[theme-reviewers] theme-reviewers Digest, Vol 12, Issue 6

[Josh Stauffer]

Thanks for this, Ryan.

What about an admin notice with a link to the plugin repository. Something
like... "The Whatchamacallit plugin is required for this theme to function
properly. Install now <http://#>."

Anyone have any thoughts on this approach?

Josh


On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Ryan Hellyer <ryan at pixopoint.com> wrote:

> Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 09:42:59 -0500
>> From: Josh Stauffer <joshstauffer at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Bundling Plugins
>> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
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>> Just as Chip described is how I am going about it in my theme development.
>>
>> Although, I am interested to find out more about the "automatic install
>> and
>> activate" that Ryan is referring to. Any tutorials on this?
>>
>> Josh
>>
>
> David Gwyer asked me about that a while ago:
>
> http://www.wptavern.com/forum/themes-templates/2120-installing-plugins-during-theme-installation.html.
> The solution I posted there isn't optimal and I think copying the plugin
> directly from the plugin repository would make more sense to ensure only up
> to date versions are included.
> <http://www.wptavern.com/forum/themes-templates/2120-installing-plugins-during-theme-installation.html>
>
> I think allowing themes to install their own plugins is important to allow.
> Otherwise it creates a situation in which the theme authors are either
> limited in the scope in which they can build themes, or are forced to jerry
> rig plugins into the theme itself. Neither of which I assume anyone wants to
> see.
>
> Imagine a theme which requires custom post-types to perform the task it was
> designed for. That theme would either be ineligible to be in the repository,
> or would be forced to put plugin functionality into the theme, despite it
> making far more sense for that custom post-type to be implemented as a
> plugin. That isn't a common situation, but I wouldn't like to see rare
> situations like that being blocked from the official theme repository.
> Another solution would be to require the user to manually download a plugin
> to use the theme, but then you have a situation where a theme on it's own
> will not function without forcing the user to dork around installing a
> plugin just to make it work.
>
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