Django Admin Templating

Question

Hi, I am learning django and building my own project.
I want to change the admin section to my own interface, I have added sub-directory to the templates names "admin".And started change the base.html

The problems are-

I want to add my own css file, how I can do it?My css file is located on my MEDIA_ROOT directory.How I can do that?

I saw a lot of template tags,Where I can see which template tags are available to me on the admin section?

There is a clean admin template like Starkers for Wordpress

Yosy

Answer 1

1) If "django.core.context_processors.media" is included in TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS (which is by default) in your settings.py, you can add <link> to {{ MEDIA_URL }}/your_stylesheet.css in templates/admin/base.html, like so (I'm using Django 1.2 admin templates):

...
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% block stylesheet %}{% load adminmedia %}{% admin_media_prefix %}css/base.css{% endblock %}" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ MEDIA_URL }}/your_stylesheet.css" />
...

2) You can use all tags everywhere, if you {%load%}ed them before. There are admin specific tags, which could be found in Django source here - unfortunately I'm not aware of any docs about them, so seems like you have to read the source.

3) I haven't heard about such thing for Django admin, there is however project named Grappelli that improves Django admin looks and functionality, providing slightly friendlier templates as side effect.