Gain insights into the Django Admin interface, learn about automatic generation, data management, custom functionalities, advanced UI customization, and explore admin rights permission management.

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In this course, you will learn the basics of the Django Admin interface, a great tool to build a powerful admin interface quickly for your Django project. 

First, you will learn how to automatically generate the admin interface for your Django models, how to populate fake data, and then search or filter data with some advice to improve performance. 

Next, you will see how to extend the functionalities of the admin interface such as adding custom fields, add intermediate pages, or creating custom actions like exporting data in CSV format.

After that, you will also explore basic and advanced UI customization such as adding charts or modifying the index page.Finally, you will have a look at the Django admin rights permission management.

The Django Admin for Web Developers

# Design customization

You will now focus on design. The Django admin lets you override its HTML templates for you to add your own custom elements or even rebrand the full design of the interface.

You can begin with simple things.

You can change the site title and index title easily by configuring the following in `urls.py`:

```python
admin.site.site_header = "Django Admin Ultimate Guide"
admin.site.site_title = "Django Admin Title"
admin.site.index_title = "Welcome to Ultimate Guide"
```

- `site_header`: The text placed at the top of each admin page, as an **\<h1>** (a string). By default, this is “Django administration”.
- `site_title`: The text found at the end of each admin page’s \<title> (a string). By
default, this is “Django site admin”.
- `index_title`: The text positioned at the top of the admin index page (a string). By default, this is “Site administration”.

To remove some models from the admin, you can unregister them in `sample_app/admin.py`.

```python
admin.site.unregister(User)
admin.site.unregister(Group)
```
And now, you will see that the Authentification menu has been removed.


# Customising admin class

You can also create your own `Admin` class inside `sample_app/admin.py`:

```python
from django.contrib.admin import AdminSite

## Custom admin site
class MyUltimateAdminSite(AdminSite):
	site_header = 'My Django Admin Ultimate Guide'
	site_title = 'My Django Admin Ultimate Guide Administration'
	index_title = 'Welcome to my "sample_app"'

site = MyUltimateAdminSite()
```

Then in `helloworld/urls.py`, you need to adapt your code to use your new admin class.

```python
from sample_app.admin import site
admin.site = site
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = [
	path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
]
```

Finally, you need to explicitly register your models to your new admin in `sample_app/admin.py`.

```python
site.register(Author,AuthorAdmin)
site.register(Question,QuestionAdmin)
site.register(Choice,ChoiceAdmin)
site.register(Group)
site.register(User)
```
> Be careful because the previous method `@admin.register` will not work anymore.


Using a custom class will allow you to do more functionalities with the templates
customization, as you will see in the [Advanced Customization](https://www.educative.io/courses/django-admin-web-developers/admin-branding-customization) section of the course.

# Try it yourself

In the code widget below, try out the things you learned in this lesson: 
- Try custom names for `site_header`, `site_title` and `index_title`.
- Unregister the group and user models.
- Create a custom admin class and register your models with this new custom class.

> **How to see the output**: To see the output of your code after making any changes, click the Run button and open the link provided below the code widget in a new browser tab, or switch to the Output tab of the widget. To log in to the Django Admin page, use the following credentials:
> 
> - `Username`: educative
> - `Password`: edu1234

Learn about basic design customization and how to create a custom admin class.

Getting Started

Design Customization

Advanced Customization

Access and Rights Management

Conclusion

Basics Customization

Design customization