Customising the menu item

You can use the following attributes and methods on the ModelAdmin class to alter the menu item used to represent your model in Wagtail’s admin area.

ModelAdmin.menu_label

Expected value: A string.

Set this attribute to a string value to override the label used for the menu item that appears in Wagtail’s sidebar. If not set, the menu item will use verbose_name_plural from your model’s Meta data.

ModelAdmin.menu_icon

Expected value: A string matching one of Wagtail’s icon class names.

If you want to change the icon used to represent your model, you can set the menu_icon attribute on your class to use one of the other icons available in Wagtail’s CMS. The same icon will be used for the menu item in Wagtail’s sidebar, and will also appear in the header on the list page and other views for your model. If not set, 'doc-full-inverse' will be used for page-type models, and 'snippet' for others.

If you’re using a ModelAdminGroup class to group together several ModelAdmin classes in their own sub-menu, and want to change the menu item used to represent the group, you should override the menu_icon attribute on your ModelAdminGroup class ('folder-open-inverse' is the default).

ModelAdmin.menu_order

Expected value: An integer between 1 and 999.

If you want to change the position of the menu item for your model (or group of models) in Wagtail’s sidebar, you do that by setting menu_order. The value should be an integer between 1 and 999. The lower the value, the higher up the menu item will appear.

Wagtail’s ‘Explorer’ menu item has an order value of 100, so supply a value greater than that if you wish to keep the explorer menu item at the top.

ModelAdmin.add_to_settings_menu

Expected value: True or False

If you’d like the menu item for your model to appear in Wagtail’s ‘Settings’ sub-menu instead of at the top level, add add_to_settings_menu = True to your ModelAdmin class.

This will only work for individual ModelAdmin classes registered with their own modeladmin_register call. It won’t work for members of a ModelAdminGroup.