Before installing django-admin-tools, you'll need to have a copy of Django already installed. For the |version| release, Django 1.7 or newer is required.
Note
Important note to users of django 1.6 or below: starting from 0.6.0, django-admin-tools is NOT compatible with django <= 1.6. If you want, you can still use the 0.5.2 version that will always be available on Pypi.
django-admin-tools requires Django version 1.3 or superior, optionally, if you want to display feed modules, you'll also need the Universal Feed Parser module.
There are several ways to install django-admin-tools, this is explained in :ref:`the installation section <installation>`.
For the impatient, the easiest method is to install django-admin-tools via easy_install or pip.
Using easy_install
, type:
easy_install -Z django-admin-tools
Note that the -Z
flag is required, to tell easy_install
not to
create a zipped package; zipped packages prevent certain features of
Django from working properly.
Using pip
, type:
pip install django-admin-tools
For a more detailed guide on how to configure django-admin-tools, please consult :ref:`the configuration section <configuration>`.
In order to use django-admin-tools you obviously need to have configured your Django admin site. If you didn't, please refer to the relevant django documentation.
First make sure you have the django.core.context_processors.request
template context processor in your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS
.
Note
Starting from django 1.8, TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS
is deprecated,
you must add the request context processor in your TEMPLATES
variable
instead, please refer to the
relevant django documentation.
Then, add admin_tools and its modules to the INSTALLED_APPS
like this:
INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'admin_tools', 'admin_tools.theming', 'admin_tools.menu', 'admin_tools.dashboard', 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.admin' # ...other installed applications... )
Important
it is very important that you put the admin_tools modules before
the django.contrib.admin module
, because django-admin-tools
overrides the default Django admin templates, and this will not work
otherwise.
Then, just add django-admin-tools to your urls.py file:
urlpatterns = patterns('', url(r'^admin_tools/', include('admin_tools.urls')), #...other url patterns... )
Finally simply run:
python manage.py migrate
Congrats! At this point you should have a working installation of django-admin-tools. Now you can just login to your admin site and see what changed.
django-admin-tools is fully customizable, but this is out of the scope of this quickstart. To learn how to customize django-admin-tools modules please read :ref:`the customization section<customization>`.