django-wpadmin 1.6.0

WordPress look and feel for Django administration panel.

Features

• WordPress look and feel

• New styles for selector, calendar and timepicker widgets

• More responsive (admin panel should look fine and be usable on displays with minimum 360px width)

• Editable top menu

• Optional fully configurable left menu

• 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 titles for each one

• 7 additional color themes included

• Collapsible fieldsets can be opened by default

TODO

• Better documentation

• Python 3 support

• django-filebrowser or django-filer integration

Demo

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

Installation

• Install django-wpadmin from PyPi:

  pip install django-wpadmin

• Or from GitHub:

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

Basic configuration

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

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

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

Documentation

Above basic configuration will only change look of Django’s admin page, but there’s much more you can do with Django WP Admin. Check out documentation on Read the Docs for details.

Translations

If you want to help to translate this software please join me on Transifex: transifex.com/projects/p/django-wp-admin/

Credits

Python code is based on django-admin-tools app.

WordPress look and feel is of course inspired by WordPress.

Included icons comes from Font Awesome.

Changelog

v1.6.0 (2014-03-11)

• backward compatibility breaking release!

• most of things was rewritten

• from now on there will be separate branch for each major Django version and Django Wp Admin will be versioned according to Django version it supports…

• …so this version is compatible only with Django 1.6.x

• all JavaScript libraries updated

• FontAwesome updated to version 4.0.3

• new WordPress admin look

• styles for selector widget

• styles for calendar widget

• styles for timepicker widget

• styles for delete confirmation page

• styles for history page

• collapsible fieldsets can be opened by default

• 7 additional color themes added

• added licenses for all included external files (fonts and JS)

• support for nested submenus

v0.2.0 (2013-04-02)

• styled object’s editing pages

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