10. Advanced Django Admin and Customizations

Overview

This chapter introduces you to advanced customizations to the Django Admin site so that you can tailor the appearance of the Django Admin dashboard to make it blend with the rest of your web project. You will see how new features and capabilities can be added to your web project's Django admin interface to make it substantially more powerful and useful for your project's goals. These customizations are driven by the addition of custom templates that help modify the look and feel of existing pages. These custom templates also add new views that can help extend the default functionalities of the Admin dashboard. Completing this chapter will equip you with skills that not only let you customize the interface, but also the functionality of your project's Django-based admin page.