# Roots Radio – Topics/Questions

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/roots-radio-topics-questions/4193
**Category:** blog
**Created:** 2015-07-06T03:06:49Z
**Posts:** 35
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## Post 23 by @Groques — 2015-10-09T00:34:58Z

Hi if you guys could gear some episodes to someone newer to wordpress and web development, that would really help me out.

**Topic Idea #1:** When should you use Roots, and what type of person is it for?  
Shed light on other things big in the WordPress ecosystem like \_s and Genesis. I posted a thread about this.

> [@Thoughts on Genesis & theme frameworks compared to Sage & Roots](https://discourse.roots.io/t/thoughts-on-genesis-theme-frameworks-compared-to-sage-roots/4940/1):
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> Hello, as someone who’s relatively new to web development, and new to WordPress, I’m a bit confused as to what platform is right for me. From my understanding you use Genesis to create child themes from pre-existing starter child themes, like genesis-sample or another bought from studiopress. Then mess around with style.css and use framework specific hooks and filters to get the functionality you want. However Roots incorporates modern build tools and ideas from outside of “WordPress world,” li…

**Topic Idea #2:** I also really enjoyed the freelancing episode and would like more on that.

**Topic Idea #3:** Multiple sites (separate WordPress installations) with Trellis. I want to set up my portfolio site with Roots where I can have various bedrock installations on one trellis site, to have temporary staging sites for clients… As described by @poggen here [https://discourse.roots.io/t/best-practice-for-trellis-with-multiple-sites/3981?u=poggen](https://discourse.roots.io/t/best-practice-for-trellis-with-multiple-sites/3981)

I think this pattern would be ideal for any freelancers using “the Roots WordPress Stack,” and better compared to having different staging servers. Talking about how to accomplish this, possible roadblocks and problems, and best practices would be cool.

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