Roots is a WordPress starter theme based on HTML5 Boilerplate & Bootstrap from Twitter.

Write Less Code With the Theme Wrapper

Template markup is handled by base.php instead of being scattered across all template files like typical themes.

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Cleaner WordPress Code Output

We clean up lots of code that you’re used to seeing in WordPress themes (see for yourself).

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Theme Activation Amazingness

Stop wasting time messing around with WordPress settings and get straight to coding your theme.

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What Else?

• Multilingual ready and WPML compatible. Roots already includes translations for: Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese
• ARIA roles on the main site components
• Blog posts are based on the hNews microformat as recommended by Readability’s Article Publishing Guidelines
• Most of HTML5 Boilerplate’s awesome .htaccess is automatically generated

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