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> For instance, in my experience the admin site is best thought of as glorified DB UI. If you need something more than what it can offer out of the box, you should switch to coding it yourself, or live with a quick hack.

Agreed. My biggest Django headaches ultimately resulted from me trying to make the admin console do more than it's meant to do.

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There are certainly limitations to the admin console/module, but it is still rather amazing. The amount of stuff that it will allow you to do is pretty impressive.

Sure, you easily get into a situation where you're out of luck using the admin module, but there are also entire classes of problems that can be solved using only the build in admin functionality.

Yeah, the trick I've learned is to design my models in a way that I know will work well in the admin. It's a little backwards, but it means I can keep using the admin.

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