django-wpadmin 0.1.1

Features

• Optional fixed (in CSS positioning terms) top menu with branding, user options (change password, logout, gravatar) and any other menu items

• Optional fully configurable left menu with nice WordPress style

• Left menu can be pinned (fixed CSS position) or unpinned and collapsed or expanded

• Awesome Font Awesome icons supported in both menus

• Multiple AdminSite’s support with possibility to have different menus, colors and title for each one

• Supports Django 1.3.x, 1.4.x, 1.5.x

TODO

• WordPress look and feel for tables, inputs, buttons

• TinyMCE integration with WordPress theme

• django-filebrowser integration

• Bookmarks support

Demo

Try sample_project here or download django-wpadmin and run it on your own machine. sample_project contains SQLite database file with prepopulated sample data.

Installation

• Install django-wpadmin from PyPi:

  pip install django-wpadmin

• Or from Github:

  pip install -e git+https://github.com/barszczmm/django-wpadmin.git#egg=django-wpadmin

• Add to your INSTALLED_APPS before django.contrib.admin:

  INSTALLED_APPS = (
      # Django WP Admin must be before django.contrib.admin
      'wpadmin',
      'wpadmin.menu',
      'wpadmin.dashboard',
  )

• Copy one of the files from django-wpadmin/wpadmin/menu/templates/admin/ (there’s one file for each supported Django version) into your templates/admin/ folder and rename copied file to base.html (you can also create symbolic link).

• Add django.core.context_processors.request to TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS setting.

Basic configuration

Add to settings.py:

WPADMIN = {
    'admin': {
        'menu': {
            'top': 'wpadmin.menu.menus.TopMenu',
            'left': 'wpadmin.menu.menus.LeftMenu',
        }
    },
}

Advanced configuration

Please take a look at the code in sample_project.

This app takes a lot of ideas and a lot of code from django-admin-tools app, so it is also good idea to read django-admin-tools docs.

Credits

Python code is heavily based on django-admin-tools app. WordPress look and feel is of course inspired by WordPress.