Title: KBucket: Your Curated Content in WordPress
Author: Optimal Access
Published: <strong>सितम्बर 28, 2016</strong>
Last modified: दिसम्बर 10, 2025

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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.zip)

 * [Details](https://mai.wordpress.org/plugins/kbucket/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://mai.wordpress.org/plugins/kbucket/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://mai.wordpress.org/plugins/kbucket/#installation)
 * [Development](https://mai.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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### 󠀁[Just what I was looking for!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-what-i-was-looking-for-518/)󠁿

 [pixelsandcode](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pixelsandcode/) जून 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.

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

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

 [jmanley1](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jmanley1/) जून 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.

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

 [mag327](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mag327/) मई 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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### 󠀁[Resource Directory](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resource-directory/)󠁿

 [siliconspeech](https://profiles.wordpress.org/siliconspeech/) मई 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

## Meta

 *  Version **5.0**
 *  Last updated **4 months ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  PHP version ** 8.0 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/kbucket/)
 * Tags
 * [content curation](https://mai.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/content-curation/)[content hub](https://mai.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/content-hub/)
   [knowledge base](https://mai.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/knowledge-base/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://mai.wordpress.org/plugins/kbucket/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  4 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/kbucket/reviews/?filter=5)
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## Contributors

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

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

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

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