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Roots WordPress Theme Documentation

Roots is a starting WordPress theme made for developers that's based on HTML5 Boilerplate, Blueprint CSS/960 Grid System/1140 Grid and Starkers that will help you rapidly create brochure sites and blogs. Visit http://rootstheme.com for more information.

Get Started

• Introduction - Information and resources on HTML5 Boilerplate and the included CSS grid systems
• Theme Activation - Read this first for instructions on how to properly install the Roots theme and find out exactly what happens once the theme is activated

What's Included?

• Template Files - A breakdown of the WordPress template files that are included
• Roots Functions - A look into the Roots functions.php and all the files that it references

Customizing

• Child Theme - Details on how to use Roots with child themes
• Snippets - Useful WordPress PHP snippets for your template files
• Plugins - Recommended and useful WordPress plugins

Alternate Web server configuration

Roots adds onto Apache's .htaccess for clean URL rewrites. If you're using not using Apache then reference the pages below for the correct server configuration:

• Nginx
• Lighttpd