List of Wordpress themes based on Roots

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Is there a place where are listed Wordpress themes based on Roots?

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I’m not aware of one. This thread has examples of sites built with Roots. Roots is normally used as a starter theme for custom development jobs. I don’t think there are many widely distributed themes that use Roots as a base, and I highly doubt that there are any in the WP Theme Repo, because the Theme Review team isn’t usually super keen on Roots stuff…

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There’s definitely Roots based themes that exist on WP.org, along with lots of commercial themes based on Roots that are sold on places like ThemeForest.

I also wouldn’t say that the theme review team isn’t keen on Roots stuff, when it’s been our own decision to not support things like the ‘required’ CSS.

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Oops. Sorry if I spoke too soon! <3

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Great!

So @benword why not to make a thread like http://discourse.roots.io/t/live-examples/
with all the themes from WP.org, ThemeForest etc. based on Roots?

Do you already know for some themes?

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We are about to release a set of themes to Themeforest that are based on Roots, I would be curious to know what pitfalls or what they deem “bad practices” so I can prep for any fallout. Any notes or experiences from anyone?

@benword - what “required” css do you speak of?

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At the top of the live examples thread it says “Please don’t share any themes that you’re selling” — we won’t be linking to or promoting [paid] themes based on Roots here.

There’s also way too many, this is an example of what’s on public GitHub repos where people haven’t modified function names: https://github.com/search?q=roots_template_path&ref=reposearch&type=Code

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Run https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-check/

You can also search the ThemeForest forum for Roots, I’ve seen a few different threads over there about it

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