WordPress: Embed a Plugin to a theme

[frankwaive]

Hello guys,
Am developing a free WordPress theme, and i want to make an already existing responsive image slider plugin a part of the theme such that when the theme is installed and activated, the slider plugin is automatically activated as well.

I don’t want to develop an image slider from scratch for two reasons

1. very good ones already exists

2. since its a free theme, i may not have all the time to provide world class support, so i’d prefer to use something made and regularly update by someone else

[mweldan]

ask people to install it themselves. put it on readme file.

i don’t know if it is possible to activate plugin when activating your theme.

but i know you can call function when activating theme . check add_action or register_activation_hook etc.

maybe call plugin’s function when activating theme?

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