Using fancy Html templates

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After I added a lots of thing to my blog I wanted to add a template but to do that it seemed like I need to override. So I created a new app that is exact replica of the first one. in the new one I would add the template and then copy and paste a bunch of code into the new one. But When I did that I was caught in an error. which was really hard to fix. After I imported the template I added a static bar/code to everything that has images, js, videos and others. But still there was no change. I hope someone can help me. If anything else is needed please do ask. I am really sorry for pasting the entire code. If I edit the code I might miss something important. There is a million difference between how it should look and not. but I cant seem to work it out.

Here's how mine should looks:

https://www.free-css.com/assets/files/free-css-templates/preview/page252/scenic/

views.py:

from django.shortcuts import render

def home(request):
    return render(request,'home.html',{})

Code:

{% load static %}




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settings.py:

from pathlib import Path
import os

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'myblog',
]

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

STATICFILES_DIRS = [
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
]

# Build paths inside the project like this: BASE_DIR / 'subdir'.
BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent

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user_12018578 · Answer

Okay, i'm not exactly sure where did you put your template "home.html" file so i made the assumption of you putting it in the 'static' file same with all the other assets (js/css folders)

So i basically made the template section in settings.py the following:

    TEMPLATES = [
        {'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')],},]
    BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
    STATIC_URL = '/static/'

    STATICFILES_DIRS = [
       os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
    ]

then inside "home.html", i changed every single 'myblog' to '.' and it worked just fine.

Oh, since the Auto-generated template settings basically has a specific way of searching, provided at "https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/settings/#std:setting-TEMPLATES"

So provided your current settings of static files

    STATICFILES_DIRS = [
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
    ]

Your django settings tells it to look for static on the same folder that manage.py is located at, (The value of the BASE_DIR) So in your html, remove 'myblog/' so the engine looks for 'static/js, static/css' however if you want to keep "myblog", inside static file which must be in the same folder as manage.py, create 'myblog' and move all the folders (js, css..) inside it so your file path would look like

mainsite: app_name
          another_app
          manage.py
          static:
                 myblog:
                        css
                        js

Apologies for the terrible answer format.

user_13427720 · Answer

Edit your settings.py :- replace BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent on the top of the file just after importing os.

try this in setttings.py:

from pathlib import Path
import os

# Build paths inside the project like this: BASE_DIR / 'subdir'.
BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'myblog',
]

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

STATICFILES_DIRS = [
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
]

Using fancy Html templates

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