Django 2 by Example

Adding comments to the post detail template

We have created the functionality to manage comments for a post. Now, we will need to adapt our post/detail.html template to do the following things:

• Display the total number of comments for the post
• Display the list of comments
• Display a form for users to add a new comment

First, we will add the total comments. Open the post/detail.html template and append the following code to the content block:

{% with comments.count as total_comments %}  <h2>    {{ total_comments }} comment{{ total_comments|pluralize }}  </h2>{% endwith %}

We are using the Django ORM in the template, executing the QuerySet comments.count(). Note that Django template language doesn't use parentheses for calling methods. The {% with ...