Roots Theme

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

Quick start

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

Features

HTML5 Boilerplate’s markup, style, and .htaccess
Bootstrap from Twitter
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
wp_head has been cleaned up along with the output of enqueued styles and scripts
Robots.txt optimized for SEO
Multilingual ready (English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Macedonian, Finnish, Danish, and Turkish)

Contributing

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

Project information

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

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)