Sometimes we need to create a secret key, but we don’t want to go to a website and generate it. While I’m sure those websites are generally good guys – it only takes one bad guy stealing secret keys and… Read More »Create a Django Secret Key in your Terminal
Say you have a model that handles images like this: To get it showing in your template you need these settings (here all files go into the media directory): THEN in your main urls.py file you need this line so… Read More »Displaying uploaded images in Django
Recently I had the following model that held a list of countries: And my admin file was like this: Problem was in the Django Admin the incorrect plural was rendered: Now as a person of style and class it is… Read More »Adjusting the Plural of a Model in Django Admin
We’ve all wanted to do it – to just have a table sortable on the front end. You click on the column and the table sorts to that column. We don’t want to write heaps of code on the back… Read More »Making HTML tables sortable without backend shenanigans
On my site I wanted visitors to the home page to be immediately redirected to the member’s area if they were already logged in. This saves them a click or two and gets them straight down to business, as opposed… Read More »Redirecting an already logged in user in Django using Class Based Views
Retool is a website application that allows you to quickly create dashboards and management information system (MIS) reports. The dashboards are intended for internal use – you don’t show them to the public. I use it because it can quickly… Read More »Integrating Django Rest Framework and Retool
So I wanted to add a sitemap to my site – and I went looking for a plugin to do it for me. But I don’t need a plugin! Why? Because Django has sitemap generation built into the framework! Brilliant!… Read More »Creating Sitemaps in Django
Sometimes you may wish to raise a 404 in the middle of a class based view. Perhaps you determine in the middle of get_context_data() that you don’t want this user accessing the object for some reason. Consider a horse stable,… Read More »Raising a 404 error from a Class Based View in Django
Every Django Application has the magnificent Django Admin built in enabling you to access your database tables in a very nice way. The url is typically admin/ The problem is that hackers also know the default admin url for a… Read More »Securing your Django Admin by using a HoneyPot
Sometimes you have large data sets. Most of the time this makes Django slow. For example there are 17,000 suburbs in Australia – so having an address with a foreign key to suburb is going to create slowness in forms… Read More »Choose, and choose quickly: Optimising ModelChoiceField