Django Prismriver: A light but cool Django admin Theme

Prismriver is another django-admin theme aiming to be good looking while maintaining maximum compatibility with as many django packages as possible, with zero/minimal dependencies.

Aside from that it/will try to be modular with dashboard plugins (not yet implemented) so you can configure it easily the way you prefer.

How it looks

Requirements

• Django 1.4
• 5 mins to configure it.

Installation

• Put the prismriver directory into your Pythonpath/project folder or install it using pip using:
  • pip install django-prismriver

• In settings.py make sure that:

  • You have staticfiles configured correctly.
  • You look for templates on a '/templates/' directory.

  • You have the following template context processors.

    TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = ( 'django.core.context_processors.request', 'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth', )

  • On INSTALLED_APPS make sure you add the 'prismriver' app before django.contrib.admin. For example like this:

    INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'prismriver', 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'django.contrib.admin', )

  • Run your server and it works!

  • Now there are some extended settings if you want to customize the sidebar.

    • CUSTOM_MENU: Allows you to enable the custom menu. By default this is false.

    • SIDEBAR_APP_MENU: When the previous option is true, it allows you to create "Folders/Menus" contontaining various models. For example imagine you want to unify the auth and sites apps in one menu with all it's options inside. Well, we do the following:

      SIDEBAR_APP_MENU = [ {"name": "Users and Settings", "items": ["auth", "prismriver", "sites"], "icon": "users.png", "big_icon": "users_big.png", "description": "Manage everything about the users here", }, ]

    • SIDEBAR_LAST_ACTIONS: Shows the last actions widget thing. By default this is true

    • DEFAULT_LABELS If don't want custom menu but you want to use different labels/icons for your applications you can configure them as following:

      DEFAULT_LABELS = {

      "auth/": ["Users and Groups", "users.png", "users_big.png","Manage the application users or groups permissions"],

      "sites/": ["Site management", "web.png", "web_big.png", "Manages the sites application"]}

    The "web_big.png" field is not used, it will be removed on the next updates (old version stuff)

    • For more details you can see prismriver/settings.py