Title: Integrate polylang plugin in theme
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Integrate polylang plugin in theme

 *  [Ruben Damink](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ruben-damink/)
 * (@ruben-damink)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/integrate-polylang-plugin-in-theme/)
 * I want to integrate the polylang plugin with my themefolder and use it from there.
   Here are my questions:
    1.: Do I upload the zipcontents from the download or 
   do I only need a part? 2.: What do I add to my `functions.php` file to make this
   happen? If you use a referance, please also add an example(I sometimes struggle
   with abbrivations and referances). 3.: My themename differs from my folder name,
   which name is used in the `functions.php`? 4.: I am using advanced custom fields.
   How am I gonna make this work? 5.: Does this plugin have an official website 
   and a proper and complete FAQ, so even impatient and average joe like me can 
   figure out how this stuff works? Right now it feels like rocket science. Out 
   of the last 30 searches I did, using google, only 2 returned a remote referance
   to this issue. I conclude that your SEO sucks. Even stackoverflow is a ghosttown
   I regards to this plugin.
 * Sorry if it sounds like a rant, but I would really like to implement it in my
   theme and I’d like a clear and direct answer. Explain like I’m a 6 year old if
   you need to.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/)
 * (@chouby)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/integrate-polylang-plugin-in-theme/#post-6871705)
 * Hi!
 * Basically it’s generally not possible to integrate a plugin into a theme. Indeed
   WordPress plugins and themes work differently and plugins are loaded much *before*
   the theme.
 *  Thread Starter [Ruben Damink](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ruben-damink/)
 * (@ruben-damink)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/integrate-polylang-plugin-in-theme/#post-6871710)
 * Well that was a short and abrupt ending to my hopes and dreams. Any chance we
   can ever see this happen in the future? It would save me some update troubles
   with my clients.
 * Any chance we can see a possibillity for this happen in the future?
 *  Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/)
 * (@chouby)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/integrate-polylang-plugin-in-theme/#post-6871712)
 * I am not part of the WordPress core team. But I guess that it would be extremely
   difficult to change WordPress (and break a lot of things…) to allow it to load
   a theme before the plugins.
 *  Thread Starter [Ruben Damink](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ruben-damink/)
 * (@ruben-damink)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/integrate-polylang-plugin-in-theme/#post-6871724)
 * I always thought it would be possible to add plugins to themes natively by adding
   stuff to the functions.php. I don’t know. I haven’t been developing for that 
   long.

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 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ruben Damink](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ruben-damink/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/integrate-polylang-plugin-in-theme/#post-6871724)
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