WP-LESS

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 76% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

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1. ★★★★★ marcrock

   9.6y ago

   Nice to work with it. Thank you very much!

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2. ★★★★★ Makapaka

   10.5y ago

   This plugin is fast and error free. It allows to easly add Less support to your WP theme. No needed configuration, just treat your *.less files like regular *.css in your theme’s directory.

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3. ★★★★★ alvinkonda

   10.5y ago

   Thank you for this amazing plugin, it saves us Theme Developers lots of time with this simple implementation directly from the theme. i love the passing of variables as well. The only thing im not yet figuring it out is the CSS generated from the plugin doent cache, am i missing sth?

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4. ★★★★★ Marie-Aude

   10.7y ago

   A wonderful tool to get rid of headers bloated with css. Thanks a lot.

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5. ★★★★★ qiujumper

   11.8y ago

   Hi dude, I love this plugin,but I notice that there is no setting to display the line number of source code in the compiled,it makes it harder for developer to debug the css,I have read the doc in github, still can’t find it, can you help us about this? Please forgive my poor English,I’m a wp developer from Shanghai,China.

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6. ★★★★★ SSAndAssociates

   11.8y ago

   Makes using Less in WordPress simple. Just include your .less file in your functions.php file.

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7. ★★★★★ matijamrkaic

   11.8y ago

   Simple and straightforward with amazing caching system. Never failed me. Thank you!

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8. ★★★★★ SodaBicarbona

   12.3y ago

   THNX for WP-LESS – saves a lot of time

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.9.0 feature: default less compiler is now wikimedia/less.php ( #117 ) feature: output is compressed by default 1.9.0
2. — Version 1.8.0 feature: default less compiler is now oyejorge/less.php ( #90 1.8.0
3. — Version 1.7.6 info: updated vendored lessphp libraries versions (oyejorge/[email protected]) 1.7.6
4. — Version 1.7.5 feature: now works properly in the admin side ( #68 ) 1.7.5
5. — Version 1.7.4 feature: favour composer autoload to manual PHP require ( #64 ) 1.7.4
6. — Version 1.7.3 bug: fixed the LESS library loading ( #63 ) doc: documented the new LESS library swapping 1.7.3

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 5.3 WP-LESS <= 1.9.6 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Disclosure ↗
   2025-04-01 CVE-2025-31550 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Affects <= 1.9.6 Patched in 1.9.7

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.1

Translated into 1 language, 1 at 90% or more · development strings

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-01-22 20K+ → 10K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• WP Add Custom CSS 60K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags B
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• Simple Custom CSS Plugin 100K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag C
• BlossomThemes Toolkit 30K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag C
• Snazzy Maps 30K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag C
• Core Framework 10K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A

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WP-LESS: 10K+ active installs, 4.6★ (19 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-less