WordPress theme functionality

  • Lersz

    (@lersz)


    14 years, 4 months ago

    Hello. I’m new to WordPress.

    Is it a common practice to integrate a WordPress plugin to e.g. a premium theme that is to be sold on the web, in a way that the user don’t have to activate the plugin? If so, how it’s done? For example, if a theme takes use of common jQuery plugins such as Nivo and has some tabbed content functionality, are these sorts of things implemented without the use of ready WordPress plugins? Thanks.

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    14 years, 4 months ago

    Is it a common practice to integrate a WordPress plugin to e.g. a premium theme that is to be sold on the web, in a way that the user don’t have to activate the plugin?

    …

    are these sorts of things implemented without the use of ready WordPress plugins?

    Common enough, but not normally from a plugin. Some themes add support for things like integrated Google Maps and wrote the short code functionality directly into the theme’s functions.php.

    Bundling a plugin would work if you integrated the code into your theme’s functions.php file. But would be a challenge to keep that copy up-to-date so I don’t recommend that.

    If it’s code you’ve written then you’ll maintain it. If it’s from a different author then easier to just add to the theme’s documentation or admin page notes like “This theme supports XYV plugin, please install a copy yourself.”

    Thread Starter Lersz

    (@lersz)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks Jan, just the info I was looking for.

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