Top 5 Django Admin Customization Packages to Supercharge Your Dashboard!

Photo by Luke Chesser on Unsplash

Django’s built-in admin panel is one of its most powerful features, but let’s be honest — it looks simple and has limited functionality out of the box. If you want to make the Django admin more user-friendly, visually appealing, and feature-rich, then these top 5 Django admin customization packages will transform your admin dashboard into a powerful and modern interface!

1. Django-Jazzmin — A Beautiful UI for Django Admin

source

Jazzmin Gives the Django admin a modern, sleek, and responsive UI. Fully customizable colors, layouts, branding and themes. It Supports dark mode for better accessibility and works seamlessly with Django Rest Framework (DRF).

GitHub: https://github.com/farridav/django-jazzmin

Installation

pip install django-jazzmin

Example

Add jazzmin to your INSTALLED_APPS before django.contrib.admin, and Voila!

# settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'jazzmin',
    'django.contrib.admin',
]

To configure the general behaviour of jazzmin, you can use JAZZMIN_SETTINGS within your django settings, below is a full example, with some of the more complex items explained below that.

# settings.py
JAZZMIN_SETTINGS = {
    # title of the window (Will default to current_admin_site.site_title if absent or None)
    "site_title": "Library Admin",

    # Title on the login screen (19 chars max) (defaults to current_admin_site.site_header if absent or None)
    "site_header": "Library",

    # Title on the brand (19 chars max) (defaults to current_admin_site.site_header if absent or None)
    "site_brand": "Library",

    # Logo to use for your site, must be present in static files, used for brand on top left…