Customize look of sidebar and frontpage

evennia/web/admin/urls.py

@@ -18,7 +18,10 @@ urlpatterns = [
     url(r"/doc/", include("django.contrib.admindocs.urls")),
 ]
 
+admin.site.site_header = "Evennia web admin"
+
 if settings.EVENNIA_ADMIN:
+
     urlpatterns += [
         # Our override for the admin.
         url("^/$", frontpage.evennia_admin, name="evennia_admin"),

evennia/web/templates/admin/app_list.html

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+{% load i18n %}
+
+{% if app_list %}
+  <table>
+  {% for app in app_list %}
+    <div class="app-{{ app.app_label }} module{% if app.app_url in request.path %} current-app{% endif %}">
+        <!--caption>
+          <a href="{{ app.app_url }}" class="section" title="{% blocktranslate with name=app.name %}Models in the {{ name }} application{% endblocktranslate %}">{{ app.name }}</a>
+        </caption-->
+        {% for model in app.models %}
+          <tr class="model-{{ model.object_name|lower }}{% if model.admin_url in request.path %} current-model{% endif %}">
+            {% if model.admin_url %}
+              <th scope="row"><a href="{{ model.admin_url }}"{% if model.admin_url in request.path %} aria-current="page"{% endif %}>{{ model.name }}</a></th>
+            {% else %}
+              <th scope="row">{{ model.name }}</th>
+            {% endif %}
+
+            {% if model.add_url %}
+              <td><a href="{{ model.add_url }}" class="addlink">{% translate 'Add' %}</a></td>
+            {% else %}
+              <td></td>
+            {% endif %}
+
+            {% if model.admin_url and show_changelinks %}
+              {% if model.view_only %}
+                <td><a href="{{ model.admin_url }}" class="viewlink">{% translate 'View' %}</a></td>
+              {% else %}
+                <td><a href="{{ model.admin_url }}" class="changelink">{% translate 'Change' %}</a></td>
+              {% endif %}
+            {% elif show_changelinks %}
+              <td></td>
+            {% endif %}
+          </tr>
+        {% endfor %}
+    </div>
+  {% endfor %}
+  </table>
+{% else %}
+  <p>{% translate 'You don’t have permission to view or edit anything.' %}</p>
+{% endif %}

evennia/web/templates/admin/frontpage.html

@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
       <div class="card-body">
         <h1 class="card-title">Admin</h1>
         <p class="card-text">
-          The Evennia admin page allows for modifying database entities using a
-          graphical interface.
+          The Evennia admin allows for modifying database entities using a
+          graphical interface. This bypasses in-game locks and permissions.
         </p>
         <hr />
 
@@ -37,17 +37,26 @@
 
         <p class="card-text">
           <h4><a href="{% url "admin:comms_channeldb_changelist" %}">Channels</a></h4>
-          Channels are used to redirect and organize player communications.
+          Channels are used to redirect and organize player in-game communications.
         </p>
 
         <p class="card-text">
           <h4><a href="{% url "admin:help_helpentry_changelist" %}">Help Topics</a></h4>
-          Extend the automatic command-help with custom help topics.
+          Add help database help-entries here. Note that command-auto-help and
+          file-based help entries (added via FILEHELP_MODULES) are not visible
+          here.
+        </p>
+
+        <p class="card-text">
+          <h4><a href="{% url "admin:typeclasses_tag_changelist" %}">Tags</a></h4>
+          Tags are used to group, organize and quickly find other types of
+          objects. A given tag is 'shared' between any number of entities
+          making them very efficient.
         </p>
 
         <hr />
 
-        <h3>Extra website pages</h3>
+        <h3>Website-only</h3>
 
         <p class="card-text">
         <h4><a href="{% url "admin:sites_site_changelist" %}">Sites (domains)</a></h4>
@@ -65,13 +74,20 @@
           code. Select the domain specified by <strong>SITE_ID</strong> above.
         </p>
 
+        <p class="card-text">
+        <h4><a href="{% url "admin:auth_group_changelist" %}">Groups</a></h4>
+          These are permission groups used only by the admin. You usually don't
+          need to modify these.
+        </p>
+
         <hr />
 
         <p class="card-text">
-          If you are an advanced user who needs access to the raw Django Admin,
-          it is available <a href="{% url "django_admin" %}">here</a>.  You can
-          make this the default by changing <code>EVENNIA_ADMIN</code> to
-          <code>False</code> in <code>settings.py</code> and reload.
+          When you click on any link above you'll end up in the full
+          django-based admin panel. You can also get to it  <a href="{% url
+          "django_admin" %}">here</a>.  You can make this the default by
+          changing <code>EVENNIA_ADMIN</code> to <code>False</code> in
+        <code>settings.py</code> and reload.
         </p>
       </div>
     </div>