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Roberto Cabrera
1,149 PointsThis video advise to use two plugins, advance custom fields, and custom post type ui. Why?
what about if the user who downloads my theme do not have those 2 plugins? Will my theme fail?
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Daniel Leeman
8,894 PointsThis is a great question. I think it would be really helpful to have the theme development course focused on being able to package a theme for distribution (which is probably want more aspiring developers want to be able to do, rather than just modify a theme for single use).
The solution I am looking at is programmatically creating the custom post types (and meta fields) and putting it in a simple plugin. Then I'll use TMG Plugin Activation: http://wptavern.com/tgm-plugin-activation-library-publishes-roadmap-for-version-3-0 to require plugins for install with the theme.
From what I can tell, this is best practice - including custom post types in the theme is bad practice and will cause it to be rejected from most theme shops (like ThemeForest), but the method outlined in the current Treehouse course content does not seem suitable for distributing themes - we don't want to have end-users download two additional plugins and configure.