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-# Roots WordPress Theme [http://www.rootstheme.com/](http://www.rootstheme.com/)
+# [Roots Theme](http://rootstheme.com/)
 
-## Changelog:
+Roots is a starting WordPress theme made for developers that’s based on [HTML5 Boilerplate](http://html5boilerplate.com/) and Starkers that will help you rapidly create brochure sites and blogs.
 
-### 3.6.0: August 12th, 2011
-<ul>
-  <li>HTML5 Boilerplate 2.0 updates</li>
-  <li>Cleaner output of enqueued styles and scripts</li>
-  <li>Added option for root relative URLs</li>
-  <li>Small fixes to root relative URLs and clean assets</li>
-  <li>Updated included jQuery plugins</li>
-  <li>Added French translation (thanks @johnraz)</li>
-  <li>Added Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks @weslly)</li>
-  <li>Switched the logo to use <code>add_custom_image_header</code></li>
-  <li>Added a function that strips unnecessary self-closing tags</li>
-  <li>Code cleanup and re-organization</li>
-</ul>
+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.
 
-### 3.5.0: July 30th, 2011
-<ul>
-  <li>Complete rewrite of theme options based on Twenty Eleven</li>
-  <li>CSS frameworks: refactored code and added default classes for each framework</li>
-  <li>CSS frameworks: added support for Adapt.js and LESS</li>
-  <li>CSS frameworks: added option for None</li>
-  <li>Added support for WPML and theme translation</li>
-  <li>Added option for cleaner nav menu output</li>
-  <li>Added option for FOUT-B-Gone</li>
-  <li>Added authorship rel attribute to post author link</li>
-  <li>Activation bugfix for pages being added multiple times</li>
-  <li>Bugfixes to the root relative URL function</li>
-  <li>Child themes will now load their CSS automatically and properly</li>
-  <li>HTML5 Boilerplate updates (including Normalize.css, Modernizr 2.0, and Respond.js)</li>
-  <li>Cleaner way of including HTML5 Boilerplate's <code>.htaccess</code></li>
-  <li>Added hooks &amp; actions (and moved lots of code into them)</li>
-  <li>Renamed <code>includes/</code> directory to <code>inc/</code></li>
-  <li>Added a blank <code>inc/roots-custom.php</code> file</li>
-</ul>
+## Quick start
 
-### 3.2.4: May 19th, 2011
-<ul>
-  <li>Bugfixes</li>
-  <li>Matching latest changes to HTML5 Boilerplate and Blueprint CSS</li>
-  <li>Updated jQuery to 1.6.1</li>
-</ul>
+* Clone the git repo - `git clone git://github.com/retlehs/roots.git` - or [download it](https://github.com/retlehs/roots/zipball/master)
+* Read [Theme Activation](https://github.com/retlehs/roots/wiki/Theme-activation) to understand everything that happens once you activate Roots
 
-### 3.2.3: May 10th, 2011
-<ul>
-  <li>Bugfixes</li>
-  <li>Added <code>language_attributes()</code> to <code>&lt;html&gt;</code></li>
-  <li>Matching latest changes to HTML5 Boilerplate and Blueprint CSS</li>
-  <li>Updated jQuery to 1.6</li>
-</ul>
+## Features
 
-### 3.2.2: April 24th, 2011
-<ul>
-  <li>Bugfixes</li>
-</ul>
+* 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_head` has been cleaned up along with the output of enqueued styles and scripts
+* Robots.txt optimized for SEO
+* [Multilingual ready](http://www.rootstheme.com/wpml/) (English, French, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Macedonian, Finnish, and Danish)
 
-### 3.2.1: April 20th, 2011
+### Theme Options
+![Theme Options](http://www.rootstheme.com/img/roots-settings.png)
 
-<ul>
-  <li>Added support for child themes</li>
-</ul>
+## Contributing
 
-### 3.2.0: April 15th, 2011
+Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute. There are several ways you can help out:
 
-<ul>
-  <li>Added support for the 1140px Grid</li>
-  <li>Updated the conditional comment code to match latest changes to HTML5 Boilerplate</li>
-</ul>
+1. Raising [issues](https://github.com/retlehs/roots/issues) on GitHub
+2. Sending pull requests for bug fixes or new features and improvements
+3. Making the [docs](https://github.com/retlehs/roots/wiki) better
+4. Replying to questions on the [mailing list](http://groups.google.com/group/roots-theme)
 
-### 3.1.1: April 7th, 2011
+## Project information
 
-<ul>
-  <li>Fixed relative path function to work correctly when WordPress is installed in a subdirectory</li>
-  <li>Updated jQuery to 1.5.2</li>
-  <li>Fixed comments to show avatars correctly</li>
-</ul>
+* Source: [https://github.com/retlehs/roots](https://github.com/retlehs/roots)
+* Web: [http://rootstheme.com/](http://rootstheme.com/)
+* Docs: [https://github.com/retlehs/roots/wiki](https://github.com/retlehs/roots/wiki)
+* Mailing list: [http://groups.google.com/group/roots-theme](http://groups.google.com/group/roots-theme)
+* Twitter: [@retlehs](https://twitter.com/#!/retlehs)
+* Contributors: [https://github.com/retlehs/roots/contributors](https://github.com/retlehs/roots/contributors)
 
-### 3.1.0: April 1st, 2011
+## License
 
-<ul>
-  <li>Added support for 960.gs thanks to John Liuti</li>
-  <li>Added more onto the <code>.htaccess</code> from HTML5 Boilerplate</li>
-  <li>Made the theme directory and name renamable</li>
-</ul>
+### Major components:
 
