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Asked: 2026-06-17T17:52:36+00:00

Django’s philosophy is about webapps being reusable. But how to achieve template harmony between

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Django’s philosophy is about webapps being reusable. But how to achieve template harmony between different webapps?

Here is a hypothetical example: I want to resuse webapp 1 (e.g., django_openid) for OpenID enabled sign-on; and I want to reuse webapp 2 (e.g., django invitation app) for customer invitation; and I want to write my own app (MTV) for statistics

But their templates normally do not look belonging to a single project. How can I reuse the existing work (web app 1 and web app 2 in above hypothetical example) with least intrusive work?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m assuming that by ‘intrusive’, you mean editing files within the reusable app.

    Without being intrusive at all, you should be able to override any templates in a reusable app, by placing them in a project-level templates directory, or by providing a template with a matching name in an app of your own.

    Django template loading is completely configurable, but by default, it will look first in the directory named in settings as TEMPLATE_DIRS, and then in a templates directory in each of your installed apps, in the order they appear. By placing your app before openid or invitation in INSTALLED_APPS, then your custom templates will be loaded instead of the supplied ones.

    In some cases, I have created an “app” for a project, which is actually just an empty models.py and a collection of templates. Then I have a place to store the site base templates, as well as all of the overridden templates from other apps.

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