Include in a theme

Hi.

I’m using a child theme of twentyfourteen and I would like to include the plugin within the theme itself so that the function is automatically activated when the theme is activated (I’m providing several blogs with a half a dozen themes on a multisite network).

The plugin itself works fine when activated through plugins, but for several reasons I don’t give users access to plugin activation, so I’ve been trying to include it through my functions.php file. I either can’t get it to load, or can”t get it to work, I’m not sure which.

I know this isn’t related to the plugin itself not working, but I would greatly appreciate a hand with this.

cheers.

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