[Answered ]-Overriding admin templates depending on Django version

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The ModelAdmin class has various template settings that you can specify in subclasses. In Django 1.3 these are (at django.contrib.admin.options, line 271):

add_form_template = None
change_form_template = None
change_list_template = None
delete_confirmation_template = None
delete_selected_confirmation_template = None
object_history_template = None

Similarly, AdminSite has various template settings (at django.contrib.admin.sites, line 35):

index_template = None
app_index_template = None
login_template = None
logout_template = None
password_change_template = None
password_change_done_template = None

You can override these for subclasses or specify them in a central location in your code (e.g., a __init__.py file). For example:

from django.contrib.admin.sites import AdminSite
AdminSite.index_template = '...'

You can then vary the templates based on the current Django version. You may need to check what the code looks like in earlier Django versions as I haven’t checked if all these variables are present in earlier Django admin code.

👤Simeon Visser

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