Title: Remove /styles.css?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Remove /styles.css?

 *  Resolved [clairefritz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clairefritz/)
 * (@clairefritz)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-stylescss/)
 * Hello!
 * I am currently cleaning up my WP theme of all the unnecessary files and especially
   tidy up the file-soup at the root of my theme. I use SASS, and I’m compiling 
   the CSS to a sub-folder… Which leaves me with an empty styles.css at the root
   of my theme, and when I delete it, the theme breaks. Is there any way to tell
   WP to not look for it? It’s not even included anywhere.
 * Thanks in advance for your help!
 * Claire

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 *  [Amin – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support2/)
 * (@wpmudev-support2)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-stylescss/#post-5674309)
 * Hey there clairefritz,
 * Hope you’re well! 🙂
 * I guess you are doing it right! 🙂 Not putting anything on the style.css ( except
   of-course the meta code ) . I’m afraid you can’t delete it since the meta code
   there is the one declaring that the whole folder is indeed a WordPress theme.
   Just leave it and put all the css code in a sub-folder like you do. 🙂
 * Hope it helps! 🙂
 * Best Regards,
    Calvin

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