Creating Django Personal App – Part 6 – Individual blog posts

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The last thing we have to do is to create the urlpatterns for individual blog posts, and the post.html page.

Editing the blog/urls.py

We have the list view of our blog posts. Now let’s add the details view so we can display an individual blog post on our website. Here is the blog/urls.py file:

from django.conf.urls import url, include
from django.views.generic import ListView, DetailView
from blog.models import Post

urlpatterns = [
	url(r'^$', ListView.as_view(queryset = Post.objects.all().order_by("-date")[:25], template_name = "blog/blog.html")),
	url(r'^(?P<pk>\d+)$', DetailView.as_view(model = Post, template_name = "blog/post.html")),
	]

The second pattern says:

  • url – this is an URL
  • r – it is a regular expression
  • ^ – marks the beginning (after /blog in this particular case)
  • () – we are capturing everything inside these parentheses
  • ?P – it is Django named group (you can read more on Django website)
  • <pk> – it stands for primary key
  • \d – the primary key must be a digit
  • + – in regular expressions it means “matches one or more”
  • \d+ – it is one or more digits
  • $ marks the end

Creating the post.htnl page

The post.html will look similar to the blog.html but in the post.html we are going to display the entire post. Here is how the post.html looks like:

{% extends "personal/header.html" %}
{% block content %}

<h2>{{post.title}}</h2>
<h6>posted on {{post.date}}</h6>
{{post.text | safe | linebreaks}}

{% endblock %}

Everything it is self-explanatory except for a couple of things probably:

  • | means filter
  • safe – allows us to put HTML in our blog posts (there are many other Jinja filters you can use)

This is how an individual blog post looks like:

Django - individual blog post

This is it! We have a fully functional website with pages and blog!

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