Bootstrap your Django admin in 3 minutes

And do it without changing your existing codebase!

Do you want Bootstrap on your Django admin app? You do not want to mess with the templates? That's why I did it for you!

Updates

2013-01-17: Version bump to 0.3. Some UI cleaning and documentation. See the CHANGELOG for more details
2012-12-19: Version bump to 0.2. Sortable inlines. See the CHANGELOG for more details
2012-11-20: Version bump to 0.1.1. Couple of bugfixing, Bootstrap upgraded to version 2.2.1, etc. See the CHANGELOG for more details
2012-11-16: Package addded to Pypi. You should now be able to pip install django-admin-bootstrapped. Thank Cyril for the help!

What you'll get

a responsive interface (because Bootstrap is)
an heavy rewrite of the original django-admin templates, but with compatibility in mind.
collapsable elements
goodies like application name 'translations' without using the {% trans %} tag (to be documented)

Requirements

Django 1.4.x

Source code

On Github of course: https://github.com/riccardo-forina/django-admin-bootstrapped

Installation

pip install django-admin-bootstrapped (virtualenv highly suggested)
add django_admin_bootstrapped into the INSTALLED_APPS list before django.contrib.admin
have fun!

Contribute!

This is not a complete project. I know for sure that the tabular inline form wil not work, because I didn't style it. Surely there will be edge cases, but still this is a project I used in production. Unluckly my time is quite limited, so every kind of help will be gladly appreciated!

Goodies

Translate/change an application name with a template

With the default admin you can't change the application name, but django-admin-bootstrapped let you do it in a really easy way. Just create a file named admin_app_name.html into the application's template folder. Eg: myapp/templates/admin_app_name.html or project/templates/myapp/admin_app_name.html.

Add custom html to the change form of any model with a template

You can inject custom html on top of any change form creating a template named admin_model_MODELNAME_change_form.html into the application's template folder. Eg: myapp/templates/admin_model_mymodelname_change_form.html or project/templates/myapp/admin_model_mymodelname_change_form.html.

Inline sortable

You can add drag&drop sorting capability to any inline with a couple of changes to your code.

First, add a position field in your model (and sort your model accordingly), for example:

class TestSortable(models.Model):
    that = models.ForeignKey(TestMe)
    position = models.PositiveSmallIntegerField("Position")
    test_char = models.CharField(max_length=5)

    class Meta:
        ordering = ('position', )

Then in your admin.py create a class to handle the inline using the django_admin_bootstrapped.admin.models.SortableInline mixin, like this:

from django_admin_bootstrapped.admin.models import SortableInline
from models import TestSortable

class TestSortable(admin.StackedInline, SortableInline):
    model = TestSortable
    extra = 0

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