Django: Overriding AND extending an app template

Question

If you want to override a template coming with an app in django (in app/templates/app/) you create a template of the same name in another directory, which the template loade

Answer 1

I think the answer from this related question is pertinent; currently, the best solution seems to be to use a custom template loader from the django-apptemplates package on PyPI, so you can just use pip to install it (e.g. pip install django-apptemplates).

The template loader allows you to extend a template in a specific app; for example, to extend the index page of the admin inteface, you would add

'apptemplates.Loader',

to your TEMPLATE_LOADERS list in settings.py, and use

{% extends "admin:admin/index.html" %}

in your templates.