<div dir="ltr"><font color="#333333"><font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">IMHO Themes should not bundle plugins with the Theme for couple of reasons:</font></font></font><div><ul><li><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">User should be able to swap the Theme without possibility of loosing their content.</font></li>
<li><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Updates, core and Theme</font></li></ul><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You are much better off with something like this: <a href="http://tgmpluginactivation.com/">http://tgmpluginactivation.com/</a></font></div>
</div><div style><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">(maybe not the perfect and the only way, but you'll get the idea)</font></div><div>
<font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Recommend a plugin instead and prompt your users that they're "missing" a plugin.</font></div>
<div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Quote from Michael FIelds :)</font></div><div style><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div style><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">"If you're building a bathroom and you change the wallpaper, the toilet shouldn't disappear, too."<br></font></div>
<div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks,</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Emil</font></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Ayan Debnath <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iosoft@gmail.com" target="_blank">iosoft@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello Sir,<br><br>I am developing a theme for general purpose.<br>It will be free when released.<br><br><b>I have just one question -</b><br>
<br>My theme needs a 3rd-party WordPress Plugin to handle and manage properly.<br>
Its <i>Facebook Plugin</i> for WordPress.<br><br>How to make sure that its installed together with my own theme ?<br><br><br>Thanks for the guide.<br>Regards<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>Ayan Debnath<br>
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