Automating WordPress development
If you spend any time developing themes, you will no doubt know that it is a manual process, which takes time. Themes often require careful tweaking and retesting; it can get particularly tedious when recompiling Less files!
Fortunately, there are a number of solutions available to relieve some of the tedium experienced when developing WordPress themes; the most popular option is to use a package we first met back in Chapter 2, Building a Less Development Toolkit. It's time to revisit using Grunt!
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For the more experienced, it is worth looking online for lessphp, which is a port of Less to PHP. There is code available that allows direct compilation within WordPress, in much the same way as we will cover in this ...
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