[Improvement] Easier way to overwite the admin welcome message

[Jeff Kowalczyk <jtk@…>]

To change the prominent visual welcome in admin/base.html div user-tools, one must copy the entire admin/base.html template and modify just one line. A block containing this welcome i.e. block userwelcome would be useful for customization.

[Marc Garcia]

I agree on that, but according to 1.0 policy I think that it will be postponed after Django 1.0 is released.

Changing summary to clarify that this is an improvement.

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Milestone post-1.0 deleted

[Vlada Macek]

I second this. There are languages that use different form for vocative, thus "Welcome, Vlada" is incorrect. I think this form could fit to the majority:

    {% trans 'User: ' %}
    {% if user.first_name %}<strong>{{ user.first_name }} {{ user.last_name }}</strong>
    {% else %}{{ user.username }}{% endif %}.

It does not matter how to reach it, but currently AFAIK the only way is to override entire admin/base.html, which is complex.

If this applies to your language to, please vote for this.

[Tay Ray Chuan]

I'll attach a patch to make it possible to override the default welcome message.

Thus, one could do:

{% extends '/path/to/default/admin/templates/admin/base.html' %}

{% block welcome-msg %}
<strong>{% firstof user.first_name user.username %}</strong>, {% trans 'welcome!' %}
{% endblock %}

That said, I'm not against the "re-phrasing" of the message.

[Tay Ray Chuan]

See comment 6.

[Kamu]

Changing to unreviewed as there seems to be no comment by others.

[Russell Keith-Magee]

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[Tim Graham <timograham@…>]

In 2bc51438664b5ffbbd1430b4f9f3307f18b2b9db:

Fixed #7467 -- Added a template block to override the admin welcome message.

Thanks Jeff Kowalczyk for the suggestion and rctay for the patch.