This week the Roots development team released wp-password-bcrypt, a plugin that uses bcrypt instead of MD5 password hashing. MD5’s known and exploited weaknesses have rendered it “cryptographically broken and unsuitable for further use,” according to the CMU Software Engineering Institute. In a post announcing the plugin, Scott Walkinshaw explained why WordPress’ default MD5 hashing function…
Ben Word and the team behind Roots are launching a new WordPress-related podcast called Roots Radio. Earlier this year, Word rebranded the Roots starter theme as “Sage” under the Roots organization as part of a long-term plan to make it framework-agnostic. Opening up the starter theme to be available for use with a variety of…
The Roots starter theme for WordPress has rebranded as “Sage” with its 8.0.0 release today. Roots project creator Ben Word announced last year that he planned to change the theme to be framework agnostic in 2015. This release is the first step towards that goal. Fans of the starter theme appreciate its cleaner HTML, cleaner…
Major changes are coming to the Roots starter theme for WordPress. Roots has appealed mainly to developers, because it incorporates modern build tools into its workflow. The theme was first released in 2011 and now counts more than 70 contributors to the project. Roots currently utilizes HTML5 Boilerplate, Bootstrap, Grunt, and Bower in the starter…
Roots is a WordPress starter theme that makes use of HTML5 Boilerplate, Bootstrap, and Grunt. Over the years Roots has garnered somewhat of a cult following and is still going strong with the release of version 7.0.0 last week. This release moves some of the theme’s trademark features into a plugin called Soil and adds…
Roots is a starter theme for WordPress based on HTML5 Boilerplate, Blueprint CSS or 960.gs and Starkers. One of the cool features of this starter theme is the implementation of CodeMirror into the HTML post editor which spruces things up. While not extensive, their gallery shows a couple of nice looking sites built on Roots.