Essence is a professional barebones theme for Wordpress that's based on HTML5 Boilerplate. It includes functions for cleaner HTML output and a build script to automate the minification and concatenation of your HTML/CSS/JS.

Clone the git repo - git clone git://github.com/kevva/essence.git - or download it

• HTML5 ready. Use the new elements with confidence.
• Cross-browser compatible (Chrome, Opera, Safari, Firefox 3.6+, IE6+).
• "Mobile first"/"Responsive design"-capable out of the box.
• Clean URLs (no more /wp-content/)
• All static theme assets are rewritten to the website root (/css/, /img/, and /js/)
• Apache server caching, compression, and other configuration defaults for Grade-A performance.
• Robots.txt optimized for SEO

Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute. There are several ways you can help out:

1. Raising issues on GitHub.
2. Sending pull requests for bug fixes or new features and improvements.
3. Making the docs better.

###Major components:

• HTML5 Boilerplate: The Unlicense
• Roots Theme: The Unlicense
• Normalize.css: The Unlicense
• Modernizr: MIT/BSD license
• jQuery: MIT/GPL license

###Everything else:

• The Unlicense