Title: Culture Object
Author: thirty8
Published: <strong>12 сар 20, 2015</strong>
Last modified: 8 сар 17, 2025

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# Culture Object

 By [thirty8](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thirty8/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/culture-object.4.3.zip)

 * [Details](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/culture-object/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/culture-object/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/culture-object/#installation)
 * [Development](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/culture-object/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/culture-object/)

## Description

CultureObject is an open source WordPress plugin designed to help you put your museum
object records on the web.

It supports a number of collection management systems (AdLib, CollectionSpace, CSV,
CultureGrid, Emu, RAMM) as well as uploading of CSV files.

## Installation

 * Install it
 * Activate it
 * Point it at your data
 * Run the import
 * Build the necessary theme pages to display your content.
 * Point in wonder at your beautiful new site before heading to the pub to celebrate.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Perfect software to convert AdLib to WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-software-to-convert-adlib-to-wordpress/)󠁿

 [bekker004](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bekker004/) 7 сар 11, 2022

Ideal to convert your museum items to the wordpress database. This makes is possible
to keep te registration of the museum items up to date on a payable solution. I 
converted the data to nationaalcarnavalsmuseum.com and created a solution for the
volunteers to add/update the database. Everyone (in the Netherlands) can search 
in the data now. Works still perfect with wordpress 6.0.

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### 󠀁[Excellent basis for Museums with Adlib](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-basis-for-museums-with-adlib/)󠁿

 [webwerkplaats](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webwerkplaats/) 3 сар 18, 2017

Takes some getting used to but an excellent engine to show (part) of your Adlib 
collection on the internet

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### 󠀁[compatibility issue](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatibility-issue-4/)󠁿

 [ezamar](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ezamar/) 10 сар 18, 2016

The plugin looks very nice, but is incompatible with newest WP release. I beg the
author to actualize it.

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### 󠀁[Amazing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-1103/)󠁿

 [dmje](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dmje/) 9 сар 3, 2016

Works brilliantly, really solid import of museum data

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

## Contributors & Developers

“Culture Object” is open source software. The following people have contributed 
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ thirty8 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thirty8/)
 *   [ Liam Gladdy ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lgladdy/)

“Culture Object” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/culture-object/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Culture Object” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/culture-object)

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 4.3

New: Add new MDS provider
 General: Bump third party dependencies Security: Fixed
several escaping potential security vulnerabilities

#### 4.2

Improvement: Updated dependencies, modernised codebase. Now requires WordPress 6.2
and PHP 8.1
 Security: HPSpreadsheet to fix a vulnerability Security: Fixed several
escaping security vulnerabilities

#### 4.1.1

Improvement: Implement WordPress coding standards

#### 4.1

Security Fix: some unescaped output to HTML
 Improvement: Implement PSR-4 autoloader
for classes

#### 4.0

Fix: CSV2 improvements for images, taxonomies and many other bug fixes.
 Update:
We now require PHP 7.3 and WordPress 5.2+ for the sake of testing ability on supported
software.

#### 3.6

New: SWCE Improvements

#### 3.5

New: Code standard changes
 New: Improvements to internationalization efforts New:
CSV2 supports a taxonomy field which can contain comma seperated values. Fix: Fixes
a bug with CSV2 which means new objects could be created each import, rather than
updating existing ones. Deprecated: In Version 4.0, we will require at least PHP
7.2, and then track PHP’s supported versions going forward (until security fixes
end) as detailed [on php.net](https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php)

#### 3.3.0

New: Support CLI cron imports to get around fast-cgi timeouts on some budget hosting.
run `php wp-content/plugins/<plugin_folder>/cron.php`
 New: Support category filters
in SWCE provider.

#### 3.2.0

New: Support field mapping for CSV, and enable CSV support for Culture Object Display

#### 3.1.1

Minor changes to support Culture Object Display

#### 3.1.0

New: Support AJAX import for SWCE.

#### 3.0.0

New: CSV2 Provider (Replaces CSV) – Support field name mapping, makes cleanup optional(
for partial imports) and supports AJAX import.
 New: Full i18n support. If you want
to contribute in your native language, [become a WordPress Translator](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/culture-object)
New: CSV2/3.0.0 moves more of the logic out of providers and into CultureObject 
Core, meaning Version 4 can make writing a provider much easier. Deprecated: PHP
< 5.5 support. We require at least PHP 5.5. Fix: Support WordPress Multisite. If
you were using < 3.0.0 on multisite (you probably weren’t, as it didn’t really work!),
you will need to reconfigure Culture Object on each site.

#### 2.2.0

Fix: Support WordPress 4.5
 Fix: an issue with EMU imports with some JSON files

#### 2.1.3

Revert to old PHP syntax so we work on PHP 5.3 (but please, please upgrade to PHP
5.6 or PHP 7)

#### 2.1.2

Fix: Remove debug-disablement of taxonomy imports for CultureObject.

#### 2.1.1

Fix: A bug with view files trying to load a file that didn’t exist.

#### 2.1.0

Change: Move provider settings into it’s own submenu
 New: CSV Provider

#### 2.0.0

Change: Change menu option to a standalone utility menu item, rather than putting
it inside the general settings

New: [CollectionSpace](http://www.collectionspace.org) provider

API New: 2 new functions, cos_get_field() and cos_the_field() provide abstracted
access to imported data. This is the recommended way to access Culture Object data
from v2.0.0 onwards, as we can provide begin to implement context handlers in future
releases, especially as WordPress 4.4 introduces a new taxonomy metadata API, which
will remove some of complexities we’re currently having to implement.

API New: Providers can add an execute_init_action method which is attached to a 
WordPress [init action hook](https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/init).
This can be to register additional post types or taxonomies will your import process
to write against, or do to additional hook registration to allow for things like
nonce checks or password security functions.

API New: Support for providers to automatically import images into the WordPress
media library (currently only supported by CollectionSpace, but coming to other 
providers soon!)

API New: Support for field remapping. (currently only supported by CollectionSpace,
but coming to other providers soon!)

Providers can now provide a list of fields which are available to be remapped. If
enabled, and the theme declares support for “cos-remaps” via [add_theme_support](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_theme_support)
a list of all fields will be shown in the Culture Object settings page, and can 
be overridden by the user. As a theme developer, you should use cos_get_remapped_field_name(‘
key’) in order to get the remapped name for a field.

## Meta

 *  Version **4.3**
 *  Last updated **8 сар ago**
 *  Active installations **50+**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.8.5**
 *  PHP version ** 8.1 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [English (UK)](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/culture-object/) ба [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/culture-object/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/culture-object)
 * Tags
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 *  [Advanced View](https://mn.wordpress.org/plugins/culture-object/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ thirty8 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/thirty8/)
 *   [ Liam Gladdy ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lgladdy/)

## Support

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