1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/admin.txt b/docs/admin.txt
index 996930fc2b..08cafc2450 100644
--- a/docs/admin.txt
+++ b/docs/admin.txt
@@ -609,11 +609,16 @@ In this example, we register the default ``AdminSite`` instance
     # urls.py
     from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
     from django.contrib import admin
+    
+    admin.autodiscover()
 
     urlpatterns = patterns('',
         ('^admin/(.*)', admin.site.root),
     )
 
+Above we used ``admin.autodiscover()`` to automatically load the
+``INSTALLED_APPS`` admin.py modules.
+
 In this example, we register the ``AdminSite`` instance
 ``myproject.admin.admin_site`` at the URL ``/myadmin/`` ::
 
@@ -625,6 +630,10 @@ In this example, we register the ``AdminSite`` instance
         ('^myadmin/(.*)', admin_site.root),
     )
 
+There is really no need to use autodiscover when using your own ``AdminSite``
+instance since you will likely be importing all the per-app admin.py modules
+in your ``myproject.admin`` module.
+
 Note that the regular expression in the URLpattern *must* group everything in
 the URL that comes after the URL root -- hence the ``(.*)`` in these examples.