🐍 Adding Slugs & Links to Your Django Blog Posts

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1. Why Use Slugs?

Slugs are a great way to create SEO-friendly URLs and make your blog posts easily accessible. Instead of using numerical IDs in your URL, a slug transforms the title into a readable and user-friendly format.

2. Updating the Post Model

Modify your Post model to include a slug field and generate slugs automatically from the title.

blog/models.py:

💡 What’s New?

• Added a slug field.

• Auto-generates a slug from the title if it’s not provided.

3. Updating URLs

Now modify blog/urls.py to include a path for individual blog posts.

blog/urls.py:

4. Updating Views

Now, create a view to handle displaying individual posts.

blog/views.py:

5. Updating Templates

Blog Home (blog/blog_home.html)

Modify the blog post list to include the clickable links:

Post Detail (blog/blog_post_detail.html)

Create a new template to display the full blog post.

6. Migrate Model Changes

Run the following commands in your terminal to apply your changes:

# For experts with the Django Terminal Aliases Template:
djmakemigrations
djmigrate

# For everyone else:
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

🏆 Conclusion

Tomorrow we’ll go over how to add an example blog post!

Having trouble with this step? Let me know in the comments! 🚀🐍

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Happy coding! 🚀🐍

Digital Shade