# [Roots Theme](http://rootstheme.com/)
Roots is a starting WordPress theme made for developers that’s based on [HTML5 Boilerplate](http://html5boilerplate.com/), Starkers, and the most popular CSS frameworks.
Roots includes support for Blueprint CSS, 960 Grid System, 1140px Grid, Adapt.js, Less Framework, 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.
## 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
* 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 `` and ``
* `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)
### Theme Options
## 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
* Blueprint CSS: Modified MIT License
* 960 Grid System: MIT/GPL License
* The 1140px Grid: CC BY-SA 3.0 Australia License
* Adapt.js: MIT/GPL license
* Less Framework 4: MIT license
* Foundation: MIT license
* Bootstrap: Apache 2.0 license
### Everything else:
The Unlicense (aka: public domain)
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