How to display comments in Django Admin?

Question

I'm using django.contrib.comments for allowing users to comment on a blog. How is it possible to make the comments display on the Django Admin /admin/comments/comment/ and make them clickable for editing?

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The comments can be accessed via /admin/comments/comment/comment_id/ and edited without problems.

Any ideas how to get that solved?

Answer 1

Looking at django.contrib.comments.admin, it should be already visible in your admin panel, provided you added 'django.contrib.comments' to INSTALLED_APPS.

EDIT:

Second look at admin.py from Comments app revelaed that CommentsAdmin.list_display doesn't contain the comment itself. So I would either inherit from that CommentsAdmin, override list_display and then unregister and re-register Comment with MyNewCommentsAdmin - or I would just monkey-patch CommentsAdmin. Whichever works.

Answer 2

Thank you Tomasz, The problem was 'content_type' in list_display, which resulted in nothing at all displayed. Removing it from MyCommentsAdmin resolved the problem:

app/admin.py:

class MyCommentsAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    fieldsets = (
        (_('Content'),
           {'fields': ('user', 'user_name', 'user_email', 'user_url', 'comment')}
        ),
        (_('Metadata'),
           {'fields': ('submit_date', 'ip_address', 'is_public', 'is_removed')}
        ),
     )

    list_display = ('name', 'ip_address', 'submit_date', 'is_public', 'is_removed')
    list_filter = ('submit_date', 'site', 'is_public', 'is_removed')
    date_hierarchy = 'submit_date'
    ordering = ('-submit_date',)
    raw_id_fields = ('user',)
    search_fields = ('comment', 'user__username', 'user_name', 'user_email', 'user_url', 'ip_address')

admin.site.unregister(Comment)
admin.site.register(Comment, MyCommentsAdmin)

urls.py:

from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

import app.admin

Answer 3

add to answer Meilo:

if you use standard comment's framework (like: #in url.py

url(r'^comments/', include('django.contrib.comments.urls')),

you wish overwrite behavior comments model, you need import

#apps.admin.py

from django.contrib.comments.models import Comment