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Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

By: Nigel George

Overview of this book

Mastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django. The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, you’ll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain. This book is also a programmer’s manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Mastering Django: Core
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Django and Getting Started

The Sitemap framework


A sitemap is an XML file on your website that tells search engine indexers how frequently your pages change and how important certain pages are in relation to other pages on your site. This information helps search engines index your site. For more on sitemaps, see the sitemaps.org website.

The Django sitemap framework automates the creation of this XML file by letting you express this information in Python code. It works much like Django's syndication framework. To create a sitemap, just write a Sitemap class and point to it in your URLconf.

Installation

To install the sitemap app, follow these steps:

  • Add "django.contrib.sitemaps" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting.

  • Make sure your TEMPLATES setting contains a DjangoTemplates backend whose APP_DIRS options is set to True. It's in there by default, so you'll only need to change this if you've changed that setting.

  • Make sure you've installed the sites framework.

Initialization

To activate sitemap generation on your Django site, add...