Plugin info

Total downloads: 6,463
Active installs: 400
Total reviews: 5
Average rating: 4.6
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 4
Last updated: 4/18/2025 (257 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 11/8/2013 (12 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 4.4
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 5.4

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Stale • Last updated 257 days ago • 5 reviews

40/100

Is Lessify WordPress abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 257 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 4.4
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 5.4

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Description

LessCSS

LESS extends CSS with dynamic behaviour such as variables, mixins, operations and functions.Implements LessCSS in order to provide lots of interesting features for the theme development.

How to use ?

Just enqueue the LESS files (with .less extension) as it is usually done for the CSS ones, and the corresponding CSS files will automatically be generated and added to the site.

Important Notes

1.This plugin is based on lessphp by Leaf Corcoran

2.This plugin generates the css file under “/wp-content/uploads/lessify-cache” and therefore you need to define your images and any external links on you less file using the themeurl variable available with this plugin and if you use relative url then it will not work as we are saving the css file in a different location.

3.In order to use themeurl variable with the images you can do something like this

body{ background-image: url(@{themeurl}/images/bg.png); }
the plugin also comes with

another variable lessurl which provides the url where the less file is present.

Installation

  • Download the plugin and extract it.
  • Upload the directory ‘/lessify-wp/’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
  • Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  • That’s it you are done, you can now start creating your less files and enqueue to wordpress.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is lessify wordpress?

Now you can write less directly with your wordpress theme and just enqueue them like the traditional wordpress way. This plugin would take care of the rest of the work.

How to add LESS file to your theme?

To enqueue your less file you can simply do like this
wp_enqueue_style( ‘less-style’, get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/style.less’ );

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Changelog

1.2

  • Updated: plugin updated as per the new wp version 6.8
  • Colde clean up

1.1

  • Fixed: Instalation issue fixed for PHP verison 8.0
  • Code cleanup

1.0

  • Initial release.