I am offering free wp themes on one of my websites. I want to spice them up by adding a slideshow to the themes. I don't want the slideshow to be installed separately, but built in the theme. When you install the theme, you should automatically have the slideshow installed/activated. How can I do this? Also where can I find a slideshow that has a "free license"? I appreciate any help.
Well - you would need to develop options for the slideshow first (where to fetch images, where to link them to etc..) For the actual slider script, I love the Anything Slider - http://css-tricks.com/examples/AnythingSlider/ Hope this helps.
You easily can create your own WP theme with Slideshow, as you like. Here is tutorial: Billboard - WordPress widget