[Answer]-Django 1.4 – Manually import admin models

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There’s no reason not to use the django.contrib.admin.autodiscover, even if you subclassed AdminSite. This is the actual instrumentation that imports the admin module from all your Django applications registered in settings.INSTALLED_APPS, effectively registering the models with your admin site instance.

To recap if you have a project.admin.foo_site instance of your project.admin.FooAdminSite subclass:

# project/urls.py
from django.conf.urls import url
from django.contrib import admin

from project.admin import foo_site


admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^admin/', include(foo_site.urls)),
)

#project/app/admin.py
from project.admin import foo_site
from project.app.models import Bar


foo_site.register(Bar)
👤Filip Dupanović

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You need to set up an admin.py and register your models. Here’s a paraphrased version from the Django Tutorial:

To do this, create a file called admin.py in your app directory, and
edit it to look like this:

from django.contrib import admin
from app.models import Model1, Model2, Model3

admin.site.register(Model1)
admin.site.register(Model2)
admin.site.register(Model3)
👤mVChr

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