Roots is a starting WordPress theme made for developers that’s based on HTML5 Boilerplate and Starkers that will help you rapidly create brochure sites and blogs.
Roots includes support for Blueprint CSS, 960 Grid System, 1140px Grid, Adapt.js, LESS, Foundation, and Bootstrap with the ability to set site-wide classes for the main content area and the sidebar. There's also the option to not use any CSS framework.
- 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
- HTML5 Boilerplate's markup, style, and .htaccess
- Popular CSS frameworks included (with the option to use none)
- 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
- Root relative URLs
- Posts use the hNews microformat
- The gallery shortcode has been modified to use
<figure>and<figcaption> wp_headhas been cleaned up along with the output of enqueued styles and scripts- Robots.txt optimized for SEO
- Multilingual ready (English, French, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Macedonian, Finnish, and Danish)
Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute. There are several ways you can help out:
- Raising issues on GitHub
- Sending pull requests for bug fixes or new features and improvements
- Making the docs better
- Replying to questions on the mailing list
- Source: https://github.com/retlehs/roots
- Web: http://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
- HTML5 Boilerplate: The Unlicense
- Blueprint CSS: Modified MIT License
- 960 Grid System: MIT/GPL License
- The 1140px Grid: CC BY-SA 3.0 Australia License
- jQuery: MIT/GPL license
- Modernizr: MIT/BSD license
- Respond.js: MIT/GPL license
- Normalize.css: Public Domain
The Unlicense (aka: public domain)