pip install -e git+git://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions.git#egg=django_extensions

Automatically import your applications models in your python shell

./manage.py shell_plus
From 'auth' autoload: Permission, Group, User, Message
From 'my_app' autoload: MyModel
>>>

Visualize your project

./manage.py graph_models -a -g -o my_project_visualized.png

ForeignKeyAutocompleteAdmin

Instead of having a select box with every FK in the admin, you have an autocomplete text input.

# profile/admin.py
from django.contrib import admin
from django_extensions.admin import ForeignKeyAutocompleteAdmin

from .models import UserProfile

class UserProfileAdmin(ForeignKeyAutocompleteAdmin):
    related_search_fields = { 
        'user': ('username',),
    }   

admin.site.register(UserProfile, UserProfileAdmin)

Don’t forget to copy the django_extensions media in your static path (for javascript and css helpers).

And more…

Dive into the code, this is just the tip of the iceberg…

Links

http://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions