["python","python-3.x","django","django-admin","django-widget"]
Django Admin: Using a custom widget for only one model field

I have a DateTimeField field in my model. I wanted to display it as a checkbox widget in the Django admin site. To do this, I created a custom form widget. However, I do not know how to use my custom widget for only this one field. The Django documentation explains how to use a custom widget for all fields of a certain type: class StopAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): formfield_overrides = { models.DateTimeField: {'widget': ApproveStopWidget } } This is not granular enough though. I want to change it for only one field.
Create a custom ModelForm for your ModelAdmin and add 'widgets' to its Meta class, like so: class StopAdminForm(forms.ModelForm): class Meta: model = Stop widgets = { 'field_name': ApproveStopWidget(), } fields = '__all__' class StopAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): form = StopAdminForm Done! Documentation for this is sort of non-intuitively placed in the ModelForm docs, without any mention to it given in the admin docs. See: Creating forms from models