Title: Problem when copying a theme and using LESS
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Problem when copying a theme and using LESS

 *  [brainlien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brainlien/)
 * (@brainlien)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-when-copying-a-theme-and-using-less/)
 * So I have a theme I use as a template for different sites. I recently started
   using LESS, compiling it locally and uploading the compiled style.css to my WordPress.
 * So I will edit my template to how I want it and then I’ll make a .zip of that
   theme and install it for my new website. Everything will be fine **until** I 
   edit some .less and compile a new style.css for my new website. It seems to lose
   all of my custom CSS.
 * Please let me know if I can provide anything else to help.
 * Thanks!

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