Title: KBucket: Your Curated Content in WordPress
Author: Optimal Access
Published: <strong>September 28, 2016</strong>
Last modified: October 2, 2026

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# KBucket: Your Curated Content in WordPress

 By [Optimal Access](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bodhisatva/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/kbucket.5.6.7.zip)

 * [Details](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/kbucket/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/kbucket/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/kbucket/#installation)
 * [Development](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/kbucket/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/kbucket/)

## Description

Transform your WordPress site into a vibrant, multi-channel content hub. Curate 
and manage your posts effortlessly in Kurator – our AI-powered browser extension–
and publish to WordPress instantly, no coding or dashboard hassle required.

Build a living resource center for your audience with fresh, relevant content from
trusted sources, including your YouTube channel, social feeds, white papers, blog
posts and research.

Showcase your content your way. Import, transcribe, categorize, and publish your
YouTube videos as a playable library.

Filter by content, publisher, or author tags and republish any selection as short
codes for carousels, sliders, and grid widgets—anywhere on your website.

Customize styles and themes to match your brand, add custom banners for promotions
or advertising, and use citation links to share curated posts with attribution in
one click.

KBucket is built to boost SEO and content marketing performance.

By centralizing curated and original content, interlinking related posts, and using
your KBucket hub as the destination for social shares and chatbot references, you
increase session duration and drive more inbound traffic from search.

Ideal for marketers, SMBs, educators, journalists, campaign teams, and YouTube creators,
KBucket helps you consistently publish high-quality, topic-focused hubs that rank
locally—think “best Industry news in ”—and convert readers into subscribers or customers.

Getting started is simple: install the KBucket plugin, register on Optimal Access
to get your API key, activate and set up your KBucket page, then sync your curated
collections from Kurator.

KBucket is free to use. To publish content, you’ll need a Kurator license—Kurator’s
free plan lets you curate and manage up to 100 posts.

 * Centralized curation workflow: Unlike typical plugins that require manual on-
   site editing, KBucket keeps all curation, organization, summaries, and YouTube
   transcriptions in Kurator, then publishes to WordPress in one flow.
 * Multi-format publishing: Repurpose the same collection as resource hubs, carousels,
   sliders, or grids with short-codes, no extra builders required.
 * SEO-first landing pages: Use your KBucket hub as the destination for social shares
   and KChat references to improve internal linking, engagement, and search visibility.
 * Monetization-ready: Add custom banners to curated posts for promotions or ads.
 * Shareable citations: One-click citation links make it easy to reference and redistribute
   curated insights with proper attribution.
 * Automated distribution: Each KBucket channel generates a custom RSS feed you 
   can plug into your newsletter or social media scheduler, automatically powering
   content updates and keeping every platform in sync.

Take a look to see how it all works.

SOME EXAMPLES

 * [Optimal Access Curated Hub](https://optimalaccess.com/kurator-your-2nd-brain-for-ai-conversdation/)
   KBucket on our page hosts all our video tutorials and acts as the landing page
   for our Chat solution.
 * [Toastmaster Club](https://siliconspeech.org/resources/toastmasters/silicon-speech/?)
   Silicon Speech is a Toastmasters group that uses KBucket to curate and distribute
   Toastmaster-related material for its members and the public at large.

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## Installation

Steps to activate the plugin.

 * Activate the Plugin from your WordPress Dashboard, KBucket Plugin page (You will
   see KBucket in the sidebar)
 * Register the Plugin by going to our [registration page](https://optimalaccess.com/auth-reg/)
 * Get your API key from your new profile page
 * Enter your API key under the settings tab in your WordPress KBucket page
 * If you are using a Page Builder product, you need to use short codes to display
   the content
 * Go the the “Settings Tab” and choose “use short code” option
 * Go to the KBucket page (this page is labeled under your pages list) and create
   a row with two columns and copy the short codes into each section
 * Add the Kbucket page to your desired menu and change the name and url of the 
   page as you wish
 * If you are not using short codes, go to the Appearance Widgets menu and add the
   KBucket tags to the “KBucket Sidebar”
 * Download Kurator from the [Kurator product page](https://optimalaccess.com/#kurator/)
 * Visit our Docs if you have any questions [Docs](https://optimalaccess.com/docs/).
 * To learn how to create and export your curated research visit our website and
   ask KChat: How can I create a gallery file for KBucket [Optimal Access](https://optimalaccess.com/)
 * To upload your curated page go to the ‘upload KBucket’ tab in your plugin and
   upload the file.

