[theme-reviewers] themes with bundled plugins

[Chip Bennett]

Indeed. Our standing practice is that Themes are required to be fully
functional *without* such Plugins being active. Themes can integrate
support for a particular Plugin, or a Plugin can be used to *enhance* a
Theme, but the Theme must function fully without such Plugins.

Chip

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> If a theme in the WordPress Extend repository *requires* a plugin to
> function correctly then that functionality should be built directly into
> the theme itself.
>
> Although it is an interesting piece of code you linked to, allowing for
> theme authors to bundle plugins that are required(?) would open the
> end-user to potentially unsafe code; or at the least, code that may only be
> reviewed when the theme is updated. As the WPTRT has no control over the
> code used in plugins this takes the review process out of our hands leaving
> the potential for unscrupulous authors to do any number of things that are
> not acceptable using the plugins to circumvent the Theme review process.
>
> It is completely within reason for Theme authors to allow for, and use
> conditional code to implement, plugins to add enhanced functionality; and
> make recommendations of what plugins this will be best accomplished with.
> Thus, making them required would not be acceptable ... it is essentially
> saying the theme is broken, and therefore implying it should not be
> approved to begin with.
>
>
> Cais.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Paul de Wouters <pauldewouters at zoho.com>wrote:
>
>> **
>> Now that it's possible to bundle custom plugins with a theme, I wonder if
>> this raises any issues for reviewing themes with such bundled plugins that
>> would be required for the theme to function?
>>
>> http://thomasgriffinmedia.com/blog/2011/09/automatically-install-plugins-with-themes-for-wordpress/
>>
>> <snip>
>
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