Django Admin - change header 'Django administration' text

Question

How does one change the \'Django administration\' text in the django admin header?

It doesn\'t seem to be covered in the \"Customizing the admin\" documentation.

Answer 1

There are two methods to do this:

1] By overriding base_site.html in django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/base_site.html: Following is the content of base_site.html:

{% extends "admin/base.html" %}

{% block title %}{{ title }} | {{ site_title|default:_('Django site admin') }}{% endblock %}

{% block branding %}
{{ site_header|default:_('Django administration') }}
{% endblock %}

{% block nav-global %}{% endblock %}

Edit the site_title & site_header in the above code snippet. This method works but it is not recommendable since its a static change.

2] By adding following lines in urls.py of project's directory:

admin.site.site_header = "AppHeader"
admin.site.site_title = "AppTitle"
admin.site.index_title = "IndexTitle"
admin.site.site_url = "Url for view site button"

This method is recommended one since we can change the site-header, site-title & index-title without editing base_site.html.