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darkhorse
darkhorse

Reputation: 8742

Why can't I over-ride the default template in Django-admin?

I am trying to change the base_site.html to have my own branding on my admin site. However, I can't get it to work. I followed this tutorial. Anyway, here are the steps:

Added the DIRS settings to settings.py

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',

                # `allauth` needs this from django
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
            ],
        },
    },
]

Made a folder called admin in myapp/templates/ and copied the base_site.html and pasted it there. Next, I edited myapp/templates/admin/base_site.html to look like this:

{% extends "admin/base.html" %}

{% block title %}{{ title }} | {{ site_title|default:_('Django site admin') }}{% endblock %}

{% block branding %}
<h1 id="site-name"><a href="{% url 'admin:index' %}">{{ site_header|default:_('MYBRAND Administration') }}</a></h1>
{% endblock %}

{% block nav-global %}{% endblock %}

I also copied base.html and pasted it in my admin folder for good measure. Still, it did not work :/

I even made a folder myProject/templates/admin and pasted the 2 html files in it and even then nothing changed.

What am I doing wrong? BTW, I am using Django-1.9.2.

UPDATE:

I even changed the template in django/contrib/admin/templates. I know Im not supposed to do that, but it was just a test. Even then the change did not work. I am honestly stumped :/ Any help is appreciated. Could be a bug in Django btw?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 264

Answers (1)

Roberth Sol&#237;s
Roberth Sol&#237;s

Reputation: 1559

You need replace all text in the template base_site.html:

From:

{% block branding %}
  <h1 id="site-name"><a href="{% url 'admin:index' %}">{{ site_header|default:_('MYBRAND Administration') }}</a></h1>
{% endblock %}

To:

{% block branding %}
  <h1 id="site-name"><a href="{% url 'admin:index' %}">Your Site Name Here</a></h1>
{% endblock %}

if you dont see the name with this recomendation, you need to try clear the cache bowser or restart your enviroment

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Look this:

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Upvotes: 1

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