wagtail/docs/advanced_topics/customisation/admin_templates.md

Customising admin templates

In your projects with Wagtail, you may wish to replace elements such as the Wagtail logo within the admin interface with your own branding. This can be done through Django's template inheritance mechanism.

You need to create a templates/wagtailadmin/ folder within one of your apps - this may be an existing one, or a new one created for this purpose, for example, dashboard. This app must be registered in INSTALLED_APPS before wagtail.admin:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    # ...

    'dashboard',

    'wagtail',
    'wagtail.admin',

    # ...
)

(custom_branding)=

Custom branding

The template blocks that are available to customise the branding in the admin interface are as follows:

branding_logo

To replace the default logo, create a template file dashboard/templates/wagtailadmin/base.html that overrides the block branding_logo:

{% extends "wagtailadmin/base.html" %}
{% load static %}

{% block branding_logo %}
    <img src="{% static 'images/custom-logo.svg' %}" alt="Custom Project" width="80" />
{% endblock %}

The logo also appears on the admin 404 error page; to replace it there too, create a template file dashboard/templates/wagtailadmin/404.html that overrides the branding_logo block.

The logo also appears on the wagtail userbar; to replace it there too, create a template file dashboard/templates/wagtailadmin/userbar/base.html that overwrites the branding_logo block.

branding_favicon

To replace the favicon displayed when viewing admin pages, create a template file dashboard/templates/wagtailadmin/admin_base.html that overrides the block branding_favicon:

{% extends "wagtailadmin/admin_base.html" %}
{% load static %}

{% block branding_favicon %}
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="{% static 'images/favicon.ico' %}" />
{% endblock %}

branding_title

To replace the title prefix (which is 'Wagtail' by default), create a template file dashboard/templates/wagtailadmin/admin_base.html that overrides the block branding_title:

{% extends "wagtailadmin/admin_base.html" %}

{% block branding_title %}Frank's CMS{% endblock %}

branding_login

To replace the login message, create a template file dashboard/templates/wagtailadmin/login.html that overrides the block branding_login:

{% extends "wagtailadmin/login.html" %}

{% block branding_login %}Sign in to Frank's Site{% endblock %}

branding_welcome

To replace the welcome message on the dashboard, create a template file dashboard/templates/wagtailadmin/home.html that overrides the block branding_welcome:

{% extends "wagtailadmin/home.html" %}

{% block branding_welcome %}Welcome to Frank's Site{% endblock %}

(custom_user_interface_fonts)=

Custom user interface fonts

To customise the font families used in the admin user interface, inject a CSS file using the hook and override the variables within the :root selector:

:root {
    --w-font-sans: Papyrus;
    --w-font-mono: Courier;
}

(custom_user_interface_colours)=

Custom user interface colours

The default Wagtail colours conform to the WCAG2.1 AA level colour contrast requirements. When customising the admin colours you should test the contrast using tools like [Axe](https://www.deque.com/axe/browser-extensions/).

To customise the colours used in the admin user interface, inject a CSS file using the hook and set the desired variables within the :root selector. There are two ways to customisation options: either set each colour separately (for example --w-color-primary: #2E1F5E;); or separately set HSL (--w-color-primary-hue, --w-color-primary-saturation, --w-color-primary-lightness) variables so all shades are customised at once. For example, setting --w-color-secondary-hue: 180; will customise all of the secondary shades at once.

Make sure to test any customisations against our Contrast Grid. Try out your own customisations with this interactive style editor:

