Django Admin - change header 'Django administration' text

Question

How does one change the \'Django administration\' text in the django admin header?

It doesn\'t seem to be covered in the \"Customizing the admin\" documentation.

Answer 1

From Django 2.0 you can just add a single line in the url.py and change the name.

# url.py

from django.contrib import admin 
admin.site.site_header = "My Admin Central" # Add this

For older versions of Django. (<1.11 and earlier) you need to edit admin/base_site.html

Change this line

{% block title %}{{ title }} | {{ site_title|default:_('Django site admin') }}{% endblock %}

to

{% block title %}{{ title }} | {{ site_title|default:_('Your Site name Admin Central') }}{% endblock %}

You can check your django version by

django-admin --version

Answer 2

There is an easy way to set admin site header - assign it to current admin instance in urls.py like this

admin.site.site_header = 'My admin'

Or one can implement some header-building magic in separate method

admin.site.site_header = get_admin_header()

Thus, in simple cases there's no need to subclass AdminSite

Answer 3

The easiest way of doing it make sure you have

from django.contrib import admin

and then just add these at bottom of url.py of you main application

admin.site.site_title = "Your App Title"
admin.site.site_header = "Your App Admin" 

Answer 4

admin.py:

from django.contrib.admin import AdminSite

AdminSite.site_title = ugettext_lazy('My Admin')

AdminSite.site_header = ugettext_lazy('My Administration')

AdminSite.index_title = ugettext_lazy('DATA BASE ADMINISTRATION')

Answer 5

You can use AdminSite.site_header to change that text. Here is the docs

Answer 6

There are two methods to do this:

1] By overriding base_site.html in django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/base_site.html: Following is the content of base_site.html:

{% extends "admin/base.html" %}

{% block title %}{{ title }} | {{ site_title|default:_('Django site admin') }}{% endblock %}

{% block branding %}
<h1 id="site-name"><a href="{% url 'admin:index' %}">{{ site_header|default:_('Django administration') }}</a></h1>
{% endblock %}

{% block nav-global %}{% endblock %}

Edit the site_title & site_header in the above code snippet. This method works but it is not recommendable since its a static change.

2] By adding following lines in urls.py of project's directory:

admin.site.site_header = "AppHeader"
admin.site.site_title = "AppTitle"
admin.site.index_title = "IndexTitle"
admin.site.site_url = "Url for view site button"

This method is recommended one since we can change the site-header, site-title & index-title without editing base_site.html.