Custom django admin templates not working

Question

I\'ve been trying to get custom templates for the admin page for Django working but have been unsuccessful. I\'ve read the django documentation and several blogs which explain i

Answer 1

One more mistake that one should resist making on this exercise. The exercise says to change this...

 {{ site_header|default:_('Django administration') }} 

to this...

Polls Administration

There is a temptation to only change the string constant, but that is incorrect. I.e. do NOT do this, it will not alter the heading:

 {{ site_header|default:_('Polls Administration') }} 

That was the mistake I made, and I had to go through the exercise meticulously to fix it.