Title: Hard Code Plugin into theme?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Hard Code Plugin into theme?

 *  [mr orange](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mr-orange/)
 * (@mr-orange)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hard-code-plugin-into-theme/)
 * I am trying to hard code the featured posts widget plugin into my theme. Does
   anyone know how to do this?

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 *  [fonglh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fonglh/)
 * (@fonglh)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hard-code-plugin-into-theme/#post-2291460)
 * why would you want to do this? you’ll lose the features when you change theme.
 *  Thread Starter [mr orange](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mr-orange/)
 * (@mr-orange)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hard-code-plugin-into-theme/#post-2291493)
 * I only want that functionality built into the theme I am developing
 *  Moderator [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/)
 * (@numeeja)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hard-code-plugin-into-theme/#post-2291494)
 * You should be able to add the code into your themes’s functions.php
 *  Thread Starter [mr orange](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mr-orange/)
 * (@mr-orange)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hard-code-plugin-into-theme/#post-2291580)
 * That’s what I thought, but it didn’t seem to work. It broke my theme. I was wondering
   if anyone knew of a tutorial or something for this.
 *  Moderator [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/)
 * (@numeeja)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hard-code-plugin-into-theme/#post-2291652)
 * Which specific plugin is it you are trying to adapt into your theme? There are
   a few with similar names. You won;t get a specific tutorial, but there may be
   things you’d have to look out for such as paths to files.
 * Unless its a simple one-function plugin I wouldn’t bother adding it into the 
   theme – I would make it a required plugin and provide a link to it in the readme
   file for the theme

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 * [hard-code](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hard-code/)
 * [widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widget/)

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 * Last reply from: [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hard-code-plugin-into-theme/#post-2291652)
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