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Asked: May 17, 20262026-05-17T16:25:44+00:00 2026-05-17T16:25:44+00:00

I have a model Category , and I want its objects to always be

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I have a model Category, and I want its objects to always be displayed in a navigation menu in my base.html template (which all of my other templates extend).

I want to learn best-practices so would like to know what the correct/accepted way of providing this data to the template is.

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    2026-05-17T16:25:45+00:00Added an answer on May 17, 2026 at 4:25 pm

    You could create a custom tag for the categories and place it in the base template. That way you wont have to send a “category” variable to the context on every view ..

    Good Luck

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