Underscores community project contributors announced today that the theme now includes support for Sass. The popular WordPress starter theme is an open source project maintained by Automattic, and many of its users requested Sass support, according to contributor Tammie Lister. “The community firstly asked for Sass. As Sass is in core, this makes sense. It…
Last week we featured a plugin that adds the Less CSS preprocessor to WordPress themes. Several of our readers were wondering if there was a Sass equivalent to the plugin. Although not structured entirely the same as the Less Theme Support plugin, which uses add_theme_support, the WP-SCSS plugin provides a decent Sass counterpart. WP-SCSS compiles…
Nearly a year ago, Chris Wallace proposed that the WordPress core adopt a CSS Preprocessor to help move admin UI CSS into the future. Including a CSS preprocessor allows developers to speed up tasks with the use of variables in stylesheets. Variables will make tasks like reskinning the WordPress admin a breeze. Wallace argued strongly…