WP LESS to CSS

This plugin helps you to build and maintain your website with LESS.

Author:Bass Jobsen (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:3.6
WordPress version tested:3.7.38
Plugin version:1.0
Added to WordPress repository:07-12-2013
Last updated:07-12-2013
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Plugin URI:https://github.com/bassjobsen/wp-less-to-css
Total downloads:1 270
Active installs:20+
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This plugin helps you to build and maintain your website with LESS. LESS is a dynamic stylesheet language.
LESS extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions.
This plugin is build with: LESS.php

Profits

  • No extra checks (server time) to load your lastest CSS
  • LESS editor for small changes or child themes

Examples and usages

wpless2css/wpless2css.less will be your master LESS file. Add your LESS code here or import other LESS files.

All LESS files should be place in wpless2css/ for now.

wpless2css/wpless2css.less could contain simple or more complex LESS code like:

p{color:red;}

Or more complex intergrate Twitter’s Bootstrap’s CSS:

  • Download the latest version from:
  • Copy all *.less to wpless2css/

  • edit wpless2css/wpless2css.less

    @import “bootstrap.less”;

Load Glypchicons:

  • Copy all /fonts/ to your web server

  • edit wpless2css/wpless2css.less

    @import “bootstrap.less”;
    @icon-font-path: /fonts/;

**Note:*: Go to the settings and save settings after changing you LESS code to create a new CSS file.

If you website or theme is primary Bootstrap based condsider to use Custom Bootstrap Editor.

Theme developers

Call wp-less-to-css.php from your functions.php to bundle the plugin:

require dirname(__FILE__) . '/vendor/wp-less-to-css/wp-less-to-css.php';

Save the CSS (conditional) automatic by adding to your function.php:

$updatecss = WP_LESS_to_CSS::$instance;
$updatecss->wpless2csssavecss();

Only save the CSS on changes. Compile a new CSS every time your page loads will make your site slow, but you can use it for testing.

Use the save action after changes via the customizer for example:

add_action( 'customize_save_after', 'lesscustomize' );

function lesscustomize($setting)
{
//$setting is no used here, see also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14802251/hook-into-the-wordpress-theme-customizer-save-action
$updatecss = WP_LESS_to_CSS::$instance;
add_filter( 'add_extra_less_code', 'add_extra_less_now_live');
function add_extra_less_now_live($parser)
{
    return 'a{color:'.get_theme_mod( 'heading_color').'} p{color:orange;}';          
}
$updatecss->wpless2csssavecss();
}

Depending on your needs wpless2css/wpless2css.less can be moved from root to the theme or child theme directory (wp-content/themes/{yourtheme}/wpless2css/wpless2css.less).

Contribute!

If you have suggestions for a new feature or improvement, feel free to contact us on Twitter. Alternatively, you can fork the plugin from Github.

Requirements

Support

We are always happy to help you. If you have any question regarding this code. Send us a message or contact us on twitter @JamedoWebsites.