Knowledge Building
Use comment threads to facilitate meaningful knowledge building discussions. Comes with several knowledge type sets (eg. progressive inquiry, six hat …
5(1 reviews)
·10 active installs·Updated 10 years agoAs of April 2026, Knowledge Building is a WordPress comments plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection.
5/51 reviews
10active installs
4.8K+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
Knowledge Building is a process of collaboratively building new understanding and knowledge through meaningful discussion. This plugin allows knowledge building processes to happen on WordPress comments. There are several different knowledge typesets to choose from, and they can be mapped to individual post categories, so other posts will continue to use their normal commenting functionality, while some categories will be equipped with knowledge building tools.
This plugin is primarily meant for use in educational settings, but can of course be used for any meaningful purpose.
This plugin uses the JQuery javascript library, and the jquery.simpledialog plugin for JQuery to streamline the user interface. JQuery is used in noconflict-mode, so this won’t disturb a WordPress installation…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.7+ requiredTested up to 4.3.34 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
=0.7.2=
* Added the comment_form action call to allow other plugins to function that
want to add to comment forms.
=0.7.1=
* Deprecation error fixed.
=0.7=
* Map view ready and optimized.
=0.6=
* A new map view introduced.
=0.5.7=
* Tested to work with WordPress 3.5.1
* IE bug fix
=0.5.4=
* Tested to work with WordPress 3.0.
=0.5.3=
* Tested to work with WordPress 2.9.
=0.5.2=
* Debug messages removed (broke sorting on IE).
=0.5.1=
* Speed optimization to comment sorting.
=0.5=
* Quick fix for database initialization
* Basic support for sorting of comments.
0.4
- Corrected path dependency to math the installation path given by the WordPress Plugin Directory.
- Windows-compatible path handling.
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