares the same spacing, colour and responsive controls — it just needs Flexa Block switched on alongside it.

Give the next process page a circle instead of a picture

Circle Info is one of the blocks in Flexa Block Pro. Have a look at what it does.

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