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53 lines
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# [Roots Theme](http://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.
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## Quick start
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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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* Read [Theme Activation](https://github.com/retlehs/roots/wiki/Theme-activation) to understand everything that happens once you activate Roots
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## Features
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* HTML5 Boilerplate’s markup, style, and .htaccess
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* Bootstrap from Twitter
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* Clean URLs (no more `/wp-content/`)
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* All static theme assets are rewritten to the website root (`/css/`, `/img/`, and `/js/`)
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* Cleaner HTML output of navigation menus
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* Root relative URLs
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* Posts use the hNews microformat
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* `wp_head` has been cleaned up along with the output of enqueued styles and scripts
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* Robots.txt optimized for SEO
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* [Multilingual ready](http://www.rootstheme.com/wpml/) (English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Macedonian, Finnish, Danish, and Turkish)
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## Contributing
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Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute. There are several ways you can help out:
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1. Raising [issues](https://github.com/retlehs/roots/issues) on GitHub
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2. Sending pull requests for bug fixes or new features and improvements
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3. Making the [docs](https://github.com/retlehs/roots/wiki) better
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4. 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://rootstheme.com/](http://rootstheme.com/)
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* Docs: [https://github.com/retlehs/roots/wiki](https://github.com/retlehs/roots/wiki)
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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)
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## License
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### Major components:
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* HTML5 Boilerplate: The Unlicense
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* Modernizr: MIT/BSD license
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* jQuery: MIT/GPL license
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* Normalize.css: Public Domain
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* Bootstrap: Apache 2.0 license
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### Everything else:
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The Unlicense (aka: public domain) |