Otto, that's amazing; it's perfect for me. As was echoed in the comments, better to learn how to do it myself than to learn how to use a big library. Between this and the theme customizer tutorials, I owe you, like, 19 beers.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 November 2012 19:07, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com" target="_blank">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Kirk Wight <<a href="mailto:kwight@kwight.ca">kwight@kwight.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
> I'm asking, of course, because it would be great to start suggesting it (or<br>
> something similar) to theme devs that are including functionality like<br>
> shortcodes, etc in themes. Also because, well, I might want to use it myself<br>
> :)<br>
<br>
</div>While that library is indeed pretty handy, it's entirely possible to<br>
do the same basic thing on a somewhat smaller scale by simply writing<br>
code to do it yourself. I'm not against the library, but for that<br>
custom type of look, it may be desirable to sort of DIY it with<br>
regards to the interface.<br>
<br>
I wrote a post to this effect, demonstrating the basics of how to<br>
detect installed plugins, give the user links to install and activate<br>
them, etc. You might find it helpful.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://ottopress.com/2012/themeplugin-dependencies/" target="_blank">http://ottopress.com/2012/themeplugin-dependencies/</a><br>
<br>
In that class, I demonstrate how to check for plugins, check to see if<br>
plugins are active, and provide activation and installation links on<br>
pretty much any screen you like. It could be done in a few lines of<br>
code instead of having a large library included, at the expense of not<br>
having a grand sort of interface provided to you, type of thing.<br>
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-Otto<br>
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