The default “delete selected” admin action in Django

Question

How can I remove or change the verbose name of the default admin action \"delete selected X item\" in the Django admin panel?

Answer 1

Not sure if this sort of monkey-patching is a good idea, but shoving this in one of my admin.py works for me:

from django.contrib.admin.actions import delete_selected
delete_selected.short_description = u'How\'s this for a name?'

This will change the verbose name for all your admin sites. If you want to change it just for one particular model's admin, I think you'll need to write a custom admin action.

Tested with Django version 1.1:

>>> import django
>>> django.VERSION
(1, 1, 0, 'beta', 1)