An Introduction to Django Admin
This chapter introduces you to the basic functionality of the Django admin app. You will start by creating superuser accounts for the Bookr app, before moving on to executing Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations with the admin app. You will learn how to integrate your Django app with the admin app, and you’ll also look at the behavior of ForeignKeys in the admin app. At the end of this chapter, you will see how you can customize the admin app according to a unique set of preferences by sub-classing the AdminSite and ModelAdmin classes, making its interface more intuitive and user-friendly.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Creating a superuser account
- CRUD operations using the Django admin app
- Managing Django users and groups
- Registering models with the admin app
- Customizing the admin interface
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to do the following:
- Create an...
