diff --git a/example/settings.py b/example/settings.py
index 9b2796d2..ce88ba93 100644
--- a/example/settings.py
+++ b/example/settings.py
@@ -14,12 +14,15 @@
 
 MANAGERS = ADMINS
 
-DATABASE_ENGINE = 'sqlite3'           # 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'postgresql', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
-DATABASE_NAME = 'cms.db'             # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
-DATABASE_USER = ''             # Not used with sqlite3.
-DATABASE_PASSWORD = ''         # Not used with sqlite3.
-DATABASE_HOST = ''             # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
-DATABASE_PORT = ''             # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3.
+DATABASES = {
+    'default': {
+        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
+        'NAME': 'cms.db',
+        'USER': '',
+        'PASSWORD': '',
+        'HOST': '',
+    }
+}
 
 # Local time zone for this installation. Choices can be found here:
 # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_zones_by_name
@@ -38,12 +41,6 @@
 STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'static')
 STATIC_URL = '/static/'
 
-# Absolute path to the directory that holds pages media.
-# PAGES_MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(STATIC_ROOT, 'pages', 'media', 'pages')
-# Absolute path to the directory that holds media.
-ADMIN_MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(STATIC_ROOT, 'admin_media')
-ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/admin_media/'
-
 
 FIXTURE_DIRS = [os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'fixtures')]
 
@@ -52,15 +49,12 @@
 
 # List of callables that know how to import templates from various sources.
 TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
-    # this syntax is deprecated with django 1.2
-    'django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source',
-    'django.template.loaders.app_directories.load_template_source',
-    # could help
-    'django.template.loaders.eggs.load_template_source',
+    'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
+    'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
 )
 
 TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
-    "django.core.context_processors.auth",
+    "django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
     "django.core.context_processors.i18n",
     "django.core.context_processors.debug",
     "django.core.context_processors.request",
@@ -78,6 +72,7 @@
     'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.doc.XViewMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
+    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
 )
 
 ROOT_URLCONF = 'example.urls'
@@ -97,11 +92,11 @@
     'django.contrib.sessions',
     'django.contrib.admin',
     'django.contrib.sites',
+    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
     'pages.testproj.documents',
     'taggit',
     'pages',
     'mptt',
-    'staticfiles',
     #'tinymce',
     # disabled to make "setup.py test" to work properly
     #'south',
@@ -171,9 +166,13 @@ def language_mapping(lang):
 SITE_ID = 1
 PAGE_USE_SITE_ID = False
 
-HAYSTACK_SITECONF = 'example.search_sites'
-HAYSTACK_SEARCH_ENGINE = 'whoosh'
-HAYSTACK_WHOOSH_PATH = os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'whoosh_index')
+HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = {
+    'default': {
+        'ENGINE': 'haystack.backends.whoosh_backend.WhooshEngine',
+        'PATH': os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'whoosh_index'),
+        'INCLUDE_SPELLING': True,
+    },
+}
 
 PAGE_REAL_TIME_SEARCH = False
 
diff --git a/example/urls.py b/example/urls.py
index a2c7c9b3..89d1cf65 100644
--- a/example/urls.py
+++ b/example/urls.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 from django.conf.urls.defaults import url, include, patterns
 from django.conf.urls.defaults import handler404, handler500
 from django.contrib import admin
-from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns
 from pages.views import details
 
 from pages.urlconf_registry import register_urlconf
@@ -22,8 +21,6 @@
 
 )
 
-urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()
-
 urlpatterns += patterns('',
     # this gonna match /admin if someone forget the traling slash
     (r'^', include('pages.urls')),
diff --git a/pages/templates/admin/pages/page/change_list.html b/pages/templates/admin/pages/page/change_list.html
index 285f5aec..8a46ca30 100644
--- a/pages/templates/admin/pages/page/change_list.html
+++ b/pages/templates/admin/pages/page/change_list.html
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 <div id="toolbar">
 <form id="changelist-search" action="" method="post">
     <div>
-        <label for="searchbar"><img src="{% load adminmedia %}{% admin_media_prefix %}img/admin/icon_searchbox.png" alt="{% trans "Search" %}" /></label>
+        <label for="searchbar"><img src="{{ STATIC_URL }}admin/img/icon_searchbox.png" alt="{% trans "Search" %}" /></label>
         <input type="text" size="25" name="q" value="{{q}}" id="searchbar" />
         <input type="submit" name="g" value="{% trans "Go" %}" />
     </div>