django-wpadmin 0.1.2

WordPress look and feel for Django administration panel.

Features

• Optional fixed (in CSS positioning terms) top menu with branding, user options (change password, logout, gravatar) and any other menu items

• Optional fully configurable left menu with nice WordPress style

• Left menu can be pinned (fixed CSS position) or unpinned and collapsed or expanded

• Awesome Font Awesome icons supported in both menus

• Multiple AdminSite’s support with possibility to have different menus, colors and title for each one

• Supports Django 1.4.x and 1.5.x

• WordPress look and feel for objects lists

TODO

• WordPress look and feel for objects edit pages

• TinyMCE integration with WordPress theme

• django-filebrowser integration

• Bookmarks support

Demo

Try sample_project here or download django-wpadmin and run it on your own machine. sample_project contains SQLite database file with prepopulated sample data.

Installation

• Install django-wpadmin from PyPi:

  pip install django-wpadmin

• Or from GitHub:

  pip install -e git+https://github.com/barszczmm/django-wpadmin.git#egg=django-wpadmin

• Add to your INSTALLED_APPS before django.contrib.admin:

  INSTALLED_APPS = (
      # Django WP Admin must be before django.contrib.admin
      'wpadmin',
      'wpadmin.menu',
      'wpadmin.dashboard',
  )

• Add django.core.context_processors.request to TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS setting.

Basic configuration

Add to settings.py:

WPADMIN = {
    'admin': {
        'menu': {
            'top': 'wpadmin.menu.menus.TopMenu',
            'left': 'wpadmin.menu.menus.LeftMenu',
        }
    },
}

Advanced configuration

Please take a look at the code in sample_project.

This app takes a lot of ideas and a lot of code from django-admin-tools app, so it is also good idea to read django-admin-tools docs.

Credits

Python code is heavily based on django-admin-tools app. WordPress look and feel is of course inspired by WordPress.

Changelog

v0.1.2 (2013-03-23)

• Django 1.3 support dropped! (there’s too much differences between Django 1.3 and 1.4)

• installation process slightly changed (there’s no need to copy or symlink base.html file for specific Django version)

• added WordPress look and feel for objects lists (change_list.html)

• CHANGELOG added

v0.1.1 (2013-03-19)

• installation scripts

• README and LICENSE files added

v0.1.0 (2013-03-19)

• top and left menu