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# [Roots Theme](http://www.rootstheme.com/)
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Roots is a starting WordPress theme made for developers that’s based on [HTML5 Boilerplate](http://html5boilerplate.com/) and [Bootstrap from Twitter](http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/).
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## Installation
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* Clone the git repo - `git clone git://github.com/retlehs/roots.git` - or [download it](https://github.com/retlehs/roots/zipball/master)
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* Reference the [theme activation](/retlehs/roots/blob/master/doc/activation.md) documentation to understand everything that happens once you activate Roots
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## Configuration
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Edit `lib/config.php` to enable support for major functionality and to define constants that are used throughout the theme.
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## Documentation
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Take a look at the [documentation table of contents](/retlehs/roots/blob/master/doc/README.md).
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## Features
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* HTML5 Boilerplate’s markup and `.htaccess`
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* Bootstrap from Twitter
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* Theme wrapper
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* Root relative URLs
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* Clean URLs (no more `/wp-content/`)
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* All static theme assets are rewritten to the website root (`/assets/css/`, `/assets/img/`, and `/assets/js/`)
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* Cleaner HTML output of navigation menus
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* Cleaner output of `wp_head` and enqueued scripts/styles
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* Posts use the [hNews](http://microformats.org/wiki/hnews) microformat
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* [Multilingual ready](http://www.rootstheme.com/wpml/) (English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Macedonian, Finnish, Danish, Turkish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Norwegian, Catalan, Polish, Hungarian, Russian)
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## Contributing
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Everyone is welcome to help improve this project. There are several ways you can contribute:
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* Reporting issues (please read [issue guidelines](https://github.com/necolas/issue-guidelines))
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* Suggesting new features
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* Writing or editing [docs](/retlehs/roots/blob/master/doc/README.md)
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* Writing or refactoring code
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* Fixing [issues](https://github.com/retlehs/roots/issues)
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* Replying to questions on the [mailing list](http://groups.google.com/group/roots-theme)
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## Project information
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* Source: [https://github.com/retlehs/roots](https://github.com/retlehs/roots)
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* Web: [http://www.rootstheme.com/](http://www.rootstheme.com/)
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* Mailing list: [http://groups.google.com/group/roots-theme](http://groups.google.com/group/roots-theme)
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* Twitter: [@retlehs](https://twitter.com/#!/retlehs)
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* Contributors: [https://github.com/retlehs/roots/contributors](https://github.com/retlehs/roots/contributors) |