Roots WordPress Theme http://www.rootstheme.com/
- 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
.htaccess
from 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.js
is deregistered- Gallery shortcode has been changed to output
<figure>
and<figcaption>
and now links to the file by default - Added more
loop.php
templates - Made the HTML editor have a monospaced font
- Added
front-page.php
- Updated CSS for Gravity Forms 1.5
- Added
searchform.php template
Scott Walkinshaw, Matthew Price, Kyle Geminden, Steve Jothen
- 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#nav
tonav#nav-main
- Added vCard to footer
- Made all URL's root relative
- Added Twitter and Facebook widgets to footer
- Added SEO optimized
robots.txt
from WordPress codex
- Added asynchronous Google Analytics
- Updated
.htaccess
with 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.php
template
- Integrated Paul Irish's frontend-pro-template (the original HTML5 Boilerplate)
- Added Blueprint CSS to Starkers
Major components:
- HTML5 Boileplate: The Unlicense
- Blueprint CSS: Modified MIT License
- 960 Grid System: MIT/GPL 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 and Starkers that will help you rapidly create brochure sites and blogs.