[Django]-Django admin: can I define fields order?

Building off rbennell’s answer I used a slightly different approach using the new get_fields method introduced in Django 1.7. Here I’ve overridden it (the code would be in the definition of the parent’s ModelAdmin) and removed and re-appended the “parent” field to the end of the list, so it will appear on the bottom of the screen. Using .insert(0,’parent’) would put it at the front of the list (which should be obvious if you’re familiar with python lists).

def get_fields (self, request, obj=None, **kwargs):
    fields = super().get_fields(request, obj, **kwargs)
    fields.remove('parent')
    fields.append('parent') #can also use insert
    return fields

This assumes that your fields are a list, to be honest I’m not sure if that’s an okay assumption, but it’s worked fine for me so far.

I know it’s an old question, but wanted to thow in my two cents, since my use case was exactly like this, but i had lots of models inheriting from one class, so didn’t want to write out fields for every admin. Instead I extended the get_form model and rearranged the fields to ensure parent always comes at the end of the fields in the admin panel for add/change view.

class BaseAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    def get_form(self, request, obj=None, **kwargs):
        form = super(BaseAdmin, self).get_form(request, obj, **kwargs)
        parent = form.base_fields.pop('parent')
        form.base_fields['parent '] = parent 
        return form

base_fields is an OrderedDict, so this appends the ‘parent’ key to the end.
Then, extend this admin for any classes where you want parent to appear at the end:

class GenreAdmin(BaseAdmin):
    pass

This simple solution from @acquayefrank (in the comments) worked for me:

The order of fields would depend on the order in which you declare them in your models.