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How To's: Customising the Admin Interface#

CMS alternating button

Add an "active" and "neutral" state to the CMS buttons

CMS form field help text

Add help text to the form fields in the CMS

Customise the CMS Menu

Make custom changes to the left hand menu in the CMS

Customise the CMS pages list

Customise the CMS tree

Learn how to add custom UI elements to the CMS page navigation

Customise site reports

Creating your own custom data or content reports.

Extend the CMS interface

Customise the UI of the CMS backend

Extending an existing ModelAdmin

ModelAdmin interfaces that come with the core can be customised easily

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