<p>for some reason, templatetags do not render in templates for django admin.</p>

<p>with this snippet from:
<a href="http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/?from=olddocs#shortcut-for-simple-tags" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/?from=olddocs#shortcut-for-simple-tags</a></p>

<pre><code>{% if is_logged_in %}Thanks for logging in!{% else %}Please log in.{% endif %}
</code></pre>

<p>when placed in admin index.html, if a user is logged in, it shows "Please log in"</p>

<p>same with templatetags, can not get any app ones to show, do anything. there is no error/they do not get processed either </p>

That's only an example, the
```
is_logged_in
```
variable is not actually defined in any templates unless you put it in the context.
If you added that line and got
```
Please log in.
```
it does mean that the tag is rendering.  If it fails the
```
if
```
and goes to the
```
else
```
it is clearly being run.  You need to find something in the template you can actually use for the
```
if
```
case, though.  I haven't messed with the admin templates in newforms-admin, but depending if they use RequestContext and on which ContextProcessors you have enabled - you might be able to say
```
{% if not request.user.is_anonymous %} ...
```
or something similar.