Question

I’m writing a simple blog-like application for Django and am trying to get the effect of having a front page with posts limited to 5, with a comprehensive archive that lists something like 100 posts at a time. (100 is not realistic, just throwing a number out there)

Since the blog post blocks will look exactly the same between the two pages minus the number being shown, I’d like to put the corresponding HTML in a separate template that I can include or link to from the actual templates being rendered. I’ve looked over the documentation, and the include tag looked promising, but it apparently renders outside of the current context, which is not helpful to my cause, since it wouldn’t get the objects to loop through. Outside of that, I can’t see any other way to do what I want. Is this possible or am I just out of luck and going to have to violate DRY? Code is below to give you an idea of what I want.

Thanks

#######################
# news/frontpage.html #
#######################
{% extends "news/base.html" %}

{% block site_title %} - Front Page{% endblock %}

{% block center_col %}
{{ block.super }}
     <a href="/news/">View Older Blog Posts</a>
{% endblock %}

{% block blog_rows %}
{% for object in object_list %}
     # Blog post content would go here, however it is to be included.
{% endfor %}
{% endblock %}

Answer 1

You’re looking for an inclusion tag.