Django signals: How to Run Code on Model Events (e.g., post_save)
What if you want to automatically send a welcome email every time a new user signs up? Or create a User Profile the instant a…
How to Add Pagination to Your Django ListView (The Easy Way)
Your blog is a success! You now have 1,000 posts. But you have a problem: your Post List Page now tries to load all 1,000…
How to Create a User Profile Model in Django (OneToOneField)
You have a Django User model, but it only has username, email, etc. What if you want to add a bio, a profile_picture, or a…
Customizing the Django Admin: list_display and search_fields
You’ve used admin.site.register(Post) to add your model to the admin. But the result is ugly: just a list of Post object (1), Post object (2),…
Django Forms: How to Automatically Set the Author on Save
You’ve secured your views. Now you have a new problem. When a user creates a new post, how do you save who that user was?…
Django Project: Building a Simple Comment System
A blog isn’t complete until users can comment. This project will teach you one of Django’s most important concepts: database relationships (ForeignKeys). Building a Django…
Django Permissions: How to Use UserPassesTestMixin (Beyond Login)
In our last security guide, we used LoginRequiredMixin to block logged-out users. But this still leaves a security hole: Any logged-in user can edit any…
How to Secure Django Views with LoginRequiredMixin
You’ve built a full CRUD application and a Login System. But there’s a huge security hole: Anyone can visit /post/5/edit/ and change your posts! To…
Django File Uploads: How to Add Images to Your Models
Let’s add a “profile picture” or “post image” to your models. Working with Django File Uploads means handling files involves three key parts: the Model,…
Django in Production: Serving Static Files with Whitenoise
You deployed your Django app, but it looks terrible—all the CSS and images are missing! This is a common issue that can often be resolved…
