Django add start bootstrap-admin custom theme in your project

Hemanth S P
Django lions ✨
Published in
3 min readAug 30, 2020

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Django start bootstrap-admin example

Hi, In this article I am going to show you how to use startbootstrap admin theme in your project, so let's get started with the below steps

Steps are

  1. Create a Django project
  2. Download startbootstrap admin theme
  3. Create a static folder at the root level or app level
  4. Create a templates folder at the root level or app level
  5. Create a layout with the base template
  6. extends the base template and renders it
  7. Github link to this article base template ready to use

1. Create a Django project

if you have already created a project then you can skip this step. First, create virtual env

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate # to activate virtual env

create a Django project and name is django_awesome

django-admin startproject django_awesome
# install django
pip install django
# run server
python manage.py runserver

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