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Codemy Django Simple Blog Series 08

Youtube 37 Video Course

Order Blog Posts by Date

Length 13:34

So my plan is to watch the video and take notes - not code but flow, bash instructions, etc. Then go back through the same video and write the code.

  • Primary key is automatically created by django when you create a database
  • Add a date field to our model after body in the Post class.
  • Import standard python date classes.
  • auto_now_add=True adds the current date when we create a post 
    from datetime import datetime, date
post_date = models.DateField(auto_now_add=True)
  • Now python manage.py makemigrations but you'll get an error that something is needed for existing items that don't have a date. He picked the one-off default option and the default date of timezone.now.
  • Then python manage.py migrate
  • In article_details.html after post.author.last_name - {{ post.post_date }} -
  • He did the same on the home.html template to show the date after the first name.
  • In views.py class HomeView(Listview) add ordering = ['-post_date'] which sorts by post_date in reverse date - latest first.