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.

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

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

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