Here is the list of all django-admin commands with a brief description.
django-admin check
Checks the entire Django project for potential problems
django-admin changepassword <username>
Allows changing a user’s password. It prompts you to enter a new password twice for the given user.
django-admin clearsessions
Can be run as a cron job or directly to clean out expired sessions.
django-admin collectstatic
Helps to collect all the static files in the one mentioned directory
django-admin createsuperuser
Creates a superuser account (a user who has all permissions)
django-admin compilemessages
Compiles .po files to .mo files for use with builtin gettext support
django-admin createcachetable
Creates the tables needed to use the SQL cache backend.
django-admin dbshell
Runs the command-line client for a specified database, or the default database if none is provided.
django-admin diffsettings
Displays differences between the current settings.py and Django's default settings.
django-admin dumpdata
Output the contents of the database as a fixture of the given format (using each model's default manager unless --all is specified).
django-admin flush
Removes ALL DATA from the database, including data added during migrations. Does not achieve a "fresh install" state.
django-admin inspectdb
Introspects the database tables in the given database and outputs a Django model module.
django-admin loaddata
Installs the named fixture(s) in the database.
django-admin makemessages
Runs over the entire source tree of the current directory and pulls out all strings marked for translation. It creates (or updates) a message file in the conf/locale (in the Django tree) or locale (for projects and applications) directory. You must run this command with one of either the --locale, --exclude, or --all options.
django-admin help
display usage information and a list of the commands provided by each application
django-admin makemigrations
create new migrations to the database based on the changes detected in the models
django-admin migrate
synchronize the database state with your current state project models and migrations
django-admin remove_stale_contenttypes
Deletes stale content types (from deleted models) in your database.
django-admin runserver <port>
start the development webserver at 127.0.0.1 with the port <port> default 8000
django-admin sendtestemail
Sends a test email to the email addresses specified as arguments.
django-admin shell
Runs a Python interactive interpreter. Tries to use IPython or bpython, if one of them is available. Any standard input is executed as code.
django-admin showmigrations
Shows all available migrations for the current project.
django-admin sqlflush
Returns a list of the SQL statements required to return all tables in the database to the state they were in just after they were installed.
django-admin sqlmigrate
Prints the SQL statements for the named migration.
django-admin sqlsequencereset
Prints the SQL statements for resetting sequences for the given app name(s).
django-admin squashmigrations
Squashes an existing set of migrations (from first until specified) into a single new one.
django-admin startapp <Appname>
create a new Django application with the specified name
django-admin startproject <ProjectName>
create a new project directory structure
django-admin testserver
Runs a development server with data from the given fixture(s).
django-admin version
display the current Django version
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