A web-based administrative backend is a standard feature of modern websites. The administrative interface, or admin for short, allows trusted site administrators to create, edit and publish content, manage site users, and perform other administrative tasks.

Django comes with a built-in admin interface. With Django’s admin you can authenticate users, display and handle forms, and validate input; all automatically. Django also provides a convenient interface to manage model data.

In this chapter, we will explore the basics of the Django admin—create a superuser login, register models with the admin, customize how our models are viewed in the admin, add and edit model data, and learn how to manage users in the admin.