	Variable	Usage
	--w-color-black	Shadows only
	--w-color-grey-600	Body copy, user content
	--w-color-grey-400	Help text, placeholders, meta text, neutral state indicators
	--w-color-grey-200	Dividers, button borders
	--w-color-grey-150	Field borders
	--w-color-grey-100	Dividers, panel borders
	--w-color-grey-50	Background for panels, row highlights
	--w-color-white	Page backgrounds, Panels, Button text
	--w-color-primary	Wagtail branding, Panels, Headings, Buttons, Labels
	--w-color-primary-200	Accent for elements used in conjunction with primary colour in sidebar
	--w-color-secondary	Primary buttons, action links
	--w-color-secondary-600	Hover states for two-tone buttons
	--w-color-secondary-400	Two-tone buttons, hover states
	--w-color-secondary-100	UI element highlights over dark backgrounds
	--w-color-secondary-75	UI element highlights over dark text
	--w-color-secondary-50	Button backgrounds, highlighted fields background
	--w-color-info-100	Background and icons for information messages
	--w-color-info-50	Background only, for information messages
	--w-color-positive-100	Positive states
	--w-color-positive-50	Background only, for positive states
	--w-color-warning-100	Background and icons for potentially dangerous states
	--w-color-warning-50	Background only, for potentially dangerous states
	--w-color-critical-200	Dangerous actions or states (over light background), errors
	--w-color-critical-100	Dangerous actions or states (over dark background)
	--w-color-critical-50	Background only, for dangerous states

Specifying a site or page in the branding

The admin interface has a number of variables available to the renderer context that can be used to customise the branding in the admin page. These can be useful for customising the dashboard on a multitenanted Wagtail installation:

root_page

Returns the highest explorable page object for the currently logged in user. If the user has no explore rights, this will default to None.

root_site

Returns the name on the site record for the above root page.

site_name

Returns the value of root_site, unless it evaluates to None. In that case, it will return the value of settings.WAGTAIL_SITE_NAME.

To use these variables, create a template file dashboard/templates/wagtailadmin/home.html, just as if you were overriding one of the template blocks in the dashboard, and use them as you would any other Django template variable:

{% extends "wagtailadmin/home.html" %}

{% block branding_welcome %}Welcome to the Admin Homepage for {{ root_site }}{% endblock %}

Extending the login form

To add extra controls to the login form, create a template file dashboard/templates/wagtailadmin/login.html.

above_login and below_login

To add content above or below the login form, override these blocks:

{% extends "wagtailadmin/login.html" %}

{% block above_login %} If you are not Frank you should not be here! {% endblock %}

fields

To add extra fields to the login form, override the fields block. You will need to add {{ block.super }} somewhere in your block to include the username and password fields:

{% extends "wagtailadmin/login.html" %}

{% block fields %}
    {{ block.super }}
    <li>
        <div>
            <label for="id_two-factor-auth">Two factor auth token</label>
            <input type="text" name="two-factor-auth" id="id_two-factor-auth">
        </div>
    </li>
{% endblock %}

submit_buttons

To add extra buttons to the login form, override the submit_buttons block. You will need to add {{ block.super }} somewhere in your block to include the sign in button:

{% extends "wagtailadmin/login.html" %}

{% block submit_buttons %}
    {{ block.super }}
    <a href="{% url 'signup' %}"><button type="button" class="button">{% trans 'Sign up' %}</button></a>
{% endblock %}

login_form

To completely customise the login form, override the login_form block. This block wraps the whole contents of the <form> element:

{% extends "wagtailadmin/login.html" %}

{% block login_form %}
    <p>Some extra form content</p>
    {{ block.super }}
{% endblock %}

(extending_clientside_components)=

Extending client-side components

Some of Wagtail’s admin interface is written as client-side JavaScript with React. In order to customise or extend those components, you may need to use React too, as well as other related libraries. To make this easier, Wagtail exposes its React-related dependencies as global variables within the admin. Here are the available packages:

// 'focus-trap-react'
window.FocusTrapReact;
// 'react'
window.React;
// 'react-dom'
window.ReactDOM;
// 'react-transition-group/CSSTransitionGroup'
window.CSSTransitionGroup;

Wagtail also exposes some of its own React components. You can reuse:

window.wagtail.components.Icon;
window.wagtail.components.Portal;

Pages containing rich text editors also have access to:

// 'draft-js'
window.DraftJS;
// 'draftail'
window.Draftail;

// Wagtail’s Draftail-related APIs and components.
window.draftail;
window.draftail.DraftUtils;
window.draftail.ModalWorkflowSource;
window.draftail.ImageModalWorkflowSource;
window.draftail.EmbedModalWorkflowSource;
window.draftail.LinkModalWorkflowSource;
window.draftail.DocumentModalWorkflowSource;
window.draftail.Tooltip;
window.draftail.TooltipEntity;