Easy Custom Code (LESS/CSS/JS) – Live Editing vs Performance Optimization

The Easy Custom Code WordPress Plugin lets you easily customize your WordPress website by adding your own LESS, CSS, and JavaScript code directly via the built-in WP Customizer. With this plugin, there’s no need for a child theme or additional files. Simply insert your custom code, and it will be compiled into a minified CSS file for styles and a JavaScript file for scripts. This lightweight plugin is designed for ease of use, providing a seamless and organized way to manage custom styling and scripts without affecting core theme files. VIDEO (How it works?) FEATURES Easily add custom LESS, CSS, and JavaScript to your site. Manage unlimited external stylesheets and scripts via a modal window. Control JavaScript placement (head or footer) for optimized performance. Insert custom HTML in key areas: Inside the tag. Immediately after the opening tag. Before the closing tag. PRO FEATURES Minified CSS Output – Option to enable automatic minification of compiled CSS. Full-Screen Editor – Maximize the code editor for a distraction-free coding experience. What is LESS? LESS is a CSS preprocessor that allows for variables, nested rules, mixins, and more, making your stylesheets more efficient and maintainable. LESS code: @global_color: #FF0000; @global_font_size: 14px; @secondary_color: #CCC; body { color: @global_color; font-size: @global_font_size; } .container { color: @secondary_color; font-size: @global_font_size * 2; } Outputs the following CSS: body { color: #FF0000; font-size: 14px; } .container { color: #CCC; font-size: 24px; } For full LESS documentation, visit lesscss.org. Demo Try Demo Username: demo Password: demo

Did you ever read about Optimization of website/blog through ordering styles and Scripts in head section? If you like your website load in browser as quickly as possible then you may have read in performance optimization tips that you should move all CSS files on top and script at last in HTML head section . How do you order those calls? If you are manually putting CSS and JavaScript files in head section ( ), then you can do this very easily. Just modify once and optimization for this is over. What if you are using plugins and that are adding calls to JavaScript and CSS files dynamically. This is case of WordPress blog, where we use many plugins and those plugins add various Styles and Script files dynamically from wp_head() call. If above lines, do not makes much sense to you then probably you have not read this documentation on Google. The plugin will also collect different inline scripts to one place. Thus making the source code look better. To check, if the plugin is doing anything or not, compare the Head section before and after activating the plugin. (For reading more details discussion, follow the Plugin link on right side.) Author (satya61229) About page on WP