Creating an admin user

First we’ll need to create a user who can login to the admin site. Run the following command:

$ python manage.py createsuperuser 

 

Enter your desired username and press enter.

Username: admin

You will then be prompted for your desired email address:

Email address: admin@example.com

The final step is to enter your password. You will be asked to enter your password twice, the second time as a confirmation of the first.

Password: **********
Password (again): *********
Superuser created successfully.

Start the development server

The Django admin site is activated by default. Let’s start the development server and explore it.

If the server is not running start it like so:

$ python manage.py runserver

Now, open a Web browser and go to “/admin/” on your local domain – e.g.,

http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/.

 You should see the admin’s login screen:

Make the poll app modifiable in the admin

But where’s our poll app? It’s not displayed on the admin index page.
Just one thing to do: we need to tell the admin that Question objects have an admin interface. To do this, open the polls/admin.py file, and edit it to look like this:

polls/admin.py

from django.contrib import admin

from .models import Question

admin.site.register(Question)