I am creating some sliders type functionality for my wordpress theme and I thought that creating two seperate db tables like 'sliders' and 'slider_images' is a good idea.
My problem is that i don't know what is the best way to handle the creation of those tables. If it was a plugin, I would just do it on activation, but it is just some functionality as part of my theme and i haven't really found a hook that is executed once when the theme is activated.
If possible, i would like to not have to check the database for the existence of tables in every page refresh and create if not. Is there a way to do that ?
