Moodle Plugins directory: Aardvark: Comments

Thursday, 16 April 2026, 1:53 AM - Neil Krshna

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:53:55 GMT

by Neil Krshna.

Best. Theme. Ever. Thanks guys for putting together this awesome theme. Aardvark is great for my Moodle site. https://www.fellocraft.com

Monday, 10 August 2020, 8:40 PM - Shaun Daubney

Mon, 10 Aug 2020 12:40:14 GMT

by Shaun Daubney.

Thank you Bob - it was a labour of love and I really miss working on it, but times change and default Moodle is so much more use friendly these days, so Aarvark had to retire. I like to think his legacy lives on and that he has in a small way inspired some of the official Moodle developments over the years.

Tuesday, 10 September 2019, 5:06 PM - Shaun Daubney

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 09:06:45 GMT

by Shaun Daubney.

Unfortunately I have had to make the decision to cease development of Aardvark to focus on other commitments.

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.

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.

Sunday, 2 June 2019, 10:01 PM - Dennis Nazarrea

Sun, 02 Jun 2019 14:01:41 GMT

by Dennis Nazarrea.

Hi, I just upgraded to Moodle 3.7, after installation of the new version aardvark themes does not display properly.

Saturday, 30 March 2019, 3:17 AM - Stéphane Lavoie

Fri, 29 Mar 2019 19:17:47 GMT

by Stéphane Lavoie.

Hi,
One of my school adopted this theme. We upgraded to 3.6 and all courses with Aardvark theme can not access messaging. Do you plan on releasing an update?

Friday, 5 October 2018, 3:46 PM - Visvanath Ratnaweera

Fri, 05 Oct 2018 07:46:06 GMT

by Visvanath Ratnaweera.

Hi, thanks for the great theme! I like the non-intrusive approach. One change I would like to do in the same direction. How do I unstick the top menu bar (where the Home button, Language menu, Logged in user, are)?

Thursday, 27 September 2018, 7:40 PM - Elena Robles Robles

Thu, 27 Sep 2018 11:40:22 GMT

by Elena Robles Robles.

How can I change the header so that it has an icon and a black background?
From the instagram block you have on the web demo

Wednesday, 5 September 2018, 2:31 AM - Shaun Daubney

Tue, 04 Sep 2018 18:31:53 GMT

by Shaun Daubney.

Unfortunately we're having massive problems upgrading our Moodle so development has been delayed.

Wednesday, 5 September 2018, 1:11 AM - Eduardo Almeida Costa

Tue, 04 Sep 2018 17:11:41 GMT

by Eduardo Almeida Costa.

Is there an estimate for the theme to work with moodle 3.5?
Thanks.

Friday, 31 August 2018, 9:39 PM - Shaun Daubney

Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:39:48 GMT

by Shaun Daubney.

Elena Robles Robles - the Instagram block is just an HTML block where you can embed a widget or manually add pictures saved from Instagram.

Friday, 31 August 2018, 6:54 PM - Elena Robles Robles

Fri, 31 Aug 2018 10:54:45 GMT

by Elena Robles Robles.

How can I insert the instagram block? Many thanks

Wednesday, 9 May 2018, 9:05 PM - joseph valdez

Wed, 09 May 2018 13:05:21 GMT

by joseph valdez.

Amazing theme! Great design and no issues when upgrading to Moodle 3.4

Wednesday, 11 April 2018, 4:03 PM - Peter Eliyahu Kornfeld

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 08:03:53 GMT

by Peter Eliyahu Kornfeld.

Hi,
I like this theme very much - it is very 'live' and good for the eyes! Very good work...
I'm possibly one of those few who check it with RTL language (Hebrew) and spotted some problems when using IE (11, maybe others)...
Where can I fill a bug report?

Monday, 26 February 2018, 1:46 AM - Rohan Pieterse

Sun, 25 Feb 2018 17:46:35 GMT

by Rohan Pieterse.

Hallo,

How do I get the dashboard to look like in the screenshot. I cant get a navbar for courses or anything. The only thing that changed when i activated the theme was the color scheme.

Kind regards,

Thursday, 8 February 2018, 11:55 AM - David Dinh

Thu, 08 Feb 2018 03:55:40 GMT

by David Dinh.

Hello,

I just upgraded my development site to Moodle 3.4.1 and also upgraded theme Academi to version theme_academi_moodle34_2017110900 but ran into an issue where my testing site is no longer recognize aardvark theme. Is there a way to fix this issue? Here is what I'm seeing on Moodle version 3.4.1

aardvark theme_aardvark 2017092700 Disabled Uninstall Additional Missing from disk!

Thank you