Now that we've downloaded WordPress, we need to ensure we have a working environment available in order to work with Less.
Each person's environment might differ, but to get the most benefit out of the exercises that follow, you will need to ensure that you at least have the following:
A working copy of WordPress that can be customized—ideally, this will be locally hosted using a web server such as WAMP (for Windows, available at http://www.wampserver.com), or MAMP (for Mac, available at http://www.mamp.info). Alternatively, you might have some online webspace available for use—this will work as well, although you might find the automation exercises at the end of this chapter hard to do.
For the purposes of the book, I will assume WampServer is installed; change accordingly, if your server is different.
A copy of Node.js installed along with Grunt; we covered how to install both earlier in Chapter 2, Building a Less Development Toolkit.
A text editor of your choice—there...