Welcome to django-admin-tools’s documentation!

This documentation covers the latest release of django-admin-tools, a collection of extensions and tools for the Django administration interface, django-admin-tools includes:

• a full featured and customizable dashboard (for the admin index page and the admin applications index pages),
• a customizable menu bar,
• tools to make admin theming easier.

Note

This documentation covers the latest version of django-admin-tools (tip). For older versions please follow the links below:

• Version 0.4.0
• Version 0.4.0
• Version 0.3.0
• Version 0.2.0
• Version 0.1.1
• Version 0.1.0

To get up and running quickly, consult the quick-start guide, which describes all the necessary steps to install django-admin-tools and configure it for the default setup. For more detailed information about how to install and how to customize django-admin-tools, read through the documentation listed below.

Contents:

• Quick start guide
  • Installing django-admin-tools
  • Basic configuration
  • Testing your new shiny admin interface
• Installation guide
  • Requirements
  • Installing django-admin-tools
• Configuring django-admin-tools
  • Basic configuration
  • Available settings variables
• Customization of the django-admin-tools modules
  • Introduction
  • Customizing the navigation menu
  • Customizing the dashboards
  • Customizing the theme
• Working with multiple admin sites
  • Introduction
  • Setting up a different dashboard for each admin site instance
• The django-admin-tools menu and menu items API
  • The Menu class
  • The MenuItem class
  • The AppList class
  • The ModelList class
  • The Bookmarks class
• The django-admin-tools dashboard and dashboard modules API
  • The Dashboard class
  • The AppIndexDashboard class
  • The DashboardModule class
  • The Group class
  • The LinkList class
  • The AppList class
  • The ModelList class
  • The RecentActions class
  • The Feed class
• Integration with third party applications
• Contributing to django-admin-tools
• Testing of django-admin-tools
  • Running tests
  • Code coverage report
  • Where tests live