django admin, extending admin with custom views

Question

I would like to request some assistance regarding this matter.

I have followed this guide to add a view to my admin.

I am using the same code that the site has a

Answer 1

This code below will override the default admin site to write your custom view.

Works for Django >= 2.1 :

###myproject/admin.py

from django.contrib import admin
from django.http import HttpResponse

class MyAdminSite(admin.AdminSite):

    def my_view(self, request): # your custom view function
        return HttpResponse("Test")

    def get_urls(self):
        from django.urls import path

        urlpatterns = super().get_urls()
        urlpatterns += [
            path('my_view/', self.admin_view(self.my_view))
        ]
        return urlpatterns

###myproject/apps.py

from django.contrib.admin.apps import AdminConfig

class MyAdminConfig(AdminConfig):
    default_site = 'myproject.admin.MyAdminSite'

###myproject/settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'myproject.apps.MyAdminConfig',  # replaces 'django.contrib.admin'
    ...
]

Then go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/my_view/