django-admin-reorder

Easy way to order and rename models in the django admin page.

Features

• Ordering Models inside Categories (ex: model truck before model car)
• Ordering Categories (ex: app vehicules before app orders)
• Changing the Model Label (ex: renaming the CarPartType model to Types of Car parts )

Installation

(not published yet)

Install with pip

  pip install django-admin-reorder

Then in settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'admin-reorder',
    ...
)

Documentation

Renaming a model :

@admin.register(MyExampleModel)
class MyExampleModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    reorder_label = "Changed the model name"

    list_display = ('one', 'two')

Ordering a model in a category :

@admin.register(MyExampleModel)
class MyExampleModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    reorder_label = "Changed the model name"
    reorder_priority = 10

    list_display = ('one', 'two')

Supported Versions

Works on Django:

• 5.0
• 4.2

These are the only versions i tested, might work on more.

Roadmap

• Support listing a model more than once

Origin

When searching alternatives to django-modeladmin-reorder, i found this thread that gave me the idea of changing model names and order just by adding the data to the modeladmin.

FAQ

How does it work

The admin.AdminSite.get_app_list method is replaced for custom behaviour.