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 " Uncategorized closed Documentation 1.4 Normal fixed Accepted 1 0 0 0 0 0