One of the most useful parts of django.contrib.admin is the ability to configure various views that touch and alter data. django-admin2 is a complete rewrite of that library using modern Class-Based Views and enjoying a design focused on extendibility and adaptability. By starting over, we can avoid the legacy code and make it easier to write extensions and themes.

• Rewrite of the Django Admin backend
• Drop-in themes
• Built-in RESTful API

• Django 1.5+
• Python 2.7+ or Python 3.3+
• django-braces
• django-extra-views
• django-floppyforms
• django-rest-framework
• Sphinx (for documentation)

Use pip to install from PyPI:

pip install django-admin2

Add djadmin2 and rest_framework to your settings file:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
   ...
   'djadmin2',
   'rest_framework', # for the browsable API templates
   ...
)

Add djadmin2 urls to your URLconf:

# urls.py
from django.conf.urls import patterns, include

import djadmin2

djadmin2.default.autodiscover()


urlpatterns = patterns(
   ...
   url(r'^admin2/', include(djadmin2.default.urls)),
)

# myapp/admin2.py
# Import your custom models
from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm, UserChangeForm
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

from .models import Post, Comment

import djadmin2


class UserAdmin2(djadmin2.ModelAdmin2):
    # Replicates the traditional admin for django.contrib.auth.models.User
    create_form_class = UserCreationForm
    update_form_class = UserChangeForm


#  Register each model with the admin
djadmin2.default.register(Post)
djadmin2.default.register(Comment)
djadmin2.default.register(User, UserAdmin2)

The default theme is whatever bootstrap is most current. Specifically:

# settings.py
ADMIN2_THEME_DIRECTORY = "admin2/bootstrap/"

If you create a new theme, you define it thus:

# settings.py
ADMIN2_THEME_DIRECTORY = "admin2/foundation/"

0.4.0 (2013-06-30)

• Implemented both Function- and Class-based Action views
• Implemented ModelAdmin2.list_display
• Implemented ModelAdmin2.fieldsets
• Dropdown widget now displays the selected choice
• Added support for callables in ModelAdmin2.list_display
• Added screenshots to README
• Added second example project
• Fixed breadcrumbs
• Default theme: Proper closing of template and media blocks
• Default theme: Standardized indentation in default theme templates
• Default theme: Pointed to CDN for JQuery
• Default theme: Added basic style for login form
• Default theme: Internationalized all text strings

0.3.0 (2013-05-31)

• HTML5 forms via floppyforms.
• Many API improvements.
• Added Breadcrumbs.
• Added Login, Logout, ChangePassword views.
• Added Actions.
• Added support for inlines.
• Added view based permission controls
• Implement delete confirmations for child models.
• Testrunner now can run on a specific test set or module.
• Internal code refactoring to follow standards.
• Moved to git-flow for accepting pull requests.
• Model create/update pages now have save options.
• Added i18n to all templates, much of internal code.
• All print statements replaced with proper logging.
• Design goals specified in the documentation.

0.2.0 (2013-05-19)

• Birth! (Working Prototype)
• Easy-to-extend API that follows similar patterns to django.contrib.admin.
• Built-in RESTFUL API powered by django-rest-framework.
• Default theme built on Twitter Bootstrap.
• Easy to implement theme system.
• Basic permission controls.
• Testrunner
• Documentation

0.1.1 (2013-05-17)

• Code adoption from django-mongonaut.
• Preperation for Django Circus sprints.

0.1 (2013-05-13)

• Discussion with Russell Keith-Magee.
• Inception.