# [Roots Theme](http://rootstheme.com/)

Roots is a starting WordPress theme made for developers that’s based on [HTML5 Boilerplate](http://html5boilerplate.com/) and Bootstrap from Twitter.

## Quick start

* 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

## 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](http://www.rootstheme.com/wpml/) (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:

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)

## Project information

* 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)

## 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)