Django Admin Theme Roundup 2025

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The Django admin is such an integral part of Django, but I wanted to highlight a few of the many awesome third-party admin themes. This blog post rounds up the 10 best packages I could find with some highlights about each and a screenshot so you can get a sense of what is included in the tin.

How can the Django project encourage more theming of the admin going forward?

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Thanks for writing this @adamghill ! It’s a great showcase.

There’s a short theming section in the docs:

I think it could do with some improvements:

  1. Show an external CSS file rather than an inline one. That’s more realistic for changes beyond swapping a few colours.
  2. Show defining colours for dark mode as well as light. The “Dark mode variables” paragraph doesn’t really explain much. I would prefer to see the CSS I need.

Ideally, all the CSS variables would be documented, though I can see that would be tiresome.

Another idea would be a shared demo project, with all widget types exposed, so theme tinkerers don’t need to set that up for themselves.

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It can be said that the success of Django is also greatly contributed by the available admin page. Improving or upgrading it to make it better is a good idea. I am also using django in many projects, and sometimes changing the admin theme is required. but sometimes it is quite difficult to customize at a deeper level

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