Django customise project template

Question

I am working on writing your first app, part 2 by Django Documentation and is currently stuck in Customizing your project’s templates.

I have copied the template admin/base_site.html from the default Django admin template directory into mysite/templates/admin, and make the changes to the base_site.html in the project file.

But there is a warning message and Polls Administration not shown.

?: (1_8.W001) The standalone TEMPLATE_* settings were deprecated in Django 1.8 and the TEMPLATES dictionary takes precedence. You must put the values of the following settings into your default TEMPLATES dict: TEMPLATE_DIRS.

code for settings.py

TEMPLATE_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')]

code for base_site.html

{% extends "admin/base.html" %}

{% block title %}{{ title }} | {{ site_title|default:_('Django site admin') }}{% endblock %}

{% block branding %}
<h1 id="site-name"><a href="{% url 'admin:index' %}">Polls Administration</a></h1>
{% endblock %}

{% block nav-global %}{% endblock %}

I have posted on github repo for further reference.

Answer 1

You appear to be working with Django 1.8 while reading the Django 1.7 tutorial. The 1.8 tutorial is here The depreciation warning anyway isn't something to worry about. It just seems that your admin template is not in the right place.

When overriding templates the Django Debug Toolbar is useful to have because it shows exactly what templates are being used. However, it's not essential.