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Manage content through the admin

How to fill and edit the site through the Django admin panel: the catalog, contacts, legal details, certificates. No programming needed.

The admin lives at /admin/ (locally — http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/). Sign in with an administrator login and password. If you do not have an account yet, create one with the createsuperuser command (see Run the project locally, step 5).

The admin interface is in Russian

The admin is the client's workplace, so its labels are Russian (ADR-0006). Section names below are given as they appear on screen, with an English gloss in brackets. Model field names (Name, Slug, Image, …) are shown as-is.

How the catalog is structured

The catalog has three levels:

  • Категория (category, for example "Канистры", "Крышки") — a catalog section.
  • Товар (product) belongs to exactly one category.
  • A product has specs and photos — they are edited right inside the product form, there is no need to create them separately.

Add a category

  1. On the admin home page → Категории (Categories) → Добавить категорию (Add category).
  2. Fill in:
  3. Name — the title ("Канистры").
  4. Slug — part of the URL. Filled automatically from the title; for Cyrillic titles type the Latin form by hand (kanistry). It ends up in the URL: /catalog/kanistry/.
  5. Image — the section picture (optional).
  6. Order — the sort order (a lower number is higher in the list).
  7. Is active — clear the checkbox to hide the category from the site without deleting it.
  8. Сохранить (Save).

Add a product

  1. Товары (Products) → Добавить товар (Add product).
  2. Fill in the main fields:
  3. Category — pick a category.
  4. Name — the product title.
  5. Slug — in Latin characters (kanistra-20l). It ends up in the URL: /catalog/kanistry/kanistra-20l/.
  6. Метка (badge) — a short label over the photo in the card ("Евроканистра", "Круглая"). Optional.
  7. Description — the product description.
  8. Image — the main photo of the card.
  9. Order, Is active — same as for a category.
  10. Meta title / Meta description — tags for search engines (SEO). If empty, the regular title and description are used.
  11. Характеристики (specs) and Фото товара (product photos) are added lower in the same form — see the next two sections.
  12. Сохранить (Save).

Product specs

Specs are "parameter → value" pairs (volume, weight, material). The set differs from product to product, so the fields are free-form.

In the product form, in the Характеристики (Specs) block:

  • Label — the parameter name ("Объём").
  • Value — the value ("20").
  • Unit — the unit of measurement ("л"). Optional.
  • Order — the position in the specs table.

To add another row, fill in the empty one at the bottom; to remove a row, tick Delete. Everything is saved together with the product.

In the Фото товара (Product photos) block:

  • Image — the photo file.
  • Подпись (alt) — the angle or a description ("вид сбоку", "горловина 55 мм"). Used as the alt text and the thumbnail caption.
  • Order — the position in the gallery.

On the product page these photos are shown as a carousel with thumbnails. If no photos are added, the card shows the main photo without a gallery.

Phone numbers, the address, opening hours and bank details are edited in one place — Настройки сайта (Site settings; it is a single record, not a list).

  1. Настройки сайта (Site settings) → a form with these sections opens:
  2. Контакты (Contacts) — company name, phone numbers (sales / production / accounting), contact persons, e-mail.
  3. Адрес и режим (Address and hours) — address, opening hours, the Yandex.Maps query.
  4. Реквизиты (Legal details) — INN, KPP, OGRN, bank account, bank and so on.
  5. Уведомления и аналитика (Notifications and analytics) — see below and Notification channels.
  6. Make the changes → Сохранить (Save).

Phone numbers are entered once

A phone number is entered in a display-friendly form (+7 495 000-00-00). The clickable tel: link is assembled from it automatically — there is no need to set it separately.

Upload certificates

Certificates are simply an image gallery on the "About" page.

  1. Сертификаты (Certificates) → Добавить сертификат (Add certificate).
  2. Fill in Title, Image (a scan or photo), Order, Is active (show or hide).
  3. Сохранить (Save).

The order and visibility can be changed right in the certificate list, without opening each one. If there are no active certificates, the section is hidden from the site entirely.

Leads from the site

The Заявки (Leads) section holds the submissions left through the site forms. The lead fields are read-only (a lead cannot be forged or altered from the admin).

Only one attribute can be changed — Статус (status: Новая / Обработана, i.e. new / processed). The lead list can be filtered by status and type.