-### 3.0.0: March 28th, 2011
-
-<ul>
-  <li>Changed name from BB to Roots</li>
-  <li>Updated various areas to match the latest changes to HTML5 Boilerplate</li>
-  <li>Changed the theme markup based on hCard/Readability Guidelines and work by Jonathan Neal</li>
-  <li>Theme activation now creates the navigation menus and automatically sets their locations</li>
-  <li>Permalink structure is now set to <code>/%year%/%postname%/</code> for performance reasons</li>
-  <li>Uploads folder is now <code>/assets/</code> and not organized by month and date</li>
-  <li>All static folders in <code>/wp-content/themes/roots/</code> (<code>css/</code>, <code>js/</code>, <code>img/</code>) now rewrite to the root (<code>/css/</code>, <code>/js/</code>, <code>/img/</code>)</li>
-  <li><code>/wp-content/plugins/</code> now rewrites to <code>/plugins/</code></li>
-  <li>More root relative URLs on WordPress functions</li>
-  <li>Search results (<code>/?s=query</code>) now rewrites to <code>/search/query/</code></li>
-  <li><code>l10n.js</code> is deregistered</li>
-  <li>Gallery shortcode has been changed to output <code>&lt;figure&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;figcaption&gt;</code> and now links to the file by default</li>
-  <li>Added more <code>loop.php</code> templates</li>
-  <li>Made the HTML editor have a monospaced font</li>
-  <li>Added <code>front-page.php</code></li>
-  <li>Updated CSS for Gravity Forms 1.5</li>
-  <li>Added <code>searchform.php template</code></li>
-</ul>
-
-### 2.4.0: January 25th, 2011
-
-<ul>
-  <li>Added a notification when saving the theme settings</li>
-  <li>Added support for navigation menus</li>
-  <li>Created function that makes sure there is a Home page on theme activation</li>
-  <li>Updated various areas to match the latest changes to HTML5 Boilerplate</li>
-</ul>
-
-### 2.3.0: December 8th, 2010
-
-<ul>
-  <li>Logo is no longer an <code>&lt;h1&gt;</code></li>
-  <li>Added ARIA roles again</li>
-  <li>Changed <code>ul#nav</code> to <code>nav#nav-main</code></li>
-  <li>Added vCard to footer</li>
-  <li>Made all URL's root relative</li>
-  <li>Added Twitter and Facebook widgets to footer</li>
-  <li>Added SEO optimized <code>robots.txt</code> from WordPress codex</li>
-</ul>
-
-### 2.2.0: September 20th, 2010
-
-<ul>
-  <li>Added asynchronous Google Analytics</li>
-  <li>Updated <code>.htaccess</code> with latest changes from HTML5 Boilerplate</li>
-</ul>
-
-### 2.1.0: August 19th, 2010
-
-<ul>
-  <li>Removed optimizeLegibility from headings</li>
-  <li>Updated jQuery to latest version</li>
-  <li>Implemented HTML5 Boilerplate <code>.htaccess</code></li>
-</ul>
-
-### 2.0.1: August 2nd, 2010
-
-<ul>
-  <li>Added some presentational CSS classes</li>
-  <li>Added footer widget</li>
-  <li>Added more Gravity Forms default styling</li>
-</ul>
-
-### 2.0.0: July 19th, 2010
-
-<ul>
-  <li>Added HTML5 Boilerplate changes</li>
-  <li>Implemented <code>loop.php</code></li>
-  <li>wp_head cleanup</li>
-  <li>Added <code>page-subpages.php</code> template</li>
-</ul>
-
-### 1.5.0: April 15th, 2010
-
-<ul>
-  <li>Integrated Paul Irish's frontend-pro-template (the original HTML5 Boilerplate)</li>
-</ul>
-
-### 1.0.0: December 18th, 2009
-
-<ul>
-  <li>Added Blueprint CSS to Starkers</li>
-</ul>
-
-## Contributors:
-
-[Scott Walkinshaw](http://www.scottwalkinshaw.com/), [Matthew Price](http://www.matthewaprice.com/), [Kyle Geminden](http://www.kylegeminden.com/), [Steve Jothen](http://twitter.com/sjothen), [John Liuti](http://twitter.com/JohnLiuti), [Jeremiah Wall](http://jeremiahwall.com/), [Jenny Jui-Shan Liang](http://jsliang.twgogo.org/), [Mason Stewart](http://masondesu.com/), [Dejan Panovski](http://webdesignplus.mk/), [Cesar Vargas](http://www.limitlis.com/), [Matthew Wrather](http://www.wrathercreative.com/), [Weslly Honorato](http://about.me/weslly)
-
-## License:
-
-Major components:
-
-* HTML5 Boilerplate: [The Unlicense](http://unlicense.org)
+* 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
-* Modernizr: MIT/BSD License
-* jQuery: MIT/GPL License
-
-Everything else:
-
-* [The Unlicense](http://unlicense.org) (aka: public domain)
-
-## Summary:
-
-Roots is a starting WordPress theme made for developers that's based on HTML5 Boilerplate, Blueprint CSS/960 Grid System/1140 Grid and Starkers that will help you rapidly create brochure sites and blogs.
+* jQuery: MIT/GPL license
+* Modernizr: MIT/BSD license
+* Respond.js: MIT/GPL license
+* Normalize.css: Public Domain
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