Django - Did you forget to register or load this tag?

Question

I\'ve created a custom tag that I want to use, but Django can\'t seem to find it. My templatetags directory is set up like this:

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Answer 1

I had the same problem, here's how I solved it. Following the first section of this very excellent Django tutorial, I did the following:

1. Create a new Django app by executing: python manage.py startapp new_app
2. Edit the settings.py file, adding the following to the list of INSTALLED_APPS: 'new_app',
3. Add a new module to the new_app package named new_app_tags.
4. In a Django HTML template, add the following to the top of the file, but after {% extends 'base_template_name.html' %}: {% load new_app_tags %}
5. In the new_app_tags module file, create a custom template tag (see below).
6. In the same Django HTML template, from step 4 above, use your shiney new custom tag like so: {% multiply_by_two | "5.0" %}
7. Celebrate!

Example from step 5 above:

from django import template

register = template.Library()

@register.simple_tag
def multiply_by_two(value):
    return float(value) * 2.0