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Django Website Templates

Hello Coders!

This article presents a curated list with open-source and Free Django Website Templates available for download under permissive licenses without a registration lock or other limitations like footer credit links. All products are actively supported and might be used in many ways from eLearning to code professional websites and open-source projects.

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Getting Started with Django

For newcomers, Django is a high-level Python web framework designed to accelerate the development of secure and maintainable websites. It follows the model-template-view architectural pattern, promoting clean design and the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle.

Django's ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) allows developers to interact with databases using Python code instead of raw SQL, enhancing productivity and reducing the risk of SQL injection attacks. The framework includes a comprehensive set of tools and libraries out of the box, including an admin interface, authentication system, and form handling.

This "batteries included" approach enables rapid development without sacrificing scalability or performance. Django's emphasis on reusable components and its extensive ecosystem of third-party packages make it suitable for projects of any scale, from small web applications to large-scale enterprise solutions.


Django Material Dashboard

Open-source Django Dashboard project crafted on top of Material Dashboard, an open-source Bootstrap 5 design from Creative-Tim.

This starter comes with a codebase that uses a theme-able UI (installed via PIP) that covers the admin section, and all other pages managed by Django Auth flow. On top of this, the CI/CD set up allows deploying LIVE the product on Render without effort or low-level configuration.

Django Material Dashboard - Open-Source Django Starter


Django Material Kit

Material Kit is a Free Bootstrap 5 UI Kit with a fresh, new design inspired by Google's material design. Material Kit makes use of light, surface and movement. It uses a deliberate color choice, edge-to-edge imagery and large scale typography.

Django Material Kit - Modern UI Library for Django crafted on top of a modern Bootstrap, Open-Source Design.


Django Soft UI Dashboard

Open-source Django Dashboard built on a modern design. Designed for those who like bold elements and beautiful websites, Soft UI Dashboard is ready to help you create stunning websites and web apps.
Soft UI Dashboard is built with over 70 frontend individual elements, like buttons, inputs, navbars, nav tabs, cards, or alerts, giving you the freedom of choosing and combining.

Django Soft Dashboard - Modern template for Django Admin Section crafted on top of a modern Bootstrap 5 Design.


Django AdminLTE

Open-source Django project crafted on top of AdminLTE, an open-source and iconic Bootstrap design. The product is designed to deliver the best possible user experience with highly customizable feature-rich pages.

Django AdminLTE - Open-Source Django Starter


Rocket Django TailwindCSS

This Django Boilerplate has all you need to build your SaaS, Analytics tool, or any other type of Web App. From idea to production in 5 minutes.

Features and Tech Stack: TailwindCSS β€’ Flowbite β€’ API (DRF) β€’ Celery Beat β€’ DataTables β€’ Charts β€’ Docker β€’ CI/CD.

Free Django Dashboard and Admin Template - Rocket Django.


Django Datta Able

Datta Able Bootstrap Lite is the most stylized Bootstrap 4 Lite Admin Template, among all other Lite/Free admin templates in the market. It comes with highly feature-rich pages and components with fully developer-centric code.

Datta Able (enhaced with dark mode) - Open-Source Seed project generated by AppSeed.


Django Soft Design

Soft UI Design System is built with over 70 frontend individual elements, like buttons, inputs, navbars, nav tabs, cards or alerts, giving you the freedom of choosing and combining.

Django Website Template - Soft UI Design.


Django Pixel UI

Free Django Admin Template Starter coded with basic modules, database, ORM, and deployment scripts on top of Pixel Lite UI Kit, a fully responsive and modern Bootstrap 5 UI Kit that will help you build creative and professional websites. The Django codebase is provided with database, ORM, authentication, and deployment scripts.

Pixel Lite is a Django Website Template open-source and completely free for download.


Volt Dashboard Django

Volt Dashboard is a free and open-source Bootstrap 5 Admin Dashboard featuring over 100 components, 11 example pages, and 3 plugins with Vanilla JS. There are more than 100 free Bootstrap 5 components included some of them being buttons, alerts, modals, date pickers, and so on.

Volt Dashboard - Full-Stack Starter generated by AppSeed.


