django admin error - Unknown column 'django_content_type.name' in 'field list'

Question

My django project had a working admin page, but all of the sudden I started receiving: \"Unknown column \'django_content_type.name\' in \'field list\'\" whenev

Answer 1

Caused by two different versions of Django being installed. I had the error when I had Django1.7 installed locally and 1.8 in a virtualenv.

pip uninstall django

for the local version, and then restarting manage.py runserver from within the virtualenv fixed the error for me.