In this recipe, you will learn how to extend and customize the Twenty Fourteen WordPress theme with Less.
The Twenty Fourteen theme is a free WordPress theme shipped with the default WordPress installation. For a fresh installation, this theme has been set as the default theme. However, if you have activated another theme already, you will have to reactivate the Twenty Fourteen theme in your dashboard. Navigate to Appearance | Theme Options in your dashboard and do this now.
This recipe also requires that the command-line lessc
compiler, as described in Chapter 1, Getting to Grips with the Basics of Less, is installed. If the web server used for production does not have the command-line lessc
compiler installed, you can compile the Less code on your local machine and upload only the results to your web server.