Skip to content

Conversation

@hugovk
Copy link
Member

@hugovk hugovk commented Jan 10, 2026

Description

  • I'd like the dark admin theme here, for those late night releases :)

I noticed there's a light/dark/auto theme button in the top right corner:

image

But no matter how many times I click it, it stays on light mode:

image image

Django does natively support dark mode, but we actually have a custom theme that doesn't support it: fabiocaccamo/django-admin-interface#129

This PR reverts back to the native theme.

This was originally changed in #2263 because:

psf staff spend a lot of time between us.pycon.org and python.org django admin this enables configuration of a different theme for python.org so its easier to differentiate. thanks to @swiencks for pointing out how easy to confuse they are.

I don't know what us.pycon.org looks like behind the scenes, but perhaps we could apply this other custom theme over there? Or stick some big logos at the top?

Other options involve custom CSS for the custom theme here, but that's a fair chunk of work and extra code to maintain, when it's already been done in Django itself.

Before

image

After

image image

@hugovk hugovk requested a review from ewdurbin as a code owner January 10, 2026 19:45
@hugovk hugovk added the admin Relates to Django Admin label Jan 10, 2026
@hugovk hugovk requested a review from JacobCoffee as a code owner January 10, 2026 19:45
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Labels

admin Relates to Django Admin

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

1 participant