Creating a Base ModelAdmin for a Project

Using Django
1

Is it common practice to create a “base” MyModelAdmin for a project and have all your ModelAdmin classes inherit from it, like this:

class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_max_show_all = 500
    list_per_page = 25

    class Media:
        js = (
            settings.STATIC_URL + 'js/admin.js'
        )    
        css = {
             'all': (settings.STATIC_URL + 'css/admin.css',)
        }

@admin.register(Book)
class BookAdmin(MyModelAdmin):
    model = Book
    ...

@admin.register(Author)
class AuthorAdmin(MyModelAdmin):
    model = Author
    ...

# This also inherits from django.contrib.auth.admin.UserAdmin
@admin.register(CustomUser)
class CustomUserAdmin(MyModelAdmin, UserAdmin):
    model = CustomUser
    ...

This makes a lot of sense to me, but I haven’t seen any examples of it anywhere.

2

Yes, it’s a great idea that I tend to use. Same with Model, Form, and other classes you might use subclasses of frequently.

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