Customize admin page title (from tutorial)

[pranee...@gmail.com]

Hi,

     I am new to django. I am following Django tutorial(part2). I want to know how to customize title of my admin page from "Django administration" to " some Text". Help me......! Thanks in advance..

[Andreas Kuhne]

I don't know if it is possible, but you can do it with the django-grappelli plugin

Med vänliga hälsningar,

Andréas Kühne

Software Development Manager

Suitopia Scandinavia AB

2014-10-18 14:16 GMT+02:00 <pranee...@gmail.com>:

Hi,

     I am new to django. I am following Django tutorial(part2). I want to know how to customize title of my admin page from "Django administration" to " some Text". Help me......! Thanks in advance..

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[Pat Claffey]

Hi,

yes this is possible.  I have recently done this tutorial and succeeded  in customizing the title.

In my opinion the instructions in this part of the tutorial are hard to understand.  Here is what I did:

1.0 Navigate to the project directory mysite/mysite/ 

2.0 Create a new sub-directory called templates.  You should now have a directory mysite/mysite/templates/

3.0 Create a new sub-directory called admin in the above templates sub-directory.  You should now have a directory mysite/mysite/templates/admin/

4.0 Edit the settings file (mysite/settings.py) and add a TEMPLATE_DIRS setting:

TEMPLATE_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')]

5.0 Find the path of the django source files on your system.  

To find this path open the python interpreter; import django and print the value of django.__path__ using the python command print(django.__path__)

6.0 On your file system navigate to the directory path obtained above from django.__path__ variable.  You should see a directory called contrib.  navigate to contrib/admin/templates/admin/

You should see a source file called base_site.html

7.0 Copy the above source file base_site.html into the directory mysite/mysite/templates/admin/.  You should now have a file mysite/mysite/templates/admin/base_site.html

8.0 Edit the above file and replace {{ site_header|default:_('Django administration') }} (including the curly braces) with the new site name.

If the desired new site name is "My Company Name" then you should see 

<h1 id="site-name"><a href="{% url 'admin:index' %}">My Company Name</a></h1>

9.0 Open the admin screen.  You may need to refresh this page.  You should now see that the label at the top of the page has changed.

There are a lot of steps - it is not a simple procedure.

Please let me know if above steps are clear, or if they can be improved.

Regards,

Pat

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Or, if you're using Django 1.7, you can change the site header (amongst other labels) as a configuration item:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ref/contrib/admin/#adminsite-attributes

Yours,

Russ Magee %-)

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[Carl Meyer]

Hi Pat,

I think these instructions are correct, except for the paths. Unless
you've modified the definition of the BASE_DIR setting in the default
Django project template, BASE_DIR will point to the outer workspace
"mysite" directory, not the inner Python package (mysite/mysite). So
you'd want to create `mysite/templates`, not `mysite/mysite/templates`,
to match a TEMPLATE_DIRS setting of `[os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')]`.

I'm not sure how to explain your success using the above steps. Perhaps
you have `'mysite'` in your INSTALLED_APPS, and thus your templates in
`mysite/mysite/templates` are being picked up by the app-dirs template
loader?

Carl

[Pat Claffey]

On Saturday, October 18, 2014 1:16:32 PM UTC+1, pranee...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

     I am new to django. I am following Django tutorial(part2). I want to know how to customize title of my admin page from "Django administration" to " some Text". Help me......! Thanks in advance..

Following Carl's corrections here are the instructions.  There should be two mysite/ directories.  The project directory is the outer  mysite/ directory.

Please let me know it this works for you.

Thanks to Carl for his feedback - hopefully the following is correct.

1.0 Navigate to the project directory mysite/  

2.0 Create a new sub-directory called templates.  You should now have a directory mysite/templates/

3.0 Create a new sub-directory called admin in the above templates sub-directory.  You should now have a directory mysite/templates/admin/

4.0 Edit the settings file (mysite/mysite/settings.py) and add a TEMPLATE_DIRS setting:

TEMPLATE_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')]

5.0 Find the path of the django source files on your system.  

To find this path open the python interpreter; import django and print the value of django.__path__ using the python command print(django.__path__)

6.0 On your file system navigate to the directory path obtained above from django.__path__ variable.  You should see a directory called contrib.  navigate to contrib/admin/templates/admin/

You should see a source file called base_site.html

7.0 Copy the above source file base_site.html into the directory mysite/templates/admin/.  You should now have a file mysite/templates/admin/base_site.html