Admin interface customizations

The out-of-the-box admin interface is quite useful when getting started. Unfortunately, most people assume that it is quite hard to change the Django admin and leave it as it is. In fact, the admin is extremely customizable, and its appearance can be drastically changed with minimal effort.

Changing the heading

Many users of the admin interface might be stumped by the heading—Django administration. It might be more helpful to change this to something customized, such as MySite Admin, or something cool, such as SuperBook Secret Area.

It is quite easy to make this change. Simply add the following line to your site's urls.py:

admin.site.site_header = "SuperBook Secret Area" 

Changing the base and stylesheets

Almost every admin page is extended from a common base template named admin/base_site.html. This means that with a little knowledge of HTML and CSS, you can make all sorts of customizations to change the look and feel of theadmin interface.

Create a directory called...