Activate plugins by a theme's functions.php

  • Is it possible to activate plugins per theme?

    I have a multisite, and I know it is possible to activate plugins per site. But I need plugins to be enabled for specific themes.

    Someone asked a similar question – if it is possible to activate plugins by other plugins: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/4041/how-to-activate-plugins-via-code

    This was an accepted answer:

    //Activate a plugin programmatically - Akismet example

    function run_activate_plugin( $plugin ) {
    $current = get_option( 'active_plugins' );
    $plugin = plugin_basename( trim( $plugin ) );

    if ( !in_array( $plugin, $current ) ) {
        $current[] = $plugin;
        sort( $current );
        do_action( 'activate_plugin', trim( $plugin ) );
        update_option( 'active_plugins', $current );
        do_action( 'activate_' . trim( $plugin ) );
        do_action( 'activated_plugin', trim( $plugin) );
    }

    return null;
}
run_activate_plugin( 'akismet/akismet.php' );

    However someone commented about this not being very safe and I’m also not sure if this would be a good idea to add to a theme’s functions.php file.

    I added this above code to a themes functions.php to activate some plugins and so far this is working without any problems. Would I run into problems with this, or is there some better code to use? There is also this function activate_plugin() not sure if that function is a better way to activate plugins.

    I am not very good with code, any help appreciated.

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  • You can try by activating plugin on theme activation hook.

    `function myactivationfunction($oldname, $oldtheme=false) {
    //write code to activate plugin for that you can use activate_plugins ();

    //activate_plugins ( string|array $plugins, string $redirect = ”, bool $network_wide = false, bool $silent = false )
    }
    add_action(“after_switch_theme”, “myactivationfunction”, 10 , 2);

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