Soil contains plugins that I use on every new WordPress project (except for Gravity Forms) along with Roots.
There's also a mu-plugin for site specific functionality (custom post types, taxonomies, meta boxes, shortcodes, and examples of each are included).
Take a look at Jump Start Your WordPress Site Development with Soil.
- Clone the git repo
- Run
git submodule update --init --recursive
- Options Framework Plugin
- Custom Metaboxes and Fields
- CF Post Formats
- Base — Site specific functionality (custom post types, taxonomies, meta boxes, shortcodes)