Integrating WP Plugins/Widgets into your theme

Tonight I'm trying to figure out how to integrate widgets I write into my theme.  This way, when the user install the theme, the widgets will be there for them to use.

To do so you just need to:

• import all the widget files into your theme directory
• Make sure any hardcoded paths or plugin_urls are changed to get_template_directory_uri() and the correct path.
• Add a require_once to your functions.php with the path of your widget's php file inside.

Notes:

• When integrating make sure to delete it from the plugins directory or else you'll get an error that says you can't redefine that class.

Now that I have shortcodes and integrating plugins/widgets into the theme I can now start working on making an advanced admin panel.  This admin panel would include the following options:

• Change logo/if you want a logo at all.
• Change background image/color.
• Change link color.
• Change header text color.
• Custom css.
• Insert google analytic code.
• Enable/disable image slider.
• Enable/disable jQuery.

All of these need to be placed in a tab for their category of option in the options panel too.  That's all for tomorrow night though cause tonight's energy drink is wearing off already.