django-modeladmin-reorder

Custom ordering for the apps and models in the admin app. You can also rename, cross link or exclude models from the app list.

Features

• Reorder apps in admin index - this will allow you to position most used apps in top of the page, instead of listing apps alphabetically. e.g. sites app before the auth app
• Rename app labels easily for third party apps without having to modify the source code. e.g. rename auth app to Authorisation for the django admin app.
• Split large apps into smaller groups of models.
• Reorder models within an app. e.g. auth.User model before the auth.Group model.
• Exclude any of the models from the app list. e.g. Exclude auth.Group from the app list. Please note this only excludes the model from the app list and it doesn't protect it from access via url.
• Cross link models from multiple apps. e.g. Add sites.Site model to the auth app.
• Rename individual models in the app list. e.g. rename auth.User from User to Staff

Documentation

The full documentation is at https://django-modeladmin-reorder.readthedocs.org.

Install

Install django-modeladmin-reorder:

pip install django-modeladmin-reorder

Configuration

1. Add admin_reorder to INSTALLED_APPS:

   INSTALLED_APPS = (
       ...
       'admin_reorder',
       ...
   )

2. Add the ModelAdminReorder to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES:

   MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
       ...
       'admin_reorder.middleware.ModelAdminReorder',
       ...
   )

3. Add the setting ADMIN_REORDER to your settings.py:

   ADMIN_REORDER = (
       # Keep original label and models
       'sites',
   
       # Rename app
       {'app': 'auth', 'label': 'Authorisation'},
   
       # Reorder app models
       {'app': 'auth', 'models': ('auth.User', 'auth.Group')},
   
       # Exclude models
       {'app': 'auth', 'models': ('auth.User', )},
   
       # Cross-linked models
       {'app': 'auth', 'models': ('auth.User', 'sites.Site')},
   
       # models with custom name
       {'app': 'auth', 'models': (
           'auth.Group',
           {'model': 'auth.User', 'label': 'Staff'},
       )},
   )

If our project has multiple admin sites:

1. Add admin_reorder to INSTALLED_APPS:

   INSTALLED_APPS = (
       ...
       'admin_reorder',
       ...
   )

2. Create your own middleware inherited from ModelAdminReorderMiddlewareMixin, define settings_variable_name and methods get_admin_site and get_admin_site_url_names

from admin_reorder.middleware import ModelAdminReorderMiddlewareMixin
from PROJECT_NAME.admin import short_admin_site

class ReorderShortAdminSiteMiddleware(ModelAdminReorderMiddlewareMixin):
    settings_variable_name = 'SHORT_ADMIN_REORDER'

    def get_admin_site(self):
        return short_admin_site

    def get_admin_site_url_names(self):
        names = super().get_admin_site_url_names()
        names.append('short_admin_index')
        return names

3. Add the ReorderShortAdminSiteMiddleware to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES:

   MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
       ...
       'PROJECT_NAME.middleware.ReorderShortAdminSiteMiddleware',
       ...
   )