## FAQ

### What are the limitations with KBucket

KBucket is free to use. You will need a license for Kurator if you want to build
and manage a multi-channel gallery with more than 100 links

### How do I curate Articles

In order to curate articles you need our Kurator extension for Chrome. You can find
the link to Kurator under the installation tab, or you can search for the name in
chrome web-store.

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Just what I was looking for!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-what-i-was-looking-for-518/)󠁿

 [pixelsandcode](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pixelsandcode/) June 22, 2022

I'd been looking for an aggregator plugin for a site I'd been wanting to start, 
and this one did the trick. It's easy to set up, and if you run into trouble, the
author is available and very willing to assist.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/89464abc75416a27d58df94e90b70f0368d3c26fb8982837d326ba319af3d275?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Amazing Plug in](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-plug-in-54/)󠁿

 [jmanley1](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jmanley1/) June 9, 2022

This is a fantastic plug in. I am using it regularly on my website. I highly recommend
this. I am an immigration attorney and use KBucket to curate and share related information
on multiple channels.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f5bec57be97b0d166c6f6abe1bb6f34fc45ee7b9f986675e3fa4963f4e38a5d0?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Seamless Curated Content Library](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seamless-curated-content-library/)󠁿

 [mag327](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mag327/) May 16, 2022

This has been one of our easiest plugins and the new features help it work even 
better. If you're looking for an easy way to share curated content from outside 
sources on your website, this is the way to do it. Couple it with their browser 
extension for Chrome and this becomes seamless.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Resource Directory](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resource-directory/)󠁿

 [siliconspeech](https://profiles.wordpress.org/siliconspeech/) May 13, 2022

Silicon Speech is a Toastmaster club based in Santa Monica, California. We utilize
KBucket as a knowledge library to offer our members with important information and
resources. To promote community among all of our members, we established a shared
folder where they may curate and share any materials or speeches that are relevant
to the activities of our club and organization.

 [ Read all 4 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/kbucket/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“KBucket: Your Curated Content in WordPress” is open source software. The following
people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Optimal Access ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bodhisatva/)

[Translate “KBucket: Your Curated Content in WordPress” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/kbucket)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/kbucket/), check out
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/kbucket/), or subscribe to
the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/kbucket/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/kbucket/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.3.8

First official public release

#### 2.3.9

Fixed minor theme related bugs

#### 2.3.10

Fixed minor theme related bugs

#### 2.3.11

Fixed issues with “Set Social” on the backend

#### 2.3.13

Added Twitter handle for sharing

#### 2.3.16

Added Twitter handle for sharing
 Fixed upload bugs

#### 2.3.19

Fixed category tag issues

#### 2.3.20

Fixed memory upload issues

#### 2.3.21

Fixed issues with social image share

=2.3.23 =
 Fixed issues with Style formatting

=2.3.24 =
 Fixed issues with Java Script – conflicts with newer versions

=2.4.7 =
 Made KBucket page micro tags visible to the search engine Added short 
code capabilities to make it compatible for more themes Changed how images are uploaded.
Once an image is loaded from the server, it will stay, till changed by the server.

=2.4.8 =
 Solved issues with mobile display

=2.6.1 =
 Changed the URL structure to SEO friendly URLs.

=2.6.3 =
 Added a new template with the channels appearing in the side-bar

=2.6.6 =
 Added CSS tab for modifying look and feel of the KBucket page

=2.6.7 =
 Fixed issues with image upload

=2.6.16 =
 Updated Mobile display of posts. Now you see the whole description while
in Mobile viewing. This helps with our Botcopy integration.

=2.6.22 =
 Updated the version to work with the new WordPress database, enhanced
the RSS feeds and added more fields for our Chatbot CMS solution and changed how
the cards display content.

=2.7 =
 Updated the tag and image edit features. Also made the plugin compatible
with PHP 8.0

=2.7.4 =
 Added a new theme for the KBucket page. Added the ability to edit and 
replace images directly on the page Updated the payment gateway

=2.7.6 =
 Ability to add description for each channel

=2.7.7 =
 Fixed issue with camera icon

=2.8.0 =
 Fixed minor issues and crated a link back to our website

=2.9.0 =
 Added a sync feature to sync Kurator files with KBucket

=2.10.0.1 =
 Fixed bugs with the sync feature

=2.11.7 =
 Fixed issues with Sync, improved the uploading process to only update
what has changed. Much faster sync process.

