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Extending Your Blog Application
The previous chapter went through the basics of forms and the creation of a comment system. You also learned how to send emails with Django. In this chapter, you will extend your blog application with other popular features used on blogging platforms, such as tagging, recommending similar posts, providing an RSS feed to readers, and allowing them to search posts. You will learn about new components and functionalities with Django by building these functionalities.
The chapter will cover the following topics:
- Implementing tagging using
django-taggit - Retrieving posts by similarity
- Creating custom template tags and filters to display the latest posts and most commented posts
- Adding a sitemap to the site
- Creating ...
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