Auto-install plugins when activating a theme.

Some people have done that, but right now WP isn’t headed that way, as there’s no good way to maintain the ‘packages’.

You can add some extra code to your theme which will check if all required plugins are active. If not, display error/warning message in admin backend.

Ok, can somebody post some sample code…?

Yes, I could really do with the same sample code too. I searched on google and could not find anything helpful. I am finding a bit of a nightmare to embed a slideshow plugin within my theme, it cannot link to the images in uploads folder.

https://wpcandy.com/reports/the-tgm-plugin-activation-class-on-github

Some info here which may be interesting to you

Thanks! this works!

Yes, looks great! It should be included in wordpress.

https://github.com/thomasgriffin/TGM-Plugin-Activation

adrian7,

The code in TGMPA makes use of all the WP code anyway for unzipping a plugin and installing it. All we’ve done is provide a way for theme authors to say “Hey, this theme NEEDS this plugin to work properly”, and a way for users to say “OK, sure, install and activate that plugin then” – plugins can be included with the theme, pulled from the .org repo, or from anywhere else online.

As such, it kinda already is *in* WordPress – we’ve just made it easier to access.

This is great particularly because it opens up huge possibilities for non developers like me to design themes by including plugins without the need for extra coding. There must be 1000s of designers who cannot code a plugin within a theme who will welcome your TGMPA.
Saying that, a single button to install all plugins at once would be even better. Thank you

Bulk install is one of the future features we plan on adding in.

@garyj, good stuff, I’ve been dropping your link to folks a lot lately!

As Gary has mentioned, Bulk install is one of the features we plan on implementing once we chisel away at a few other pressing issues (like consolidating nag messages). Bulk install will be huge when it is functioning ??