Question

There’s a similar question concerning a field’s verbose_name: How to stop auto-capitalization of verbose_name in django

When listing available models of an app in the admin index page, Django always capitalizes the first letter of the model’s verbose_name_plural and use it as the model’s name.

Here’s the code from django.contrib.admin.sites.py:

model_dict = {
    'name': capfirst(model._meta.verbose_name_plural),
    'perms': perms,
}

But consider the following screenshot, I want to display “vCenters” instead of “VCenters”.

I can remove the capfirst, and explicitly capitalize other models’ verbose_name_plural to make it work.

But I have to change django’s source code and it doesn’t seem to be a bug of Django. Are there any better solutions?

Answer 1

It’s not that easy…

• Make a copy of the admin/index.html template to your
  template/admin/index.html
• Create your own template filter: lowerfirst_if_starts_with_v in your
  own templatetags/my_special_thing.py directory

@register.filter(is_safe=True)
@stringfilter
def lowerfirst_if_starts_with_v(value):
    """Lowercase the first character of the value."""
    return value and value[0] =='v' and value[0].lower() + value[1:]

• Load it in the index.html

{%load my_special_thing%}

• Apply it to index.html on line 23

<th scope="row"><a href="{{ model.admin_url }}"> \
{{ model.name|lowerfirst_if_starts_with_v }}</a></th>

And done.