Django - “Include” a block in several templates? Template tag? Something else?

Question

I have a little statistics block that I want to be available in several places: the profile page of a user, and a search page with a list of users.

What would be th

Answer 1

include template tag

You can include templates with arguments:

{% include "name_snippet.html" with person="Jane" greeting="Hello" %}

Template inheritance

But the best way to repeat a block in all templates, is to have a base template say base.html:

...
    

        {% if request.user.is_authenticated %}
            hello {{ request.user }}
        {% else %}
            Sign up!
        {% endif %}
    
 ...
    

        {% block body %}
        {% endblock %}
    
 ...
 

For example, the contact template could be as simple as:

{% extends 'base.html' %}

{% block body %}
    Contact use: foo@example.com
{% endblock %}

Refer to documentation on template inheritance for more.

inclusion_tag

Finally, another great option is to make an inclusion_tag, which allows to hook some python context processing before actual template inclusion.