Title: Binding plugins with theme
Last modified: February 28, 2019

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# Binding plugins with theme

 *  [SaeedTJ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saeedtj/)
 * (@saeedtj)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/binding-plugins-with-theme/)
 * hello
    is there anyway to bind plugins with themes?

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/binding-plugins-with-theme/#post-11261097)
 * It depends on what you mean by bind and what your plans are for your theme. You
   could replicate the process that WP uses to download and extract theme files.
   Then with user approval, activate.
 * But if you plan to submit your theme to the WP repository, don’t do this. Repository
   themes cannot require plugins to be operational. You can suggest users install
   certain plugins for better functionality, but you cannot require it and your 
   theme has to provide all essential functionality without a plugin.
 * Outside of the repository, you can do anything that’s legal. Other theme distribution
   platforms will have their own requirements that may or may not allow this.

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 * [binding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/binding/)

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 * Last reply from: [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/binding-plugins-with-theme/#post-11261097)
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