Admin app to override and extend the default Django admin

1. Install syferadmin pip install -e git+ssh://[email protected]/sfroth/django-syferadmin.git#egg=syferadmin
2. Make sure the following items are in your INSTALLED_APPS. syferadmin must come before django.contrib.admin
   • django.contrib.auth
   • django.contrib.contenttypes
   • django.contrib.sessions
   • django.contrib.sites
   • django.contrib.messages
   • django.contrib.staticfiles
   • mptt
   • syferadmin
   • django.contrib.admin
3. Set the auth model in settings.py AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'syferadmin.User'
4. Sync the database with python manage.py migrate syferadmin
5. Add the following to urls.py in your project
   • import syferadmin
   • syferadmin.autodiscover() Above the urlpatterns
   • url(r'^admin/', include('syferadmin.urls')), in urlpatterns
   • url(r'^admin/', include(syferadmin.site.urls)), in urlpatterns
6. Add the tmp dir for uploads in your repo root mkdir tmp/uploads
7. Add the following context processors before django request
   • syferadmin.context_processors.settings
   • syferadmin.context_processors.sections
8. Add the following middleware
   • syferadmin.middleware.threadlocal.ThreadLocalMiddleware
9. Add the following to settings.py IMAGEKIT_SPEC_CACHEFILE_NAMER = 'syferadmin.utils.source_name_as_path'