Django-Taggit is a Django application which is used to add tags to blogs, articles etc. It makes very easy for us to make adding the tags functionality to our django project.
Setting up Django Project
- Installing django-taggit
pip install django-taggit
- ADD it to Main Project’s settings.py file
Python3
INSTALLED_APPS = [ 'django.contrib.admin', 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'django.contrib.humanize', 'taggit'] |
- Changes To models.py file
Add TaggableManager in your post, blog, article modal
Python3
from django.db import modelsfrom django.utils.timezone import now from taggit.managers import TaggableManagerclass Post(models.Model): postid = models.AutoField(primary_key=True) title = models.CharField(max_length=255) content = models.TextField() author = models.CharField(max_length=100) postauthor = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE) slug = models.SlugField(unique=True) category = models.CharField(max_length=200) timestamp = models.DateTimeField(default=now, blank=True) tags = TaggableManager() |
After adding TaggableManager run following commands in terminal
- python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
The TaggableManager will show up automatically as a field in post modal
The Taggit Modal will also appear automatically as a separate modal in admin panel
Taggit Modal In Admin Panel
Adding tags
1) If the tags input doesn’t contain any commas or double quotes, it will be taken as space-delimited list of
tag names.
Lazyroar for Lazyroar => "Lazyroar", "for", "Lazyroar"
2) If the tags input does contain commas or double quotes then :
a) Lazyroar, Lazyroar for Lazyroar => "Lazyroar", "Lazyroar for Lazyroar" b) "Lazyroar, forLazyroar" geek Lazyroarfor => "Lazyroar, forLazyroar", "geek", "Lazyroarfor" c) "Lazyroar, forLazyroar", geek Lazyroarfor => "Lazyroar, forLazyroar", "Lazyroar Lazyroarfor" d) Lazyroar "for" Lazyroar => "Lazyroar", "for", "Lazyroar"
After Adding Tags to the posts the taggit modal will look like :
All the tags which are associated with different posts will appear in tags modal under taggit
On clicking the particular tag, There will come a list of all the posts associated with that particular tag. Now this model can be used with the project like other models
