Django FORM_RENDERER for frontend only

Question

By default Django uses this setting determine where the form widgets come from:

FORM_RENDERER = 'django.forms.renderers.DjangoTemplates'

As we want all labels removed, and apply some overrides, it was changed to:

FORM_RENDERER = 'django.forms.renderers.TemplatesSetting'

This all works fine for the frontend. However, it renders the backend unusable as now all labels are removed there as well.

My question, how do I get Django to use the original setting for the admin?

Answer 1

It seems you cannot split up the frontend and backend. In the end, I ended up creating custom form/widget classes which I'm using all over the frontend.

The steps were:

1. Keep an original copy of the Django forms in your templates folder
2. Create a duplicate of each widget template you need in your own template folder
3. Create a custom form class which overrides the template_name in init to force the use of your custom templates. This formclass can be treated as a mixing.