Roots WordPress Theme http://www.rootstheme.com/
- Complete rewrite of theme options based on Twenty Eleven
- CSS frameworks: refactored code and added default classes for each framework
- CSS frameworks: added support for Adapt.js and LESS
- CSS frameworks: added option for None
- Added support for WPML and theme translation
- Added option for cleaner nav menu output
- Added option for FOUT-B-Gone
- Added authorship rel attribute to post author link
- Activation bugfix for pages being added multiple times
- Bugfixes to the root relative URL function
- Child themes will now load their CSS automatically and properly
- HTML5 Boilerplate updates (including Normalize.css, Modernizr 2.0, and Respond.js)
- Cleaner way of including HTML5 Boilerplate's
.htaccess - Added hooks & actions (and moved lots of code into them)
- Renamed
includes/directory toinc/ - Added a blank
inc/roots-custom.phpfile
- Bugfixes
- Matching latest changes to HTML5 Boilerplate and Blueprint CSS
- Updated jQuery to 1.6.1
- Bugfixes
- Added
language_attributes()to<html> - Matching latest changes to HTML5 Boilerplate and Blueprint CSS
- Updated jQuery to 1.6
- Bugfixes
- Added support for child themes
- Added support for the 1140px Grid
- Updated the conditional comment code to match latest changes to HTML5 Boilerplate
- Fixed relative path function to work correctly when WordPress is installed in a subdirectory
- Updated jQuery to 1.5.2
- Fixed comments to show avatars correctly
- Added support for 960.gs thanks to John Liuti
- Added more onto the
.htaccessfrom HTML5 Boilerplate - Made the theme directory and name renamable
- Changed name from BB to Roots
- Updated various areas to match the latest changes to HTML5 Boilerplate
- Changed the theme markup based on hCard/Readability Guidelines and work by Jonathan Neal
- Theme activation now creates the navigation menus and automatically sets their locations
- Permalink structure is now set to
/%year%/%postname%/for performance reasons - Uploads folder is now
/assets/and not organized by month and date - All static folders in
/wp-content/themes/roots/(css/,js/,img/) now rewrite to the root (/css/,/js/,/img/) /wp-content/plugins/now rewrites to/plugins/- More root relative URLs on WordPress functions
- Search results (
/?s=query) now rewrites to/search/query/ l10n.jsis deregistered- Gallery shortcode has been changed to output
<figure>and<figcaption>and now links to the file by default - Added more
loop.phptemplates - Made the HTML editor have a monospaced font
- Added
front-page.php - Updated CSS for Gravity Forms 1.5
- Added
searchform.php template
- Added a notification when saving the theme settings
- Added support for navigation menus
- Created function that makes sure there is a Home page on theme activation
- Updated various areas to match the latest changes to HTML5 Boilerplate
- Logo is no longer an
<h1> - Added ARIA roles again
- Changed
ul#navtonav#nav-main - Added vCard to footer
- Made all URL's root relative
- Added Twitter and Facebook widgets to footer
- Added SEO optimized
robots.txtfrom WordPress codex
- Added asynchronous Google Analytics
- Updated
.htaccesswith latest changes from HTML5 Boilerplate
- Removed optimizeLegibility from headings
- Updated jQuery to latest version
- Implemented HTML5 Boilerplate
.htaccess
- Added some presentational CSS classes
- Added footer widget
- Added more Gravity Forms default styling
- Added HTML5 Boilerplate changes
- Implemented
loop.php - wp_head cleanup
- Added
page-subpages.phptemplate
- Integrated Paul Irish's frontend-pro-template (the original HTML5 Boilerplate)
- Added Blueprint CSS to Starkers
Scott Walkinshaw, Matthew Price, Kyle Geminden, Steve Jothen, John Liuti, Jeremiah Wall, Jenny Jui-Shan Liang, Mason Stewart, Dejan Panovski, Cesar Vargas, Matthew Wrather
Major components:
- 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 (aka: public domain)
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.