Best less plugins for WordPress
The most popular less plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Less PHP Compiler leads with 3K+ active installs, ahead of WP Compiler (900+) and Lessify WordPress (300+). All 11 plugins tagged “less” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 less plugins
- 1.
Less PHP CompilerThe most installed less plugin, with 3K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 2.
WP Compiler900+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.31.
- 3.
Lessify WordPress300+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 5 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
Seemore100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.31.
- 5.
Easy Custom Code (LESS/CSS/JS)100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 4 days ago.
- 6.
Tuxedo CSS Editor70+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 7.
AssetsMinify40+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 19 reviews, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39.
- 8.
Simple LESS10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
- 9.
Less Theme Support10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 10.
Read More Read Less10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
All 11 plugins tagged “less”
Less PHP Compiler
Down in the last 7 days:7#4,167by Ari Stathopoulos9 years ago
Includes the less.php preprocessor so that it may be used by other plugins or themes.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.5(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP Compiler
Down in the last 7 days:12#7,108by Bytes.co8 years ago
Harness the power of pre-processed CSS and minified JS in your theme or plugin, without any complicated installs or build tools.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Lessify WordPress
Up in the last 7 days:14#10,436by Nirmal Kumar Ram2 months ago
Combine the power of WordPress with the power of Less and create something awesome.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.6(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Seemore
Down in the last 7 days:19#14,623by bennettmcelwee8 years ago
Change the (more...) link so that it jumps to the entire post, not just just the part after the (more...).
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Custom Code (LESS/CSS/JS)
Down in the last 7 days:53#15,817by Web3574 days ago
Add custom LESS, CSS, JavaScript and HTML from the WordPress Customizer. No child theme, and your code survives theme updates.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Tuxedo CSS Editor
Down in the last 7 days:136#18,272by Trevor Anderson10 years ago
Realtime CSS editing in the customizer with Sass, Less and Autoprefixer support.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
AssetsMinify
#22,032by Alessandro Carbone11 years ago
Use Compass, Sass, Less, Stylus, CoffeeScript (and more ...) to develop your themes and minify your stylesheets and JavaScript.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 4.9(19)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple LESS
Up in the last 7 days:10,296#36,144by rfair40414 years ago
A simple way to start using LESS in your theme. Just add a file named theme.less to your active theme's directory.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Less Theme Support
#43,169by Justin Kopepasah12 years ago
Enables support feature for using Less in a theme.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Read More Read Less
Down in the last 7 days:3,075#45,278by Shashank Kumar Gaur8 years ago
So easy and lightweight plugin that helps you to show some portion of large data and show and hide on button click. Also if there is any URL in that l …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
LESS Compiler
Down in the last 7 days:10,521#46,301by WebMaestro.Fr12 years ago
LESS compiler for WordPress. Allows you to write and compile LESS, and to edit style variables straight into your WordPress dashboard.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day