Creating custom template tags and filters
Django offers a variety of built-in template tags, such as {% if %}
or {% block %}
. You used different template tags in Chapter 1, Building a Blog Application, and Chapter 2, Enhancing Your Blog with Advanced Features. You can find a complete reference of built-in template tags and filters at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/templates/builtins/.
Django also allows you to create your own template tags to perform custom actions. Custom template tags come in very handy when you need to add a functionality to your templates that is not covered by the core set of Django template tags. This could be a tag to perform a QuerySet or any server-side processing that you want to reuse across templates. For example, you could build a template tag to display the list of latest posts published on your blog. You can include this list in the sidebar of the blog for multiple pages, regardless of the view.
Custom template tags
Django provides...