Roots Theme

Roots is a starting WordPress theme made for developers that’s based on HTML5 Boilerplate and Bootstrap from Twitter.

Installation

• Clone the git repo - git clone git://github.com/retlehs/roots.git - or download it
• Read Theme Activation to understand everything that happens once you activate Roots

Configuration

Edit inc/config.php to enable support for major functionality and to define constants that are used throughout the theme.

Features

• HTML5 Boilerplate’s markup and .htaccess
• Bootstrap from Twitter
• Root relative URLs
• Clean URLs (no more /wp-content/)
• All static theme assets are rewritten to the website root (/css/, /img/, and /js/)
• Cleaner HTML output of navigation menus
• Cleaner output of wp_head and enqueued scripts/styles
• Posts use the hNews microformat
• Multilingual ready (English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Macedonian, Finnish, Danish, Turkish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Norwegian, Catalan, Polish, Hungarian, Russian)

Contributing

Everyone is welcome to help improve this project. There are several ways you can contribute:

• Reporting issues (please read issue guidelines)
• Suggesting new features
• Writing or editing docs
• Writing or refactoring code
• Fixing issues
• Replying to questions on the mailing list
• Donating

Project information

• Source: https://github.com/retlehs/roots
• Web: http://www.rootstheme.com/
• Docs: https://github.com/retlehs/roots/wiki
• Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/roots-theme
• Twitter: @retlehs
• Contributors: https://github.com/retlehs/roots/contributors

License

Major components:

• HTML5 Boilerplate: The Unlicense
• Modernizr: MIT/BSD license
• jQuery: MIT/GPL license
• Normalize.css: Public Domain
• Bootstrap: Apache 2.0 license

Everything else:

The Unlicense (aka: public domain)