[theme-reviewers] Plugin install within theme

[Chip Bennett]

See the previous discussion thread on this one. I'm (personally) very much
against bundling stand-alone Plugins with Themes. We are *Theme* reviewers,
not *Plugin* reviewers, and I think it is unfair and unwise to ask Theme
reviewers to review/approve Plugin code.

(A similar argument regarding an *integrated* Plugin: there are very few
such integrated Plugins that would not fall into Plugin territory; and even
with appropriately integrated Plugins - such as, say, WP PageNavi - that
integration has to be done properly, so as not to cause problems should the
user have the integrated Plugin already installed/activated.)

On the other hand: providing a script to facilitate installation of a
Plugin hosted on WPORG is perfectly acceptable.


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Zulfikar Nore <zulfikarnore at live.com>wrote:

> The two statements left me a little baffled.
>
> One states "and not bundled with the theme" and the other "*must* be
> installed from the WPORG directory".
>
> Does this mean that the plugin can not be included in say a sub folder of
> the theme but has to be uploaded to WPORG first? Or by "not bundled" mean
> not integrated in the theme?
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:04:15 -0500
> From: chip at chipbennett.net
> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Plugin install within theme
>
>
> Also: the Plugin *must* be installed from the WPORG directory, and not
> from an arbitrary, external site.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> thats allowed as long as the plugin is optional and not bundled with the
> theme.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:23 PM, ethan anwar <ethananwar at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>  Hello everybody!
>
> I'm currently reviewing the Covera Lite theme -
> https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15917 and found that the theme
> suggests a plugin and also gives the user the possibility to install that
> plugin from the dashboard with a custom script
> (functions/plugin-activation.php).
>
> I was wondering what's the review policy on this, if there is one.
>
> Thanks a lot guys,
> Kay
>
>
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