django auth: password change template customization

Question

I want to theme django auth's password change templates to my site. The problem is that django is seeing the django/contrib/admin/templates/registration/ versions of the templates instead of my beautifully crafted myapp/template/registration/password*.html .

This poster was told to fiddle with app order in settings.py, which is a bit fragile to my taste. I think this poster may have gotten a reasonable answer, but if so, I haven't quite understood it yet.

So what I did was to add a bunch of non-DRY cruft to my urls.py file, copied from auth_urls.py :

# Provide explicit templates where I've provided them, shadowing the URL's
# that registration.backends.defaults.urls will provide.
url(r'^accounts/password/change/$',
    auth_views.password_change,
    {'post_change_redirect': reverse_lazy('auth_password_change_done'),
     'template_name': 'registration/password/change_form.html' },
    name='auth_password_change'),
# ...
url(r'^accounts/', include('registration.backends.default.urls')),

This works, but saddens me in its repetition. Surely django encourages something cleaner. Any pointers?

(Fwiw, django 1.7 and python 3.4.2.)

Answer 1

Put this template into your project's templates dir and add the following code to the settings.py .

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'),
)

By default django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader is placed before django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader in TEMPLATE_LOADERS so project's templates directory has precedence over app's templates .