Knowledge Building
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…
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- Small user base (10+ active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
- No update in 11 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 4.3 (latest is 7.1)
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Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Knowledge Building stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| comments | >100 |
| education | >100 |
| knowledge building | >100 |
| learning | >100 |
| progressive inquiry | #4 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 5 from 1 reviews
About Knowledge Building
From the official readme · v0.7.2Description
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 that uses another javascript library as its default.
For more regular updates see GitHub.
Installation
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.
- Store the plugin into the
/wp-content/plugins/knowledge-building/directory (basically just unzip the contents of the file into /wp-content/plugins). - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Go to Settings, Knowledge Building and select which post Categories should have Knowledge Building enabled.
Please note that since this plugin relies heavily on the commenting feature, not all themes will work nicely. Specifically, this plugin works best with themes that use the WordPress built-in comment Walker. You can detect this by checking whether or not your comments.php template has a call to ‘wp_list_comments’ or not. If it does not, then it has its own custom way of showing comments, which this plugin cannot easily work with. You can either select another theme which uses WordPress Walker, or just try and replace the code in comments.php that displays comments with a call to knbu_list_comments(); and cross your fingers. 🙂
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.
0.3
- Modified colors to be less intensive.
- Otherwise everything seems to be working smoothly.
0.2
- Beta release. Main functionality is done, and seems to be working.
0.1
- Initial alpha version.
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FAQ
Knowledge Building: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Sep 30, 2026
Is Knowledge Building free?
Yes. Knowledge Building is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Knowledge Building safe to use in 2026?
Knowledge Building shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 10+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 11 years ago, and scores 30/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Knowledge Building?
Knowledge Building is active on 10+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 5,099 times since it launched in September 2009. It was downloaded 46 times in the last 30 days.
Does Knowledge Building work with WordPress 7.1?
Knowledge Building is officially tested up to WordPress 4.3.34, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was Knowledge Building last updated?
The latest version, 0.7.2, was released on August 12, 2015 (11 years ago).
Who makes Knowledge Building?
Knowledge Building is developed and maintained by Tarmo Toikkanen.
What are the best alternatives to Knowledge Building?
The most popular alternatives to Knowledge Building are Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Pro… (5M+ installs), Disable Comments (1M+ installs) and Antispam Bee (700K+ installs).
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