commercial plugins in themes

Hi,

I’m considering doing some theming myself, and submitting for sale here at TF.

My question is this: can i use commercial [wordpress] plugins in a theme I build (one that won’t be included in the theme download), as long as I mention in the notes etc that the plugin XYZ is not included in the theme, but shown for demonstration purposes?

What is the protocol on this please?

Thanks a lot!

I think you’ll piss off too many customers and it won’t be worth it (believe me customers don’t always read the file descriptions)

I hear you, but in terms of TF rules and regs etc, is it allowed?

The plugins won’t take center stage or anything, and will be made loud and clear that they are not included.

But again I hear you… thanks for your reply.

well just my 2 cents. But good luck with your first file regardless

thanks a lot.

Hey how come no one respond the right answer to this question? I have exact same question. Can anyone please respond? Would greatly help us newbies here.

Here is the right answer.

You can support plugins in your theme. Just list it as a feature that this theme supports what ever the plugin is. You can’t require the plugin. Now you need to learn how to check if that plugin is active before you do anything to support it. Do this by doing a conditional if ( class_exists( ‘class_from_plugin’) ) { support plugin. }