Django admin site: how to create a single page for global settings?

Question

I would like to create a single page in the admin site of django where I can change some global variables of the website (title of the website, items in the navigation menu, etc). At the moment I have them coded as context processors but I would like to make them editable. Something similar to what happens in WordPress.

Is this possible?

• I can store the data in the databse, but can I have a link in the admin site that goes straight to the first document record and doesnt allow the creation of multiple records (they wouldnt make sense)
• Instead of creating a model in the database, would it be possible to change some context_processor from the admin site (I think this would be best)

Answer 1

This sounds like what the sites framework is intended to help with.

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/sites/

"It’s a hook for associating objects and functionality to particular Web sites, and it’s a holding place for the domain names and “verbose” names of your Django-powered sites."

The docs make it sound like it's only good for multiple sites, but it's a great place to put stuff in a single-site-per-django model too.

Answer 2

There's an app called django-values that allows you storing of specific settings in the database.

Answer 3

django-preferences does exactly what you are looking for. The implementation is a bit hacky (particularly the setting of module on the model class to trick Django into thinking it was loaded from a different app), but it works.