Django Taggit: Model Tag, Admin and Filtering
Django Taggit, model tag, registered in admin, and filtering, with bootstrap.
Official docs django-taggit.
Project structure. templates folder, base.html, articles.html, myapp/urls.py files are manually created, other files are auto-generated.
Step 1: Preparation, Create Django Project
create virtualenv: virtualenv venv
start virtualenv: venv/Scripts/activate
install Django and django-taggit in virtualenv:
pip install django==3.2 django-taggit
Create Django: django-admin startproject myproject
Go to myproject folder: cd myproject
Step 2: Create Django Apps and Register Django-taggit
Create apps: python manage.py startapp myapp
Add myapp and taggit to INSTALLED_APPS in myproject/settings.py
Step 3: Add Model with Tags
Step 4: Register Model in Django Admin
Step 5: Makemigrations and Migrate
Make migrations: python manage.py makemigrations
Migrate: python manage.py migrate
Step 6: Create Superuser
Create superuser: python manage.py createsuperuser
Type username, email password and retype password
Step 7: Run Server and Add Some Data
Run Server: python manage.py runserver
Access: http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin
Login with superuser and add some data
Step 8: Set up Templates Folder
Create folder templates in myapp
Add template directory in TEMPLATES parameter in myproject/settings.py
Path(BASE_DIR, 'myapp', 'templates'),
Step 9: Create HTML Files in myapp/templates Folder
Create bootstrap base template, template/base.html
Create template/articles.html
Step 10: Create View in myapp/views.py
Step 11: Setup URLs in myapp and myproject Folder
Create myapp/urls.py
Update myproject/urls.py
Step 12: Run Server and Test
Run Server: python manage.py runserver
Access:
http://127.0.0.1:8000/articles