Django 2 by Example

Caching template fragments

Caching template fragments is a higher-level approach. You need to load the cache template tags in your template using {% load cache %}. Then, you will be able to use the {% cache %} template tag to cache specific template fragments. You will usually use the template tag as follows:

{% cache 300 fragment_name %}    ...{% endcache %}

The {% cache %} tag has two required arguments: the timeout, in seconds, and a name for the fragment. If you need to cache content depending on dynamic data, you can do so by passing additional arguments to the {% cache %} template tag to uniquely identify the fragment.

Edit the /students/course/detail.html of the students application. Add the following code at the top of it, just after ...