A Material Design inspired customisable color scheme and re-design for WordPress Admin (v4.0 onwards). Aquila also cleans up the admin area from unnecessary or potentially confusing items for the end-user.
Many updates have been made to the admin area, including:
- Admin area complete re-design.
- Use your own logo instead of the WordPress logo in the admin area and login screen.
- Customisable color scheme with color picker.
- Roboto typeface to match Material Design guidelines.
- “Posts” renamed to “Blog” (can be changed back in Aquila Settings).
- Dashboard metaboxes removed and cleaned up.
- User “Profile” area cleaned up and simplified.
- New custom icon pack.
- Current user role added as an admin body class.
- Removed “How are you..” from the top-right corner.
- Re-designed login screen.
- Admin bar de-cluttered.
- New dashboard widgets.
- WordPress and plugins support links on dashboard.
- “Update” notifications hidden from Editors.
- “Post Format” removed from posts.
- Multisite support.
- Gutenberg support.
- View server information directly on the dashboard.
- Media Library support for clear PNG images.
- Aquila Settings page to control most of these options.
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.