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When DEBUG is False, Django serves your own 404, 500, 403 and 400 pages. Here's how to wire up the templates and handler views, dodge the 500 context ...

A practical, Django 5.x guide to custom view decorators for role- and permission-based access control: functools.wraps, PermissionDenied vs login redi...

Integrate PayPal into Django the modern way. A 2026 guide to the JavaScript SDK Smart Payment Buttons, the REST Orders API v2 (create and capture), an...

Django's built-in ManyToManyField can only point at one model. Learn how to build a generic many-to-many relation in Django 5.x with the contenttypes ...

A practical, Django 5.x guide to GenericForeignKey and the contenttypes framework: how ContentType, content_type, object_id and content_object fit tog...

A practical, up-to-date guide to Django's messages framework in Django 5.x — the flash messages that survive a redirect. Learn the API, message levels...

A 2026, Django 5.x deep dive into model and inline formsets: when to use each, the mandatory management form, factory options, saving with commit=Fals...

A practical, up-to-date guide to Django's template engine (Django 5.x): how the TEMPLATES setting works, how templates load and render, the DTL essent...

A Django 5.x guide to model Managers, custom QuerySets, and properties: the objects interface, get_queryset() overrides, Manager.from_queryset() for c...

A current, Django 5.x guide to adding CAPTCHA and bot protection to your forms. Install django-recaptcha for reCAPTCHA v2 and v3, compare Cloudflare T...

Learn how Django middleware works in Django 5.x: the request/response cycle, writing custom middleware as a factory or class, MIDDLEWARE ordering, the...

Django's QuerySet.extra() injects raw SQL into ORM queries but is discouraged in 2026. See honest .extra() examples and the modern annotate(), Subquer...