The theme for the main arkOS website, based off of Roots + Bootstrap.
Roots is a starting WordPress theme made for developers that’s based on HTML5 Boilerplate and Bootstrap from Twitter.
- Source: https://github.com/retlehs/roots
- Home Page: http://www.rootstheme.com/
- Twitter: @retlehs
- Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/roots-theme
- Clone the git repo -
git clone git://github.com/retlehs/roots.git
- or download it - Reference the theme activation documentation to understand everything that happens once you activate Roots
Edit lib/config.php
to enable or disable support for various theme functions
and to define constants that are used throughout the theme.
Edit lib/init.php
to setup custom navigation menus and post thumbnail sizes.
Take a look at the documentation table of contents.
- HTML5 Boilerplate’s markup and
.htaccess
- Bootstrap from Twitter
- Theme wrapper
- Root relative URLs
- Clean URLs (no more
/wp-content/
) - All static theme assets are rewritten to the website root (
/assets/css/
,/assets/img/
, and/assets/js/
) - Cleaner HTML output of navigation menus
- Cleaner output of
wp_head
and enqueued scripts/styles - Posts use the hNews microformat
- Multilingual ready (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)
The grunt branch contains a build script powered by grunt. More information can be found at Integrating grunt.js with Roots.
- Easily compile LESS files
- Minification and concatenation without plugins
- Fewer requests made to the server (one CSS file, one main JS file besides Modernizr and jQuery)
- Ensures valid JavaScript
- Others working on your project are able to use the same build script and have a unified development process
- Code is optimized for production use
Everyone is welcome to help contribute and improve this project. There are several ways you can contribute:
- Reporting issues (please read issue guidelines)
- Suggesting new features
- Writing or editing docs
- Writing or refactoring code
- Fixing issues
- Replying to questions on the Google Group
Use the Google Group to ask questions and get support.