<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It will hardly impact the user experience. It will take the user about 30 seconds to download and activate the plugin.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If your worried that the user might miss it just put it in your theme documentation. I personally think there's no need to package plugins in the themes folder in most cases.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Here's a link to get TGM:</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://tgmpluginactivation.com/">http://tgmpluginactivation.com/</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Afzaal</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sent from my iPhone</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br>On 14 Nov 2013, at 00:28, Alex King <<a href="mailto:lists@alexking.org">lists@alexking.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div><span>On Nov 13, 2013, at 5:24 PM, "WordPress (thinkupthemes)" <<a href="mailto:wordpress@thinkupthemes.com">wordpress@thinkupthemes.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Why are you including the plugin in your theme? Why not just use TGM to recommend it as an install after the theme is activated?</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>The plugin provides useful features to the theme, the theme was designed to integrate these features. It was integrated in such a way that the plugin can be both disabled and upgraded separately:</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://alexking.org/blog/2012/07/09/include-plugin-in-wordpress-theme">http://alexking.org/blog/2012/07/09/include-plugin-in-wordpress-theme</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>But the theme works best with the plugin enabled. And not needing the user to download and install a plugin is a better experience.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Cheers,</span><br><span>--Alex</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://alexking.org">http://alexking.org</a> | <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com">http://crowdfavorite.com</a></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>theme-reviewers mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers">http://lists.wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/theme-reviewers</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>