Title: [Plugin: WordPress Shortcodes] about licence!
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: WordPress Shortcodes] about licence!

 *  Resolved [godesigny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/godesigny/)
 * (@godesigny)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-shortcodes-about-licence/)
 * hello;
 * thank you for the great work!
 * i’m building a theme to buy it in themeforest marketplace & i want to use this
   plugin as a built-in function within the theme.
 * can you allow me to do that? (of course i’ve to write your plugin in the description
   with a link to it)
 * & please save a lot of time for me & tell me how to do that if you allow me? (
   i mean convert it to built-in function)
 * thank you again.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/synved-shortcodes/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/synved-shortcodes/)

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 *  [Japh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/japh/)
 * (@japh)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-shortcodes-about-licence/#post-3042599)
 * Hello Godesigny,
 * This plugin is GPL2, so you can package it with your theme, providing you include
   the relevant license information.
 * It would be better to leave it as a plugin rather than build it into your theme,
   then customers will continue to get updates etc. when the plugin is updated. 
   Otherwise you will need to update your theme every time there’s an update to 
   the plugin to keep it current.
 * A good way to include plugins and ensure they’re loaded with your theme, is to
   use the TGM Plugin Activation class, which you can find here: [https://github.com/thomasgriffin/TGM-Plugin-Activation](https://github.com/thomasgriffin/TGM-Plugin-Activation)
 * That class will actually allow you to use the plugin directly from the directory
   too! I made a brief intro video on how to use the class here: [http://wp.tutsplus.com/articles/intro-to-tgm-plugin-activation-class-for-wordpress/](http://wp.tutsplus.com/articles/intro-to-tgm-plugin-activation-class-for-wordpress/)
 * Good luck!
 *  Thread Starter [godesigny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/godesigny/)
 * (@godesigny)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-shortcodes-about-licence/#post-3042600)
 * thank you japh this a big great information to me
 *  [Japh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/japh/)
 * (@japh)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-shortcodes-about-licence/#post-3042602)
 * My absolute pleasure! 😀

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-shortcodes-about-licence/#post-3042602)
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