Aigars Silkalns
Founder & Lead Developer at Colorlib
About
Aigars is a frontend web developer and the founder of Colorlib, one of the largest free web design resource sites on the internet. He started building websites in 2009, launched a technology news blog that reached 3 million monthly pageviews in 2011, and founded Colorlib in 2013 to share the WordPress themes he was developing.
What started as a learning project turned into a business. The themes Aigars built while teaching himself WordPress development — Shapely, Sparkling, Illdy, Activello, Travelify — went on to become some of the most downloaded free WordPress themes in history, with a combined 6.9 million downloads on WordPress.org alone.
Today, Aigars leads Colorlib as part of Divilab LLC, overseeing the development of 1,500+ website templates, the AdminLTE admin dashboard framework (45K+ GitHub stars), and a library of 1,400+ web design articles. He continues to write about WordPress, web design, and frontend development, drawing on over a decade of hands-on experience building products used by millions.
Credentials
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration
BA School of Business and Finance, Riga
Founded
Colorlib (2013) — 10M+ downloads
Divilab LLC (2014) — parent company
Open Source
ColorlibHQ on GitHub — 181 repos
67K+ combined stars across projects
Community
WordCamp Europe attendee (2024, 2025)
12 themes on WordPress.org
Technical Expertise
WordPress Themes on WordPress.org
12 free themes with nearly 7 million combined downloads:
Open Source Projects
AdminLTE
The most popular open-source admin dashboard template on GitHub. Bootstrap 5 based.
45,300+ starsGentelella
Free Bootstrap admin dashboard template with rich UI components and charts.
21,300+ starsEmail Templates
Free responsive HTML email templates for transactional and marketing emails.
1,200+ stars