Build your own blog with Django

Learn how to use this extremely powerful Python-based web framework to create a complete blog from scratch in record time

Creating your own blog always feels like a great accomplishment. Sure, you could use the fantastic WordPress if you need a complete blog with every feature you’d ever need right now. And Tumblr exists for people who just want to write something, or post pictures of corgis in space. You don’t have full control from start to finish with a prefabricated blog, though, and neither of these is written in the fantastic Django. Django is of course based on Python, the object-orientated programming language designed to have clearly readable syntax. Due to its Python base, it’s an incredibly powerful and simple-to-use language for web development with a vast array of applications. So let’s use it to make a blog. In this first section of the process we will explore how…

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