Django (1.10) override AdminSite

Question

I\'ve tried to override AdminSite class with my own custom class. I followed tutorial from django\'s documentation: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/ref/contrib/admin

Answer 1

I faced a similar problem. I used Django 2.1 and the hook from the comments above didn't work for me. And also I was not able to import GroupAdmin and UserAdmin, like so

from django.contrib.auth.models import Group, User
from django.contrib.auth.admin import GroupAdmin, UserAdmin

Importing GroupAdmin or UserAdmin broke the code for some reason. I was not able to define the exact reason.

So my workaround was (in project/urls.py):

from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib.admin import site
from project.admin import myadmin

myadmin._registry.update(site._registry)

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^admin/', myadmin.urls),
    ]

The idea here is to copy registered models from default admin site. Maybe it's not good to do so, but I could not find anything else working.