Alias Django Template Tag

Question

So I often have to use something like the following in my Django templates:

{% include "conname.html" %}

I'd like to be able to instead just have my own tag and only have to type something like

{% conname %}

Is there an easy way to setup some sort of alias so that when ever the template engine sees the conname tag it knows that should actually be a specific include tag?

Answer 1

Pretty simple, in a module just add the following code (mine are usually called custom_tags.py:

from django import template

register = template.Library()

@register.simple_tag
def conname():
    return '''{% include "conname.html" %}'''

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#to make it available everywhere (i generally add this to my urls.py
from django.template.loader import add_to_builtins
#this will be aded to all templates
add_to_builtins('custom_tags')

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In your template you would just use {% conname %} Or you could make it more complicated and programatically call IncludeNode but that is overkill.