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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.

Installation

Install the plugin as you normally would, into its own folder inside wp-content/plugins. Go to WP admin, and enable the Knowledge Building plugin. After this, go to Settings, and open the new settings page “Knowledge Building”. There you can select which knowledge typeset to use with which post category. By default, no typesets are used.

Finally, you need to edit your template to so that the knowledge building tools are visible. Go to Theme editing, and edit the comments.php template. Find the call to “wp_list_comments” and replace that with “knbu_list_comments”. And you’re done!

Examples

You can see knowledge building in action by looking at the comments for the post Demonstration of Knowledge Building. That post uses the Progressive Inquiry KB typeset. You can also look at Six Hat Thinking in the post Try out Six Hat Thinking.

Downloading

This plugin is hosted in the Wordpress Plugin Directory.

Updates

Version 0.5.3 is the latest relase in December 2009. Until we reach 1.0, just keep upgrading.

Version 0.2 was the first release in September 2009.