Administering your Django website

Overview

The admin site

The site is just another app. you can use the built-in administration app by adding it to your settings.py file. By default it's already added.

The code

open the blog's admin.py file in a text editor:

nano script_builder/admin.py

from django.contrib import admin
from .models import Author, Genre, Book, BookInstance

admin.site.register(Book)
admin.site.register(Author)
admin.site.register(Genre)
admin.site.register(BookInstance)

python manage.py createsuperuser
python3 manage.py runserver

Go to

Adding Functionality

Option 1: Import/Export

External Resources

• custom admin buttons
  • https://www.loopwerk.io/articles/2023/adding-custom-actions-django-admin/
  • https://saxix.github.io/django-admin-extra-buttons/howto/
  • https://medium.com/@asif-biswas/learn-how-to-add-a-custom-button-to-django-admin-panel-the-easiest-way-c11d5d8781a6
  • https://django-admin-extra-buttons.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
  • https://hakibenita.com/how-to-add-custom-action-buttons-to-django-admin
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40760880/add-custom-button-to-django-admin-panel
  • https://github.com/crccheck/django-object-actions
  • https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.2/ref/contrib/admin/
  • https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.2/ref/contrib/admin/actions/
  • https://dev.to/rockandnull/effortless-django-model-import-export-from-the-admin-panel-h7p
  • https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.2/ref/contrib/admin/
  • https://www.lune.dev/questions/9016/how-can-i-add-a-custom-django-admin-button-to-import-json-data-for-creating-or-u
• django admin adders
  • https://realpython.com/customize-django-admin-python/
  • https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python/how-to-reset-django-admin-password/
• update fields:
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3681627/how-to-update-fields-in-a-model-without-creating-a-new-record-in-django