TemplateSyntaxError at 'bootstrap4' is not a registered tag library. Must be one of: bootstrap is installed and in INSTALED_APPS

Question

I am trying to use bootstrap_datepicker_plus and to do that I need bootstrap4 . I have installed it. when I run pipenv run pip freeze , I see:

django-bootstrap==0.2.4
django-bootstrap-datepicker-plus==3.0.5
django-bootstrap4==2.3.1
django-compressor==2.4
django-jquery==3.1.0

and I have in settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
"bootstrap4",
"bootstrap_datepicker_plus",

But I still see

TemplateSyntaxError at /myapp/
'bootstrap4' is not a registered tag library. Must be one of:

when I include {% load bootstrap4 %} in my template. Does anyone have an idea of why the tag is not registered? I have restarted the server.

Answer 1

Django allows you to use different settings for different environments. My project was using this but left the settings.py file there which was not being used. There was a base.py file in the settings folder that I should have been editing.