Can't replace Admin Title in part 7 of tutorial

Using Django Getting Started
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Hi,
I’m stuck at the part of the tutorial where I change the look of the admin screen. I’ve created the templates and admin folders in the project directory and copied in base_site.html. See picture below (I’m doing the tutorial in the Replit environment).

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I’ve then added BASE_DIR / “templates” to settings.

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [BASE_DIR / "templates"],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    },
]

In the copied base_site.html I’ve changed it as suggested:

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

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

{% block branding %}
<div id="site-name"><a href="{% url 'admin:index' %}">Polls Administration</a></div>
{% if user.is_anonymous %}
  {% include "admin/color_theme_toggle.html" %}
{% endif %}
{% endblock %}

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

But it still comes out with Django administration in the title of the admin page.
Its clearly not picking up the path to my new template.
Any ideas what I have mucked up, things have been going pretty well since part 2 and I’m beginning to get my head round it all so some help appreciated!

2

It looks like you have this new templates directory in the “inner” project directory, and not the outer directory. (The image makes it really hard to tell, so I can’t be sure.)

This project-level templates directory needs to be in the “outer” project directory, the directory containing the manage.py file - the parent directory of the polls app and the “inner” project directory that contains the settings.py file.

3

place the admin/base_site.html on polls/templates… do not create another templates folder