Question

The title block is not overriding when creating a custom version of base_site.html in /project_dir/templates/admin/base_site.html. The correct template is being rendered, however the title/branding block does not change on the page even when setting the blocks as follows. I have a hunch that the issue is related to django_admin_tools, but am not sure yet at this time.

{% block title %}Super Awesome new admin title{% endblock %}

and

{% block branding %}
    <h1 id="site-name">Super Awesome new admin branding</h1>
{% endblock %}

Edit:

results of grep for {% block branding %} in both the project and in python libs finds it in 4 locations

$ grep -r "{% block branding %}" /path/to/
/path/to/virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/admin_tools/theming/templates/admin/base.html:        {% block branding %}{% endblock %}
/path/to/virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/admin_tools/menu/templates/admin/base_site.html:{% block branding %}
/path/to/virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.3.1-py2.7.egg/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/base.html:        {% block branding %}{% endblock %}
/path/to/virtualenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.3.1-py2.7.egg/django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/base_site.html:{% block branding %}
/path/to/project/templates/admin/base.html:        {% block branding %}{% endblock %}
/path/to/project/templates/admin/base_site.html:{% block branding %}

In the project base_site.html I change {% load i18n admin_tools_menu_tags %} to something wrong like {% load i18nn admin_tools_menu_tags %} (add an n to i18n) and get an error so I know the template is at least being correctly chosen.

Any suggestions on what would be causing my blocks to be ignored or overridden somewhere else? As shown above, I don’t see where else they could possibly be overridden.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Django admin tools uses a photo to brand the admin….not the branding block.