=2.11.9 =
 Fixed an issue with a log file that needed to be deactivated. It was 
slowing down access to plugin on the back end.

=2.12.1 =
 Added styles option for customizing the look & feel of the content tags
and post items. Updates to image upload and sync feature.

=2.12.2 =
 Fixed a compatibility bug with WordPress version 6.1.1

=2.13.9 =
 Added widgets to embed content from KBucket via short code anywhere on
your website.

=2.13.11 =
 Added a Slider widget via short code

=2.13.18 =
 Updated the look & feel of the embed widgets and added the readme button
to the posts

=2.14.3 =
 Updated php to support 8.0, and added capability to play YouTube videos
directly on the page.

=2.14.5 =
 Updated PHP to support 8.3, fixed issues with theme display, changed 
captions for videos, added Facebook share button

=3.1.3 =
 Fixed incompatibility with Astra themes, introduced new widget theme

=3.1.6 =
 Fixed compatibility issues with JS and minor bug fixes

=3.1.9 =
 Added new option to display popups (Left, Center, Right)

=4.1.1 =
 Fixed issues with popup text formatting and image alignment

=4.1.5 =
 Fixed security issue with $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’]

=4.1.6 =
 Fixed Security issue with YouTube API

=4.2.4 =
 Applied prepare condition with sql query

=4.2.5 =
 Fixed a widgets broken issue.

=4.2.6 =
 Fixed a formatting of the posts on share popup.

=5.0 =
 Changed the yearly license to a free license and fixed the upload workflow

=5.2 =
 Improved structured data implementation by setting the correct schema @type
for content items.

=5.2.1 =
 Fixed sync-by-URL failing with “File empty” on larger XML exports. The
staging step now writes the downloaded file to disk under /uploads/ instead of an
AES-encrypted blob in wp_options, which silently truncates on MySQL servers whose
max_allowed_packet is below the encrypted file size (~33% larger than the raw XML
due to base64). Removes a fixed-key/no-IV “encryption” pass that provided no real
security. Backward-compatible read fallback for any sync that was mid-flight when
the patch was applied.

=5.2.2 =
 Tested with WordPress 7.0. Pinned the Stable tag to an actual version (
previously “trunk”) so the WP.org plugin page serves a known-good build rather than
whatever happens to be in trunk.

=5.2.3 =
 Fixes “YouTube video is broken or unavailable.” appearing in place of 
videos that are perfectly fine. The share modal was refusing to output the embed
unless a YouTube Data API lookup succeeded first, and installs that have not set
their own API key share one bundled key whose daily quota is regularly exhausted–
so a 403 from Google read to visitors as a broken video. The embed is now rendered
from the video id alone and never depends on that lookup; the API is used only for
the optional views/likes/channel panel. That lookup is also now made once per view
instead of twice, cached for 12 hours (failures cached for 15 minutes), given a 
5 second timeout, and issued through wp_remote_get so it works on hosts with allow_url_fopen
disabled. The settings screen now explains how to add your own key. Also hardens
the id parser against ?t=/&list=/# suffixes and tolerates videos with likes or view
counts hidden.

=5.2.4 =
 Fixes the scheduled upload not running at the interval you selected. The
scheduler runs on every front-end page load, and it was clearing and re-creating
the cron event each time, discarding WordPress’s record of when the event was next
due. A site set to “Every 1 hour” would instead sync at unpredictable intervals,
often 14 to 21 hours apart. The event is now created once and only rebuilt when 
the interval actually changes, so hourly means hourly. Also clears the schedule 
when auto upload is switched off or set to Manual, instead of leaving an orphaned
event behind.

=5.3.0 =
 KBucket now inherits your theme instead of imposing its own look.

PLEASE READ – THIS CHANGES HOW YOUR GALLERIES LOOK. Until now the plugin
 hard-coded
its own palette and typography (Raleway, coral headings, white panels) into every
page it rendered, and set much of it with !important, so the only way to restyle
KBucket was to fight it with more !important. That is also why KBucket looked out
of place on dark themes, and why its popup stayed white no matter what your theme
did.

Colours, fonts and backgrounds are now CSS custom properties. On the front end
 
they are left undefined on purpose, so KBucket’s headings, body text and panels 
take the font, text colour and background of whatever theme you are running. On 
most sites this simply makes the galleries and the article popup look like the rest
of the site. On sites that were built around KBucket’s old colours, the galleries
will change appearance after updating.

