How to edit django-allauth default templates?

The correct answer can be found here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/31282443/4992248

1. Create yourproject/templates/allauth/account/ and paste here all templates you need to edit from /myproject/Lib/site-packages/allauth/templates/account.

If you need to make changes for socialaccount templates, create also yourproject/templates/allauth/socialaccount/

2. Edit 'DIRS' in settings.py like 'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'), os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates', 'allauth')],

In the end it should look somethink like this:

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'), os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates', 'allauth')],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'debug': False,
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.template.context_processors.media',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    },
]

3. You never should do any code changes at /Lib/site-packages/*, because all changes are lost once a package is updated.

Try This:

Create account directory in your app's template dir so that it looks like below

yourppname/templates/account

and files

yourppname/templates/account/login.html

yourppname/templates/account/signup.html

and add below to your TEMPLATE DIRS Remember to change yourappname to your app's name

os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'yourappname', 'templates')

TEMPLATES = [
{
    'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
    'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'yourappname', 'templates')],
    'APP_DIRS': True,
    'OPTIONS': {
        'context_processors': [
            'django.template.context_processors.debug',
            'django.template.context_processors.request',
            'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
            'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
        ],
    },
},
]

This worked for me using Django 2.1.7 and django-allauth 0.39.1:

• In the folder yourapp/templates/ create a folder named account so at the end the structure is yourapp/templates/account/ and add all templates that you want to override like login.html or signup.html.

• In settings.py my Template Dirs remain the same

  'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],

It seems that the documentation of the module is out of date. For Django 1.10 you should do the following:

• download the module with pip
• add the following to INSTALLED_APPS(/settings.py file)

'django.contrib.sites', # first place
'allauth',  # after your modules declarations
'allauth.account',
'allauth.socialaccount',

• add the backends declarations and another stuff needed by allauth

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
'allauth.account.auth_backends.AuthenticationBackend',
)
SITE_ID = 1
ACCOUNT_EMAIL_REQUIRED = True
ACCOUNT_USERNAME_REQUIRED = True

• seems that for django 1.10 is not needed to modify TEMPLATES section (django-allauth==0.28.0). You can verify the modules versions using the "pip freeze" command.

• create an artificial module to override the templates; for example, my project is named irj_app and I've add a new application called _shared, then i have the following structure, and add it to INSTALLED_APPS before 'allauth' declarations :

irj_app / _shared

• i've created a templates directory inside "_shared" folder and i've added a file called "base.html" that overrides the allauth template. what i'd found is that django-allauth creates a template that overrides the layout that you've made before, then you need to intercept the django-allauth templates to change this behavior. Also you can override any template of this authentication mechanism. For example i have:

irj_app / _shared / templates / base.html

irj_app / _shared / templates / account / base.html

irj_app / _shared / templates / account / signup.html

irj_app / _shared / templates / _shared / adminlte-template / ... (template for other modules)

hope it helps