id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
18617	Pointing out a template overriding pitfall	Daniele Procida	nobody	"I spent a lot of time trying to work out why my own base_site.html template wasn't overriding Django's.

Eventually I realised that it was because django.contrib.admin was listed in INSTALLED_APPLICATIONS before my own application, and so its base_site.html won the race to be chosen.

I'm a slow learner, so I went through the same thing all over again today, a year or more later...

To help people like me, I have added a comment in the settings.py of the project template, and a note in the docs, in a pull request at https://github.com/django/django/pull/185

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