Web Development with Django Cookbook - Second Edition

Customizing default admin settings

Django apps as well as third-party apps come with their own administration settings; however, there is a mechanism to switch these settings off and use your own better administration settings. In this recipe, you will learn how to exchange the administration settings for the django.contrib.auth app with custom administration settings.

Getting ready

Create a custom_admin app and put this app under INSTALLED_APPS in the settings.

How to do it...

Insert the following content in the new admin.py file in the custom_admin app:

# custom_admin/admin.py # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- from __future__ import unicode_literals from django.contrib import admin from django.contrib.auth.admin import UserAdmin, GroupAdmin from django.contrib.auth.admin ...