Question

I am creating a custom CMS, with the purpose to learn more about Django.

What I’m trying to achieve is the use of tags in database content. I have a dynamic amount of placeholders attached to a page. Each placeholder can contain tags, like “current_time”.

In the template I’m going to output the placeholder like this:

{% placeholder sidebar %}

And in the admin I want to do this:

This is the sidebar, the time is {% current_time "%Y-%m-%d %I:%M %p" %}

Well, the outputting is working, but the “current_time” tag isn’t parsed. It’s displayed as plain text. I have been looking for hours for a solution; tried regular tags, inclusion tags, simple tags, numerous snippets. But as you might guess, I still haven’t found a solution.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

Process the text as a template.