So you want to ruin your life by hacking the Django admin, hey?

admin_twiddling.md

• Want to pretend an object is a ModelAdmin? Check out the HaystackResultsAdmin
• Need to fake a changelist for using in the {% pagination %} template tag? FakeChangeListForPaginator
• Need to mount a ModelAdmin for a model that doesn't exist? Make an unmanaged model: HaystackResults
• Need to mount a second modeladmin for a model which has already been added? Use a proxy model. I actually don't have an app that does this, as far as I can grep.
• Need to change the way the admin looks without replacing a substantial number of the templates? thadminjones
• Want frontend editing using the admin to do so? Look upon the terrifying face of adminlinks
• Need to add parameters passed to the changelist without it throwing a redirect to ?e=1? AdminlinksChangeListMixin
  • want to dynamically apply that to a modeladmin? AdminlinksMixin.get_queryset
  • want single-field edit forms? Something like AdminlinksMixin.change_field_view maybe.
• Just need to know how to add a new view to your admin? MenuItemAdmin.get_urls and MenuItemAdmin. import_view
• Want your inlines to be able to cause filters to be added to the changelist? URLAdmin.get_list_filter
• Want your inlines to be able to add a representation of their data to a changelist by adding a column? URLAdmin.get_list_display and URLInline. get_urladmin_display_func
• Want a set of inlines to cause a bunch of checks in a middleware? churlish in general. Yes, really.
• Want to prevent slugs changing? PageAdmin.get_prepopulated_fields and PageAdmin.get_readonly_fields
• Need a fake inline? (with a fake formset, fake media and fake form ...) EditRegionInline and associated bits (EditRegionInlineFormSet etc)
• Want editable regions, generically attached to any ModelAdmin via an inline and a GFK? EditRegionAdmin and the rest of the app.