How to Build a Django-Unfold Admin Dashboard with Custom Models, Filters, Actions, and KPIs
In this tutorial, we build an advanced Django-Unfold admin dashboard. We start by installing Django, Django-Unfold, and the required dependencies, then we create a fresh Django project with a shop application. We configure Unfold with a modern admin theme, custom sidebar navigation, dashboard callbacks, product badges, tabs, filters, actions, and a custom admin homepage. We also define realistic e-commerce models such as categories, products, customers, orders, and order items, seed the database with sample data, and launch the Django server through Colab’s proxy so we can access the admin panel from the browser. Copy Code Copied Use a different Browser import os, sys, shutil, subprocess, time, signal, urllib.request, urllib.error from pathlib import Path print(" Installing django + django-unfold ...") subprocess.run([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", "-q", "django>=5.0,<5.2", "django-u...