Black Dashboard Django

Black Dashboard is a beautiful Bootstrap 4 Admin Dashboard with a huge number of components built to fit together and look amazing. It combines colors that are easy on the eye, spacious cards, beautiful typography, and graphics. This modern, dark-themed UI is crafted by Creative-Tim.

Black Dashboard - Full-Stack Starter generated by AppSeed.


Atlantis Dark Django

Atlantis Lite (Dark Design) is a free Bootstrap 4 admin dashboard that is beautifully and elegantly designed to display various metrics, numbers or data visualization. Atlantis Lite admin dashboard has 2 layouts, many plugins, and UI components to help developers create dashboards quickly and effectively so they can save development time and also help users to make the right and fast decisions based on existing data.

Atlantis Lite Django - Open-Source Django Starter


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Bernd Wechner • Edited

Thanks heaps! Curation of such features is a huge gift to the community.

It would be even better, for me at least, if the curation included clarity around two open questions:

  1. Ease of applying a given template to an existing Django website. Oft times I find there are heaps of tips and good guides on starting from scratch, and little to no help on grafting onto an existing site.

  2. The nuances of cost. There are four distinct cost models out there:

    1. Free: no strings attached.
    2. Freemium: A free tier and a higher paid tiers, pr,o enterprise whatever.
    3. Purchase: One off price
    4. Lease: A regular fee, monthly as a rule.

Here I concern myself with the distinction between 1 and 2, Free and Freemium. Primarily because Freemium implies by its nature that there are features we may well want in future that have a paywall. Which is only an issue with me (and my ilk) because the only Django sites I develop, maintain, and host are all community services, produce a revue of precisely $0 and hence have a capital budget of about $0 too. Small fees are not out of the question if they are Purchase fees, but Leases lose appeal fast. Either way the nuance of pricing here is a huge decision influence.

And I raise that primarily because when I click the links you provided they all go to appseed.us which sports a Pro Version link in the top menu and when I click them I'm rapidly lost in reading lots of stuff. To wit, even better curation covers this ground for me up front I guess.

Anyhow, not a complaint, far from it. Top work, and great list, thank you immensely. Just musings on how to make it even better if you care to.

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Sm0ke • Edited

Hello @thumbone !

Ty for your feedback. With your permission I will say a few words regarding your remarks.

All free versions provided by AppSeed are released under the MIT License. Basically anyone can use the code for unlimited hobby & commercial products.


Regarding Q1: we are working to provide a theme-able installation on legacy products. We have a pilot project over a Django Admin Theme: Django Black


Other aspects free products:

  • code is available on Github
  • no registration lock on AppSeed
  • no footer credit
  • support is provided via multiple funnels: email, Discord & Github (issues tracker)

The PRO version is something that we provide extra based on the superior UI & priority on support.

In case you like what we provide, feel free to join Discord and chat with the support team.

We are there 24/7 to assist the community.

Thanks again for your time!
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Bernd Wechner

Thanks! I'm on Discord. And I'm still a ways off skinning the site I'm developing (still working on backend data integrity) but in time, I hope to skin it elegantly and offer different themes (which is not too hard to with Django - for exmaple the vanilla skin (the crass simple developers default skin) a default skin and possibly different contrast skins (dark and red/green colorblind are common targets).

I wonder though if you can clarify "The PRO version is something that we provide extra based on the superior UI" ...

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Sm0ke

PRO version comes with a premium UI Kit (more pages & components).
Let me know the precise UI requirements for your project(s).
We have also a Jinja version for all themes that probably are easier to integrate.
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Bernd Wechner

But what are pages? I''m curious. How could they be limited? Django provides routes (urls) mapped to views which load templates. To an end users each unique route resembles a page. But I'm not sure what you mean by "more pages".

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More pre-built pages and components. I mean the UI kit provided with a PRO version comes with more pages & components.
There is no limitation in the Django codebase regarding this.
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ui-themes

Thanks for sharing!
My vote goes for Soft UI.

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Sm0ke

πŸš€πŸš€ - Great product.

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WebsiteMarket

Pixel looks great!

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