[theme-reviewers] Automatic installation of plugins with themes

[Daniel]

Yeah I'm pretty sure that is ok as long as it not force install.
Regards,
Daniel Fenn






On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Christine Rondeau
<christine at bluelimemedia.com> wrote:
> If you look at Devin's theme portfolio press -
> http://wordpress.org/themes/portfolio-press
> once you've installed the theme, there's a message alerting you to the fact
> that to have a portfolio, you need to install the plugin.
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> The theme is perfectly fine without it, but that features requires theme
> installation.
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> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 7:45 PM, JamesLaws <james at wpninjas.com> wrote:
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>> I see. The theme would work without the plugin but I was going for some
>> functionality that I wanted to have instantly available but not suitable to
>> be built into the theme itself. Just trying to figure out the best way to
>> make it easy for the user so they don’t have to think about installing the
>> plugin themselves. I guess I’ll need to go in a different direction.
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>> James Laws
>> wpninjas.com
>> twitter.com/jameslaws
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>> On March 17, 2014 at 10:35:22 PM, Daniel (danielx386 at gmail.com) wrote:
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>> No the theme must work without any extra plugins installed. You can
>> add support for then but you can't force install the plugin.
>> Regards,
>> Daniel Fenn
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>> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:33 PM, JamesLaws <james at wpninjas.com> wrote:
>> > I’m certain this has beed discussed but I just can’t recall or find it
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>> > the moment. If I have a theme where I want to integrate some required
>> > plugin, also hosted in the WordPress repo, is it ok to have the plugin
>> > automatically installed and activated as long as I document it with the
>> > theme?
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>> > James Laws
>> > wpninjas.com
>> > twitter.com/jameslaws
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