Roots is a starting WordPress theme made for developers that’s based on HTML5 Boilerplate, and Foundation from ZURB.
- Clone the git repo -
git clone git://github.com/coreywagehoft/roots-foundation.git
- or download it - Read Theme Activation to understand everything that happens once you activate Roots
- HTML5 Boilerplate’s markup, style, and .htaccess
- Foundation from ZURB
- 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_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)
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
- Source: https://github.com/coreywagehoft/roots-foundation
- Twitter: @coreywagehoft
- Contributors: https://github.com/coreywagehoft/roots-foundation/contributors
- HTML5 Boilerplate: The Unlicense
- Modernizr: MIT/BSD license
- jQuery: MIT/GPL license
- Foundation from ZURB
The Unlicense (aka: public domain)