To pin the previous look, or any palette you like, set the tokens in your
 theme.
No !important required:

    ```
    .kb-wrapper, #kb-wrapper, #facebox .content {
        --kb-font:         Raleway, sans-serif;
        --kb-bg:           #ffffff;
        --kb-bg-alt:       #f6f6f6;
        --kb-fg:           #333333;
        --kb-fg-muted:     #828282;
        --kb-accent:       #e64d47;
        --kb-accent-hover: #e76c67;
        --kb-border:       #dddddd;
    }
    ```

48 presentational !important declarations were removed so your theme can win
 the
cascade normally. The wp-admin screens are unaffected – the old palette is still
applied there. Note that if you previously restyled KBucket with !important overrides,
those still win; a rule written for the old markup may now be redundant, and an 
overly broad one (for example setting overflow on the popup body) can still cause
problems.

=5.3.1 =
 Fix: meta descriptions and canonical links are no longer removed from 
non-KBucket pages.

KBucket’s workarounds for Yoast SEO on its own hub pages were being applied
 to 
every page of the site. Yoast’s meta description and canonical link were suppressed
site-wide, and WordPress’s own canonical link was removed from every front-end page,
which also affected sites running no SEO plugin at all. All three now apply only
on KBucket pages.

=5.3.2 =
 Fixes the SEO tags KBucket writes into on its own item pages. Yoast and
WordPress’s canonical are deliberately removed on these pages, so KBucket’s own 
tags are the only signals search engines and social scrapers get.

 * Adds pointing at the item’s clean URL, built from the
    site’s configured home
   URL, with no query string and the site’s own trailing slash convention.
 * og:url now uses that same canonical URL. It previously used the raw request
    
   URL, hard-coded to http:// and carrying any query string, so a shared link could
   report a different URL than the page it came from.
 * Descriptions are cleaned up: leading transcript timestamps such as “(00:04)”
   
   or “[0:05]” are stripped, whitespace is collapsed, and the text is truncated 
   on a word boundary at about 155 characters instead of mid-word at 107.
 * Each og: tag is output once. The duplicate block using
    prefix=”og: http://ogp.
   me/ns#” has been removed.
 * og:image:width and og:image:height are output only when the real dimensions
    
   are known, instead of always reporting 0, and og:image:type is derived from the
   file extension instead of always claiming image/png.
 * twitter:card is now summary_large_image instead of photo.
 * Removes the Cache-Control, Pragma and Expires meta http-equiv tags.

=5.3.3 =
 Removes AddThis. Oracle shut the service down on 31 May 2023, so every
AddThis button in KBucket has been inert since then and the plugin was still loading
a script from s7.addthis.com on the front end.

 * The addthis_widget.js enqueue is gone, along with the bundled copy of the
    script,
   the refreshAddthis() helpers in four JavaScript files, the AddThis event handlers
   and the addthis_share passthrough blocks.
 * The share panel’s Email button is now a plain mailto: link carrying the
    item’s
   title and URL, with the same icon. It previously did nothing.
 * The StumbleUpon button has been removed. StumbleUpon closed in 2018. The
    copy-
   citation button now reads the item URL from its own data-url attribute rather
   than from the StumbleUpon badge.
 * Facebook, X, LinkedIn and Pinterest are unchanged. They are ordinary links
    and
   were never AddThis-powered.

CSS class names such as addthis_toolbox_custom are retained because the share
 panel’s
layout still hangs off them.

=5.3.4 =
 Housekeeping. Deletes templates/backupds/, an old backup copy of two templates
that no code loaded. It still carried the AddThis and StumbleUpon markup removed
in 5.3.3, so it shipped dead third-party code to every site. No functional change.

=5.3.5 =
 Security and front-end performance fix. Please update.

Security: the AJAX endpoints that set an item’s thumbnail checked neither a
 nonce
nor a capability. Because they are wp_ajax_ actions, any logged-in user — including
a subscriber who self-registered — could change any item’s thumbnail to any URL,
and could write post meta onto any post ID by passing it as the attachment. Both
endpoints now verify a nonce, require the upload_files capability, validate the 
item id and reject any image URL that is not http or https or that does not belong
to a real attachment. The camera control is now shown only to users who hold that
capability; it was previously rendered for every logged-in user.

