Codemy Django Simple Blog Series 07

Youtube 37 Video Course

Delete Blog Posts

Length 11:56

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.

In views.py add DeleteView to the built in views we're importing
We also need to: from django.urls import reverse_lazy

Then another class in views.py

class DeletePostView(DeleteView):
    model = Post
    template_name = 'delete_post.html'
    success_url = reverse_lazy('home')

Create delete_post.html in templates
Copy update_post.html into delete_post.html
Change title to Delete Blog Post and h1 to Delete Post

Change the rest of the body:

<h3>Delete: {{ post.title }}</h3>

<br>
<div class="form-group">
    <form method="POST">
        {% csrf token %}
        <strong>Are you sure?!</strong><br><br>
        <button class="bth btn-secondary">Delete Post!</button>
    </form>
</div>

In urls.py
- add to import DeletePostView
- path('article/<int:pk>/remove', DeletePostview.as_view(), name='delete_post'),
In home.html after the edit link add a delete link: <a href="{% url 'delete_post' post.pk %}">(Delete)</a>
Copy that same link tag to article_detail.html again right after the edit tag.
To change the order of the home page list of blog entries so that the most recent one appears first, in views.py add to the HomeView class ordering = ['-id']
At this point we've got all the main features of the blog.