Question

I’ve organized my project as the following:

myproject/
    urls.py
    settings.py
    views.py
    templates/
    apps/
        __init__.py    <-- needed in order to be identified as a package
        exampleapp/
             __init__.py
             admin.py
             models.py
             urls.py
             views.py
        exampleapp2/
        ...

In my settings.py INSTALLED_APPS, the apps are name ‘apps.exampleapp1’, ‘apps.exampleapp2’ with the dot (.) notation indicating that the modules are in subdirectories. According to the documentation, if I wish to override or extend the admin templates for an app I need to make a directory in templates named ‘admin/appname/modelname/’ but I’ve tried both ‘admin/apps/exampleapp/’ and ‘admin/apps.exampleapp’ but neither work. Where in the django.contrib.admin code can I find how templates are replaced or, more simply, what directory path do I need to have in order to extend or replace an admin template?

Answer 1

How you organize your apps is inconsequential. The app’s name is still just its immediate foldername: “exampleapp” or “exampleapp2”.

So your admin template overrides should go in “/templates/admin/exampleapp/modelname/” and “/templates/admin/exampleapp2/modelname/”.