Question

I have a template that looks something like:

Main Template, home.html:

{% extends "framed.html" %}
<h2> stuff <h2>

framed.html looks something like

{% block header %}
<h1>{{ sitename }}</h1>
{% endblock %}

Normally when I call these views I give it a context with a context containing a key “sitename” assigned get_current_site().name, which works fine.

I also, however, would like to use framed.html at the top of a bunch of templates that are also called by django default views. For example:

 return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('django.contrib.auth.views.login'))

The top of that page never gets the {{sitename}} to show up, so I end up with some blank space at the top of my page. The same goes for flat pages, logouts, etc. Is there a way I can get the relevant context added to all of these “built-in” pages?

Answer 1

You can write your own template context processor that will add required variable in the parameters provided to each template.

More details at Writing your own context processors