Customizing Django Admin Interface

Bharat Saraswat

Agenda

Introduction to Django and Django Admin Interface
Reusable options and methods provided by Django
Django admin themes

Basically, What? Why? and How?

What does django code look like?

Creating a Django project

$ django-admin startproject mysite

Creating a Django project

mysite/
    manage.py
    mysite/
        __init__.py
        settings.py
        urls.py
        asgi.py
        wsgi.py

Starting development server

$ python manage.py runserver

from django.db import models

class Person(models.Model):
    first_name = models.CharField(max_length=30)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=30)

CREATE TABLE myapp_person (
    "id" serial NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
    "first_name" varchar(30) NOT NULL,
    "last_name" varchar(30) NOT NULL
);

References

Packages for admin styling: https://djangopackages.org/grids/g/admin-styling/
https://realpython.com/customize-django-admin-python/
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/contrib/admin/
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/contrib/admin/#multiple-admin-sites-in-the-same-urlconf
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/templates/

Thank You

🙏

Bharat Saraswat

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