Aquila Admin Theme
Material Design inspired admin theme with a customisable color scheme. Add your own custom logo to match your website.
4.4(35 reviews)
·3.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 years agoAs of April 2026, Aquila Admin Theme is a WordPress admin theme plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 35 reviews. It has been downloaded 69K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 4 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 17% this week. Top alternative: Add Admin CSS.
4.4/535 reviews
3.0K+active installs
69K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
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 c…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.435 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Beautiful theme but DO NOT INSTALL IT
by brasofilo·2 years ago
I loved the elegant simplicity and the admin bar reinvented.
With most items aligned right and the Screen Options and Help Tabs incorporated into the the admin bar, the result is simply brilliant.
That said, there’s some code running amok in the plugin, a couple of minutes after I installed it, my debug log file grew 1.5MB, after 20 minutes, it was 50MB…
There is a preg_match running non-stop and giving this notice:
PHP Deprecated: preg_match(): Passing null to parameter #4 ($flags) of type int is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/aquila-admin-theme/admin/colour/lessc.inc.php on line 3401Upload Logo Wouldn’t Function
by troyaweasson82·3 years ago
The Dashboard Logo is a very important part of the admin area branding. It’s no bloody use if nothing happens when you try to upload your own logo to replace the default one.
Thankful
by DEVOPIAX TEAM·3 years ago
Your Theme is fantastic and fully customizable. please release an update to work better with the latest WordPress version and support PHP 8.1. I’m a WordPress webmaster and work with many companies in Iran and recommended your theme to them.
Thank You So much
Kind Regards
Beautiful job
by mister pc·3 years ago
Thanks for design & quality !
The results are far ahead from the “standard dashboard” !!
I noticed some lack about color settings part, and some design configuration was replaced by another stuff from another plugin (or simple functionality ?).
I found an optimal configuration anyway, and it works really great 😀
I like what I see
by Earnie Rhyker·4 years ago
I like what I see (pun intended). Yes is definitely a nice admin theme and must-have upgrade to the default backend of WordPress.
Aquila is easy to install, simple to configure, clean plugin settings, great customization.
Why only 4 stars? Hmm have worked with better Admin themes in the past, but those are now deprecated. Hence why I got onto Aquila and keeping it installed. Lets see what the future holds for this nice plugin.
Download Trends
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 5.7.15 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.1
91.9%
Other
8.1%
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Changelog
3.1.1 – 31/05/2021
- Code refactored.
- Bug fixes.
- New support links for adminbar.
- Footer credit removed.
- Removed FontAwesome dependency.
…and 1 more changes
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