Performance: every front-end page loaded the whole WordPress media editor —
 Backbone,
the media views, the uploader and the media players — for every visitor, including
logged-out ones, so that an administrator could change a thumbnail. Those scripts
are now loaded only for users who can use the control, and only on pages that actually
render it. Anonymous visitors load none of it.

=5.3.6 =
 Security fix. Please update.

Four leftover debug entry points ran on the init hook and answered any
 request,
from anyone, on any URL of the site. No login was required.

Three of them had no caller anywhere in the plugin and have been removed
 outright:
two that triggered the content sync and image staging by hand, and an image-parser
tester. The image tester was the serious one. It checked the file extension of the
URL it was given but only printed a warning and carried on, so it would fetch a 
remote file and write it into the uploads directory under an attacker-chosen extension.
It also made the site fetch any URL it was handed, including addresses on the host’s
own network.

The fourth prints the auto-upload log and is reached from the Full Log link
 on 
the KBucket admin Upload tab. It now requires an administrator and a valid nonce,
and returns 403 otherwise. Previously anyone could read the log by appending the
parameter to any URL.

The scheduled sync and the normal image import are unaffected: they run
 through
kb_activate_auto_upload_kbucket(), which already applies the extension whitelist
correctly and is unchanged.

=5.4.0 =
 Front-end performance. KBucket now loads only the assets a page actually
needs, and loads them later.

 * Masonry and imagesLoaded were enqueued in the head of every page on the
    site,
   whether or not it showed any KBucket content. They are now pulled in only by 
   layouts that use them, so a carousel page no longer downloads masonry at all.
 * jQuery UI (core, mouse, draggable, droppable) is no longer enqueued on the
    front
   end. Nothing there used it.
 * The Font Awesome 4.7 stylesheet from maxcdn is no longer loaded. The slider
    
   arrows now use current Font Awesome class names. Sites that have no Font Awesome
   of their own can restore it with: add_filter( ‘kbucket_load_font_awesome’, ‘__return_true’);
 * KBucket’s scripts now load deferred from the footer on WordPress 6.3 and
    above,
   instead of blocking the parser.
 * Pages with several widgets printed the kbObj data, an inline script and an
    inline
   stylesheet once per widget. Each is now emitted once.
 * Item images carry real width and height, lazy loading below the fold, and
    async
   decoding, so they no longer shift the layout as they arrive. The ImageObject 
   microdata reports the measured size instead of a fixed 500×500.
 * Minified builds of the widget script, facebox and the stylesheet ship with
    the
   plugin and are used unless SCRIPT_DEBUG is on.

=5.4.1 =
 Fixes two faults in the widget JavaScript that stopped carousels from 
starting and left YouTube videos playing after the popup was closed.

The widget script patched Masonry’s prototype at the top of its startup
 routine,
before deciding which layout to build. From 5.4.0 masonry is no longer loaded for
carousel and slider layouts that never use it, so that line threw and everything
after it was abandoned: slick never initialised, and the carousel rendered as a 
plain grid. Those patches now run only when Masonry is actually present.

The same routine also used Underscore’s _.debounce for its resize handler.
 Underscore
was never declared as a dependency – it happened to be on the page because the plugin
loaded the WordPress media editor everywhere, which 5.3.5 stopped doing. It is replaced
with a small local debounce, so the code after it now runs: that includes loading
the YouTube IFrame API, without which the player object was never created and closing
the popup could not stop the video.

=5.4.2 =
 Hardening, no visible change. The remaining places where the widget and
hub scripts assumed Masonry or imagesLoaded were on the page now check first.

These libraries are only loaded for layouts that use them, so a missing one is
 
normal rather than exceptional. An unguarded reference throws and abandons the rest
of the enclosing function, which is how the carousel broke in 5.4.0. The checks 
mean a layout that cannot run simply does not run, instead of taking unrelated features
down with it. Where imagesLoaded alone is missing, the grid now lays out immediately
rather than not at all.

=5.5.0 =
 Crawl and indexing control for the URLs KBucket generates. NOT YET VERIFIED
ON A RUNNING SITE – test on staging before updating a live install.

 * Tag, related-tag, author and publisher listings, pages after the first, and
    
   sort/order/format/share/mtag variants now return ‘noindex, follow’. They stay
   crawlable so search engines still reach item pages through them. Item pages and
   the first page of each category and collection are unchanged.
 * A category and collection that both exist but do not belong together now
    return
   404. They previously rendered, because only each half was checked, and were then
   301’d to the KBucket home – which kept them indexed.
 * Mixed-case KBucket URLs redirect once to the lowercase https form.
 * The legacy /kc/{id}/ and /kb/{id} URLs resolve to the item’s current
    address,
   or return 410 when the item no longer exists. They previously rendered a collection
   listing under an item URL.
 * The category menu query is cached per request instead of running about a
    dozen
   times per page.

