Django templatetags example

_latest_posts.html

ul>
  {% for p in posts %}
    <li><a href="{{ a.url }}">{{ a.title }}</a>
  {% endfor %}
</ul>

app_tags.py

# This should go in app/templatetags/app_tags.py

from django.template import Library

from app.models import Post

register = Library()

@register.inclusion_tag('app/_latest_posts.html')
def latest_posts():
    posts = Post.objects.order_by('-date')[:6]
    return locals()

base.html

{% load app_tags %}

// Lots of HTML

<div>
{% latest_posts %}
</div>