How does one change the 'Django administration' text in the django admin header?
It doesn't seem to be covered in the "Customizing the admin" documentation.
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The easiest way of doing it make sure you have
from django.contrib import admin
and then just add these at bottom of url.py
of you main application
admin.site.site_title = "Your App Title"
admin.site.site_header = "Your App Admin"
You just override the admin/base_site.html
template (copy the template from django.contrib.admin.templates
and put in your own admin template dir) and replace the branding
block.
In urls.py
you can override the 3 most important variables:
from django.contrib import admin
admin.site.site_header = 'My project' # default: "Django Administration"
admin.site.index_title = 'Features area' # default: "Site administration"
admin.site.site_title = 'HTML title from adminsitration' # default: "Django site admin"
Reference: Django documentation on these attributes.
You can use these following lines in your main urls.py
you can add the text in the quotes to be displayed
To replace the text Django admin use admin.site.site_header = ""
To replace the text Site Administration use admin.site.site_title = ""
To replace the site name you can use admin.site.index_title = ""
To replace the url of the view site button you can use admin.site.site_url = ""
As you can see in the templates, the text is delivered via the localization framework (note the use of the trans
template tag). You can make changes to the translation files to override the text without making your own copy of the templates.
mkdir locale
./manage.py makemessages
Edit locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/django.po
, adding these lines:
msgid "Django site admin"
msgstr "MySite site admin"
msgid "Django administration"
msgstr "MySite administration"
./manage.py compilemessages
See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/i18n/localization/#message-files
A simple complete solution in Django 1.8.3 based on answers in this question.
In settings.py
add:
ADMIN_SITE_HEADER = "My shiny new administration"
In urls.py
add:
from django.conf import settings
admin.site.site_header = settings.ADMIN_SITE_HEADER
As of Django 1.7 you don't need to override templates. You can now implement site_header, site_title
, and index_title
attributes on a custom AdminSite in order to easily change the admin site’s page title and header text. Create an AdminSite subclass and hook your instance into your URLconf:
admin.py:
from django.contrib.admin import AdminSite
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy
class MyAdminSite(AdminSite):
# Text to put at the end of each page's <title>.
site_title = ugettext_lazy('My site admin')
# Text to put in each page's <h1> (and above login form).
site_header = ugettext_lazy('My administration')
# Text to put at the top of the admin index page.
index_title = ugettext_lazy('Site administration')
admin_site = MyAdminSite()
urls.py:
from django.conf.urls import patterns, include
from myproject.admin import admin_site
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^myadmin/', include(admin_site.urls)),
)
Update: As pointed out by oxfn you can simply set the site_header
in your urls.py
or admin.py
directly without subclassing AdminSite
:
admin.site.site_header = 'My administration'
Hope am not too late to the party, The easiest would be to edit the admin.py file.
admin.site.site_header = 'your_header'
admin.site.site_title = 'site_title'
admin.site.index_title = 'index_title'
There is an easy way to set admin site header - assign it to current admin instance in urls.py
like this
admin.site.site_header = 'My admin'
Or one can implement some header-building magic in separate method
admin.site.site_header = get_admin_header()
Thus, in simple cases there's no need to subclass AdminSite
From Django 2.0 you can just add a single line in the url.py
and change the name.
# url.py
from django.contrib import admin
admin.site.site_header = "My Admin Central" # Add this
For older versions of Django. (<1.11 and earlier) you need to edit admin/base_site.html
Change this line
{% block title %}{{ title }} | {{ site_title|default:_('Django site admin') }}{% endblock %}
to
{% block title %}{{ title }} | {{ site_title|default:_('Your Site name Admin Central') }}{% endblock %}
You can check your django
version by
django-admin --version
Since I only use admin interface in my app, I put this in the admin.py :
admin.site.site_header = 'My administration'
You can use AdminSite.site_header
to change that text. Here is the docs
Just go to admin.py file and add this line in the file :
admin.site.site_header = "My Administration"
you do not need to change any template for this work you just need to update the settings.py
of your project. Go to the bottom of the settings.py
and define this.
admin.site.site_header = 'My Site Admin'
In this way you would be able to change the header of the of the Django admin. Moreover you can read more about Django Admin customization and settings on the following link.
First of all, you should add templates/admin/base_site.html to your project. This file can safely be overwritten since it’s a file that the Django devs have intended for the exact purpose of customizing your admin site a bit. Here’s an example of what to put in the file:
{% extends "admin/base.html" %}
{% load i18n %}
{% block title %}{{ title }} | {% trans 'Some Organisation' %}{% endblock %}
{% block branding %}
<style type="text/css">
#header
{
/* your style here */
}
</style>
<h1 id="site-name">{% trans 'Organisation Website' %}</h1>
{% endblock %}
{% block nav-global %}{% endblock %}
This is common practice. But I noticed after this that I was still left with an annoying “Site Administration” on the main admin index page. And this string was not inside any of the templates, but rather set inside the admin view. Luckily it’s quite easy to change. Assuming your language is set to English, run the following commands from your project directory:
$ mkdir locale
$ ./manage.py makemessages -l en
Now open up the file locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/django.po and add two lines after the header information (the last two lines of this example)
"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2010-04-03 03:25+0200\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <[email protected]>\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
msgid "Site administration"
msgstr "Main administration index"
After this, remember to run the following command and reload your project’s server:
$ ./manage.py compilemessages
source: http://overtag.dk/wordpress/2010/04/changing-the-django-admin-site-title/
For Django 2.1.1 add following lines to urls.py
from django.contrib import admin
# Admin Site Config
admin.sites.AdminSite.site_header = 'My site admin header'
admin.sites.AdminSite.site_title = 'My site admin title'
admin.sites.AdminSite.index_title = 'My site admin index'
admin.py:
from django.contrib.admin import AdminSite
AdminSite.site_title = ugettext_lazy('My Admin')
AdminSite.site_header = ugettext_lazy('My Administration')
AdminSite.index_title = ugettext_lazy('DATA BASE ADMINISTRATION')
There are two methods to do this:
1] By overriding base_site.html
in django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/base_site.html
:
Following is the content of base_site.html
:
{% 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:_('Django administration') }}</a></h1>
{% endblock %}
{% block nav-global %}{% endblock %}
Edit the site_title & site_header in the above code snippet. This method works but it is not recommendable since its a static change.
2] By adding following lines in urls.py
of project's directory:
admin.site.site_header = "AppHeader"
admin.site.site_title = "AppTitle"
admin.site.index_title = "IndexTitle"
admin.site.site_url = "Url for view site button"
This method is recommended one since we can change the site-header, site-title & index-title without editing base_site.html
.
Source: Stackoverflow.com