Django django.contrib.staticfiles.templatetags.static removed in 3.0: How could I replace the functionality?

Question

I have the following code block where a corresponding .css file's path is returned.
It is part of a Theme-Class that allows the user to change the website theme (dark and light) from a button in the profile view.

def link(self) -> str:
        """
        Returns the link where the CSS file for this theme is located
        """
        return static('app_shared/colors_%s.css' % self.name())

The same problem when it occurs in an HTML-Template can be solved by changing {% load staticfiles %} to {% load static %} . Obviously for source code I will need another alternative.

Answer 1

django.contrib.staticfiles.templatetags was deprecated in Django's version 2.1 . And now it has been completely removed from version 3 .

Simply, replace

from django.contrib.staticfiles.templatetags.staticfiles import static

with

from django.templatetags.static import static

Hope this will help...

Answer 2

You're misunderstanding what's being removed. django.contrib.staticfiles.templatetags.static() is deprecated in favor of django.templatetags.static.static() . If you use the latter, everything will work as you expect it.

See the Django 2.1 release notes , when this was deprecated.

Answer 3

Here's what I did to get my project static files working on Django 3.0:

Previously in settings.py I had the following:

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
            'builtins': [
                'django.contrib.staticfiles.templatetags.staticfiles', 
            ]
        },
    },
]

Because of the change you mentioned, now I have:

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
            'builtins': [
                'django.templatetags.static',  # <------------ New way
            ]
        },
    },
]

and it works again.

I kind of wish this was just a standard part of Django as this has been pretty much necessary in all of my projects, but alas, this works.