Django Admin Project: How to Add Custom ‘Actions’ (Export to CSV)
You’ve customized your Django Admin, but it has a hidden power: “Actions.” An action is a function you can run on all selected items in…
A Guide to the Django QuerySet: filter(), get(), and exclude()
This Django QuerySet guide will help you understand how a QuerySet works as Django’s “magic” tool for getting data from your database. It’s a list…
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…
