Why does the hijack button not show up in the admin site?

If your UserAdmin object is already registered in the admin site through another app, you can disable the registration by Django Hijack setting HIJACK_DISPLAY_ADMIN_BUTTON = False in your project settings.

Afterwards, create a new UserAdmin class derived from HijackUserAdmin. Example:

from django.contrib import admin
from custom_app.admin import MyCustomUserAdmin
from custom_app.models import MyCustomUser

from hijack.admin import HijackUserAdminMixin

admin.site.unregister(MyCustomUser)


class MyCustomUserAdminWithHijackButton(HijackUserAdminMixin, MyCustomUserAdmin):
    """
    We are subclassing HijackUserAdminMixin to display the hijack button in the admin.
    """
    list_display = MyCustomUserAdmin.list_display + ('hijack_field', )

admin.site.register(MyCustomUser, MyCustomUserAdminWithHijackButton)

I do not see a notification bar when hijacking another user

  • Follow the steps described in "Setting up the notification bar" in the installation settings.
  • HIJACK_DISPLAY_WARNING must not be set to False in your project settings (default: True).
  • Make sure that django.template.context_processors.request is in your template context processors.
  • Make sure that django.contrib.staticfiles is included in your INSTALLED_APPS, and do not forget to run python manage.py collectstatic.