How to add a date filter to Django admin?

This tutorial is on How to add a date filter to Django admin. You can add a date filtering on any date field by sending the date_hierarchy. The date_hierarchy uses QuerySet.datetimes() internally. The date_hierarchy to the name of a DateField or DateTimeField in your model.

date_hierarchy = 'pub_date'

And you can also specify a field on a related model using the __.

date_hierarchy = 'author__pub_date'

Example

from django.contrib import admin
from .models import Question

@admin.register(Question)
class QuestionAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    date_hierarchy = 'pub_date' # DateField

It looks like this:

As an alternate, you can subclass SimpleListFilter to allow filtering only in years or months.