Django Admin Notice

Show a floating notice banner above the Django admin interface. Particularly useful for indicating the current deployment environment.

Installation

Install django-admin-notice by running pip install django-admin-notice

Add admin_notice to your INSTALLED_APPS somewhere before django.contrib.admin.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    "admin_notice",  # <-- Add this somewhere before "django.contrib.admin"
    "django.contrib.admin",
    # ... other apps
]

Add admin_notice.context_processors.notice to the templates context_processors. Having django.template.context_processors.request is required as well.

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        "OPTIONS": {
            "context_processors": [
                "django.template.context_processors.request",  # <-- have this
                "admin_notice.context_processors.notice",  # <-- Add this
                # ... other context processors
            ]
        },
    },
]

Settings

Set the ADMIN_NOTICE_TEXT to the text you want to show above the admin interface. No message is shown if this setting is missing or empty.

ADMIN_NOTICE_TEXT = "Production environment"

Optionally specify a custom text color and background for your notice. The default text color is white and the default background red.

ADMIN_NOTICE_TEXT_COLOR = "white"
ADMIN_NOTICE_BACKGROUND = "red"

Furthermore, optional dark theme color variants can be specified. The dark theme colors default to the non-dark theme colors.

ADMIN_NOTICE_TEXT_COLOR_DARK = "#f2f2f2"
ADMIN_NOTICE_BACKGROUND_DARK = "#FA8072"

Tips

It's a common use case to indicate the projects deployment environment. The following configuration shows how to obtain the django-admin-notice configuration from environment variables and how to configure a fallback.

from os import environ

ADMIN_NOTICE_TEXT = environ.get("ADMIN_NOTICE_TEXT", "Local environment")
ADMIN_NOTICE_TEXT_COLOR = environ.get("ADMIN_NOTICE_TEXT_COLOR", "white")
ADMIN_NOTICE_BACKGROUND = environ.get("ADMIN_NOTICE_BACKGROUND", "green")

Example project

Take a look at our Django example project under tests/project. You can run it by executing these commands:

1. uv sync
2. uv run tests/project/manage.py migrate
3. uv run tests/project/manage.py createsuperuser
4. uv run tests/project/manage.py runserver