How does one change the ‘Django administration’ text in the django admin header?

It doesn’t seem to be covered in the “Customizing the admin” documentation.

Update: If you are using Django 1.7+, see the answer below.

Original answer from 2011: You need to create your own admin base_site.html template to do this. The easiest way is to create the file:

/<projectdir>/templates/admin/base_site.html

This should be a copy of the original base_site.html, except putting in your custom title:

{% block branding %}
<h1 id="site-name">{% trans 'my cool admin console' %}</h1>
{% endblock %}

For this to work, you need to have the correct settings for your project, namely in settings.py:

• Make sure /projectdir/templates/ is added into TEMPLATE_DIRS.
• Make sure django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader is added into TEMPLATE_LOADERS.

See docs for more information on settings.py.

As of Django 1.7 you don’t need to override templates. You can now implement site_header, site_title, and index_title attributes on a custom AdminSite in order to easily change the admin site’s page title and header text. Create an AdminSite subclass and hook your instance into your URLconf:

admin.py:

from django.contrib.admin import AdminSite
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy

class MyAdminSite(AdminSite):
    # Text to put at the end of each page's <title>.
    site_title = ugettext_lazy('My site admin')

    # Text to put in each page's <h1> (and above login form).
    site_header = ugettext_lazy('My administration')

    # Text to put at the top of the admin index page.
    index_title = ugettext_lazy('Site administration')

admin_site = MyAdminSite()

urls.py:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include
from myproject.admin import admin_site

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    (r'^myadmin/', include(admin_site.urls)),
)

Update: As pointed out by oxfn you can simply set the site_header in your urls.py or admin.py directly without subclassing AdminSite:

admin.site.site_header = 'My administration'

There is an easy way to set admin site header – assign it to current admin instance in urls.py like this

admin.site.site_header = 'My admin'

Or one can implement some header-building magic in separate method

admin.site.site_header = get_admin_header()

Thus, in simple cases there’s no need to subclass AdminSite

In urls.py you can override the 3 most important variables:

from django.contrib import admin

admin.site.site_header = 'My project'                    # default: "Django Administration"
admin.site.index_title = 'Features area'                 # default: "Site administration"
admin.site.site_title = 'HTML title from adminsitration' # default: "Django site admin"

Reference: Django documentation on these attributes.

A simple complete solution in Django 1.8.3 based on answers in this question.

In settings.py add:

ADMIN_SITE_HEADER = "My shiny new administration"

In urls.py add:

from django.conf import settings
admin.site.site_header = settings.ADMIN_SITE_HEADER

The easiest way of doing it make sure you have

from django.contrib import admin

and then just add these at bottom of url.py of you main application

admin.site.site_title = "Your App Title"
admin.site.site_header = "Your App Admin" 

For Django 2.1.1 add following lines to urls.py

from django.contrib import admin

# Admin Site Config
admin.sites.AdminSite.site_header = 'My site admin header'
admin.sites.AdminSite.site_title = 'My site admin title'
admin.sites.AdminSite.index_title = 'My site admin index'

As you can see in the templates, the text is delivered via the localization framework (note the use of the trans template tag). You can make changes to the translation files to override the text without making your own copy of the templates.

1. mkdir locale

2. ./manage.py makemessages

3. Edit locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/django.po, adding these lines:

   msgid "Django site admin"
   msgstr "MySite site admin"
   
   msgid "Django administration"
   msgstr "MySite administration"
   

4. ./manage.py compilemessages

See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/i18n/localization/#message-files

admin.py:

from django.contrib.admin import AdminSite

AdminSite.site_title = ugettext_lazy('My Admin')

AdminSite.site_header = ugettext_lazy('My Administration')

AdminSite.index_title = ugettext_lazy('DATA BASE ADMINISTRATION')

First of all, you should add templates/admin/base_site.html to your project. This file can safely be overwritten since it’s a file that the Django devs have intended for the exact purpose of customizing your admin site a bit. Here’s an example of what to put in the file:

{% extends "admin/base.html" %}
{% load i18n %}

{% block title %}{{ title }} | {% trans 'Some Organisation' %}{% endblock %}

{% block branding %}
<style type="text/css">
  #header
  {
    /* your style here */
  }
</style>
<h1 id="site-name">{% trans 'Organisation Website' %}</h1>
{% endblock %}

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

This is common practice. But I noticed after this that I was still left with an annoying “Site Administration” on the main admin index page. And this string was not inside any of the templates, but rather set inside the admin view. Luckily it’s quite easy to change. Assuming your language is set to English, run the following commands from your project directory:

$ mkdir locale
$ ./manage.py makemessages -l en

Now open up the file locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/django.po and add two lines after the header information (the last two lines of this example)

"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2010-04-03 03:25+0200\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"

msgid "Site administration"
msgstr "Main administration index"

After this, remember to run the following command and reload your project’s server:

$ ./manage.py compilemessages

source: http://overtag.dk/wordpress/2010/04/changing-the-django-admin-site-title/

From Django 2.0 you can just add a single line in the url.py and change the name.

# url.py

from django.contrib import admin 
admin.site.site_header = "My Admin Central" # Add this

For older versions of Django. (<1.11 and earlier) you need to edit admin/base_site.html

Change this line

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

to

{% block title %}{{ title }} | {{ site_title|default:_('Your Site name Admin Central') }}{% endblock %}

You can check your django version by

django-admin --version

Just go to admin.py file and add this line in the file :

admin.site.site_header = "My Administration"

you do not need to change any template for this work you just need to update the settings.py of your project. Go to the bottom of the settings.py and define this.

admin.site.site_header = 'My Site Admin'

In this way you would be able to change the header of the of the Django admin. Moreover you can read more about Django Admin customization and settings on the following link.

Django Admin Documentation

You can use AdminSite.site_header to change that text. Here is the docs

There are two methods to do this:

1] By overriding base_site.html in django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/base_site.html: Following is the content of 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' %}">{{ site_header|default:_('Django administration') }}</a></h1>
{% endblock %}

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

Edit the site_title & site_header in the above code snippet. This method works but it is not recommendable since its a static change.

2] By adding following lines in urls.py of project’s directory:

admin.site.site_header = "AppHeader"
admin.site.site_title = "AppTitle"
admin.site.index_title = "IndexTitle"
admin.site.site_url = "Url for view site button"

This method is recommended one since we can change the site-header, site-title & index-title without editing base_site.html.

Since I only use admin interface in my app, I put this in the admin.py :

admin.site.site_header = 'My administration'

You just override the admin/base_site.html template (copy the template from django.contrib.admin.templates and put in your own admin template dir) and replace the branding block.