Gipsy toolbar

This Django app manages a toolbar for admins with shortcuts to easily navigate to most relevant admin features.

Install

It is strongly recommanded to install this theme from GIT with PIP onto you project virtualenv. You will also need to install gipsy tools.

Add this line to your requirements.txt file:

-e git+https://github.com/RevSquare/gipsy_toolbar#egg=gipsy_toolbar
-e git+https://github.com/RevSquare/gipsy_toolbar#egg=gipsy_tools

And run:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Setup

Simply add the app in your installed apps list in settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'gipsy_toolbar'
    ...
)

Then install your model with

python manage.py syncdb

In case you are using South, you can alternatively do:

python manage.py migrate gipsy_toolbar

Setup your menu items in the admin.

And finaly, install the toolbar in your templates with a template tag:

{% load gipsy_toolbar %}

{% gipsy_toolbar %}

For the admin part, you will need to overwrite templates with the same code as above: {templates}/admin/base.html

If you are using a cache engine such as Varnish, you can use a bundled middleware in order to set a cookie that you can use to deactivate cache to display the toolkbar for staff admins. Happy to hear abotu a cleaner solution.

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    ...
    'gipsy_toolbar.middleware.GipsyToolbarMiddleware',
    ...
)

Please feel free to contribute.