=5.5.1 =
 The 5.5.0 crawl and indexing rules now ship switched OFF. Installing this
version changes nothing for visitors or search engines until you opt in with

    ```
    define( 'KB_SEO_ENFORCE', true );
    ```

in wp-config.php. A second constant, KB_SEO_DEBUG_TOKEN, makes the plugin
 report
what the rules WOULD do for any URL – as a response header, with no change to the
page – so the decisions can be checked against real URLs before anything takes effect.

=5.6.0 =
 Item pages now render server-side. Every KBucket item already had its 
own URL, /kbucket/{category}/{collection}/{slug}/, but that URL served the whole
collection listing and relied on JavaScript to open the item in the modal, so search
engines and AI crawlers never saw the item’s full description. The URL now renders
the item itself – title, author, publisher, date, the embedded video, the full description
or transcript with timestamped section headings, tags, a link to the source and 
a short “More in this collection” list – plus VideoObject (or Article) JSON-LD including
the transcript. The modal no longer auto-opens on these pages; on listings it behaves
exactly as before.

KBucket pages had no tag at all whenever Yoast SEO was active. They now
 get one,
and item pages are titled after the item.

Carousel and grid widget cards link to the item page instead of to YouTube, and

image cards show the title and a “Read the transcript” link under the thumbnail.
Clicking the thumbnail still opens the same modal.

New KBucket XML sitemap: /kbucket-sitemap.xml under Yoast SEO, or
 /wp-sitemap-kbucket-
1.xml with WordPress core sitemaps.

=5.6.1 =
 Sync by URL fixes. The downloaded file is now staged in wp-content/uploads/
kbucket/ instead of inside the plugin folder, so updating or replacing the plugin
mid-sync no longer deletes it. A missing staged file no longer aborts an image import
that is already under way (“File empty” followed by missing images). Failed downloads
now log the reason (curl error or HTTP status), use timeouts, and wait a minute 
before retrying instead of retrying on every page view. Only one sync runs at a 
time.

=5.6.2 =
 Carousel and grid image cards: the title under the thumbnail now opens
the same modal as the thumbnail, and the separate “Read the transcript” link is 
gone. The title still links to the item page, so search engines and AI crawlers 
keep reaching the full description. Caption and item-page sizes are set in px, so
themes that set a small root font size no longer shrink them.

=5.6.3 =
 Scheduled sync safety net. The hourly, 3-hourly and daily syncs only run
when WordPress cron runs. On hosts that disable WP-Cron and drive it from a server
cron job, a broken server job silently stopped every sync. Now, when the scheduled
sync is more than an hour overdue, the next front-end page view runs it – after 
the page has been sent to the visitor on PHP-FPM and LiteSpeed – and moves the schedule
forward so only one visitor triggers it. The sync log notes when this happens.

=5.6.4 =
 Performance: KBucket no longer regenerates WordPress’s rewrite rules on
every page load, which also wrote the rewrite_rules option to the database on every
request. The rules are now regenerated once – on activation, after a plugin update,
or when the KBucket page’s slug changes.

=5.6.5 =
 Images and accessibility. Removed a hidden placeholder publisher logo 
on every card (src=”/”, no alt text) that also made browsers fetch the page itself
as an image. The pop-up’s loading image and close button, the pop-up image for non-
video items, the citation button and the thumbnail-change button now have descriptive
alt text or accessible names.

=5.6.6 =
 WordPress.org release of the 5.6 series. The sync download now uses the
WordPress HTTP API instead of raw cURL, with the same timeouts, redirects and logged
error reasons. Tightened output escaping in the item and card templates, and tested
with WordPress 7.1.

=5.6.7 =
 Redirects for removed content. When a collection or item is deleted in
Kurator, its KBucket URLs now 301 instead of returning a 404: an item that moved
goes to its current page, a deleted item goes to its collection, and anything under
a removed category or collection (items, tag pages, pagination) goes to the KBucket
home collection. Disable with the kb_redirect_removed_urls filter. Widgets with 
nothing to show now render nothing instead of “No result found”.

## Meta

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 *  Last updated **2 weeks ago**
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