Moodle plugins directory: Aardvark | Moodle.org
Aardvark
The Aardvark project started in 2008 after a focus group with students led the development of our somewhat basic and neglected installation of Moodle into a (at the time) modern and engaging platform. The idea was to drive student use by creating a colourful, MySpace-inspired, student intranet as the front-end, with the functionality of a VLE behind it. Pressure from those students would then ultimately drive adoption by tutors.
Over the years, Aardvark has been an exciting and arguably inspiring project, started at Newbury College, but benefiting from the contributions and expertise of many other developers. It was the first open-source Moodle theme to include a drop-down navigation menu, a concept that would eventually become a core element of Moodle theme engine, and at its peak was installed on over 5,000 Moodle installations around the world.
Development
of Aardvark slowed down a few years ago as many of its advantages were
adopted as features in the core theme engine of Moodle and a lack of
development time meant that I was no longer able to keep up with the
changes required to make the theme compatible with the latest releases.
Unfortunately I have had to make the decision to cease development of
Aardvark to focus on other commitments.
Aardvark has been an incredible project to work on, and I have learnt a huge amount about PHP and CSS along the way and I would like to thank everyone who has contacted me over the years with their kind comments. Special thanks to Mary L Evans, Patrick Malley and all of the other contributors and supporters who have been part of this journey.
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You should have looked at how Bootstrap/Clean themes have been constructed before resubmitting this.
The major problem is in the config.php where you still have grade and block stylesheets excluded. This is no longer the case in Bootstrapbase/Clean themes as of Moodle 2.6.
Deleting the popup.php file at least shows the content of the popup (but with more errors listed at the top, saying that popup.php is unreachable).
Help?
Correctly displayed on the main page of the week and the month name on the Ukrainian or in Russian. How can I fix it?
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?f=29
Cloning Themes is easy when you know how but even so I have never yet managed to clone one and have work first time, there is always something I have forgotten to do!
Post a question in the themes forum today and I'll help you all I can. Also make you you tell me which version of Aardvark are you trying to clone? And also which version of Moodle you are using?
Thanks
Mary
Does anyone know how could I set my background image in the "aardvark" theme to be fixed as it can be in the "more" theme? What do I need to do?
Thanks