Django suit unable to detect template override

Question

I am overriding a template file in django-suit. Unfortunately this file is not detected and overridden. According to their documentation:

Alternatively you can copy base_site.html to any of template directories, which are defined in TEMPLATE_DIRS setting (if any). By default Django looks in every registered application templates/ dir.

I have copied the file base_site.html into an existing app/templates/admin directory but this is not detected. I am already consuming template files from this directory so it should work.

What may be wrong in my situation?

Answer 1

Make sure your app is above suit in INSTALLED_APPS in settings file.

This is really important step to learn how template loaders work. It checks the folders in order of app in INSTALLED_APPS setting if it finds the template in first folder it uses that template. That's why also suit has to be above admin app because it overrides admin templates.