In Django 1.8, a new template system was introduced along with the ability to choose a templating engine, with Jinja2 having built-in support. I tried this out on a newly created Django project and getting setup with Jinja2 was trivial following the docs; however, upon checking the /admin page, I was greeted with this: Ah, right! The contrib app Admin does not ship with Jinja2 templates. I read th