Roots Theme

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

Source: https://github.com/retlehs/roots
Home Page: http://www.rootstheme.com/
Twitter: @retlehs
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Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/roots-theme

Installation

Clone the git repo - git clone git://github.com/retlehs/roots.git - or download it
Reference the theme activation documentation to understand everything that happens once you activate Roots

Configuration

Edit lib/config.php to enable or disable support for various theme functions and to define constants that are used throughout the theme.

Edit lib/init.php to setup custom navigation menus and post thumbnail sizes.

Documentation

Take a look at the documentation table of contents.

Features

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

Build Script

The grunt branch contains a build script powered by grunt. More information can be found at Integrating grunt.js with Roots.

Easily compile LESS files
Minification and concatenation without plugins
Fewer requests made to the server (one CSS file, one main JS file besides Modernizr and jQuery)
Ensures valid JavaScript
Others working on your project are able to use the same build script and have a unified development process
Code is optimized for production use

Contributing

Everyone is welcome to help contribute and 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 Google Group

Support

Use the Google Group to ask questions and get support.