A hack to add __in ability to links generated in the Django Admin Filter which will add and remove values instead of only allowing to filter a single value per field. Example ?age_group__in=under25%2C25-35

admin.py

from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.admin import ChoicesFieldListFilter
from django.contrib.admin.views.main import ChangeList
from django.utils.http import urlencode
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
from django.utils.encoding import smart_text

from .models import Person


class MultipleChangeList(ChangeList):
    def get_query_string(self, new_params=None, remove=None):
        if new_params is None: new_params = {}
        if remove is None: remove = []
        p = self.params.copy()
        for r in remove:
            for k in list(p):
                if k.startswith(r):
                    del p[k]
        for k, v in new_params.items():
            if v is None:
                if k in p:
                    del p[k]
            else:
                if k in p and '__in' in k:
                    in_list = p[k].split(',')
                    if not v in in_list:
                        in_list.append(v)
                    else:
                        in_list.remove(v)
                    p[k] = ','.join(in_list)
                else:
                    p[k] = v
        return '?%s' % urlencode(sorted(p.items()))


class MultipleChoicesFieldListFilter(ChoicesFieldListFilter):
    def __init__(self, field, request, params, model, model_admin, field_path):
        super(MultipleChoicesFieldListFilter, self).__init__(
            field, request, params, model, model_admin, field_path)
        self.lookup_kwarg = '%s__in' % field_path
        self.lookup_val = request.GET.get(self.lookup_kwarg)
    
    def choices(self, cl):
        yield {
            'selected': self.lookup_val is None,
            'query_string': cl.get_query_string({}, [self.lookup_kwarg]),
            'display': _('All')
        }
        for lookup, title in self.field.flatchoices:
            yield {
                'selected': smart_text(lookup) in str(self.lookup_val),
                'query_string': cl.get_query_string({
                                    self.lookup_kwarg: lookup}),
                'display': title,
            }


class PersonAdmin(model.Admin):
    list_filter = (('education', MultipleChoicesFieldListFilter),)
    def get_changelist(self, request, **kwargs):
      return MultipleChangeList


admin.site.register(Person, PersonAdmin)