How to include wp-postviews plugin directly in the theme

Question

I don't want to ask the user to install this and that plugin, I want my theme to be 100% active active without the need to install a plugin like wp-postviews plugin, so how can i do that. I want to include it directly in functions.php file? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

That was so easy! I just included the plugin folder in my theme Then i included it.

 include(your-theme-path . 'wp-postviews/wp-postviews.php');

That was it!

Answer 2

You could include the particular plugin in your theme directory and then fire a function on after_switch_theme:

add_action( 'after_switch_theme', 'fwp_theme_setup' );
function fwp_theme_setup(){ 
    require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/wp-admin/includes/plugin.php');
    activate_plugin('your-theme/plugin-dir/plugin.php');
}

You should also take a look at after_setup_theme always runs