“How-to” guides

Here you’ll find short answers to “How do I….?” types of questions. These how-to guides don’t cover topics in depth – you’ll find that material in the Using Django and the API Reference. However, these guides will help you quickly accomplish common tasks.

• Authentication using REMOTE_USER
• Writing custom django-admin commands
• Writing custom model fields
• Custom Lookups
• Custom template backend
• Custom template tags and filters
• Writing a custom storage system
• Deploying Django
• Upgrading Django to a newer version
• Error reporting
• Providing initial data for models
• Integrating Django with a legacy database
• Outputting CSV with Django
• Outputting PDFs with Django
• Overriding templates
• Managing static files (e.g. images, JavaScript, CSS)
• Deploying static files
• How to install Django on Windows
• Writing database migrations

See also

The Django community aggregator, where we aggregate content from the global Django community. Many writers in the aggregator write this sort of how-to material.