Rootsis a starter theme for WordPress development that lets you focus on completing designs instead of spending unnecessary time getting the WordPress functionality working.
Roots is based on the markup ofHTML5 Boilerplateand the WordPress PHP ofStarkers(another starter theme).
It comes with the CSS frameworksBlueprint, which is more general, and960.gs, which is a grid-only framework.
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Roots includes several other interesting features — cleaner WordPress code output and blog posts that support the hNews microformat.
Rootsis the work of designerBen Word.
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