How to include mailchimp plugin with wordpress theme - wordpress

Question

I’m working on WordPress theme, and this theme has email subscription widget. So I want to include MailChimp plugin to the theme. How to do that?

Answer 1

Sorry bro you can't use mailchimp plugin in you theme as a embedded plugin. But you can use TGM plugin activation file to include plugin to your theme. Download a copy of TGM class file from here TGM plugin activation class and just copy the class-tgm-plugin-activation.php file to your theme directory and add below codes to your theme's functions.php file ..
<?php
require get_template_directory() . '/class-tgm-plugin-activation.php'; //add your file path where you put the file
add_action( 'tgmpa_register', 'something_register_required_plugins' );
function something_register_required_plugins() {
$plugins = array(
array(
'name' => 'Mailchimp',
'slug' => 'mailchimp',
'required' => true,
),
);
$config = array(
'id' => 'something', // Unique ID for hashing notices for multiple instances of TGMPA.
'default_path' => '', // Default absolute path to bundled plugins.
'menu' => 'tgmpa-install-plugins', // Menu slug.
'parent_slug' => 'themes.php', // Parent menu slug.
'capability' => 'edit_theme_options', // Capability needed to view plugin install page, should be a capability associated with the parent menu used.
'has_notices' => true, // Show admin notices or not.
'dismissable' => true, // If false, a user cannot dismiss the nag message.
'dismiss_msg' => '', // If 'dismissable' is false, this message will be output at top of nag.
'is_automatic' => false, // Automatically activate plugins after installation or not.
'message' => '', // Message to output right before the plugins table.
);
tgmpa( $plugins, $config );
}
?>
This will create a suggestion to your users to install mailchimp plugin from the wordpress.org repository