Django 1.10.1 'my_templatetag' is not a registered tag library. Must be one of:

Question

I want a menu thats custom depending which group you are member of. Im using Django 1.10.1, allauth and so on. When im trying to make my templatetag it fails and it says:¨

TemplateSyntaxError at /
'my_templatetag' is not a registered tag library. Must be one of:
account
account_tags
admin_list
admin_modify
admin_static
admin_urls
cache
i18n
l10n
log
socialaccount
socialaccount_tags
static
staticfiles
tz

'my_templatetag.py' looks like this:

from django import template
from django.contrib.auth.models import Group


register = template.Library()

@register.filter(name='has_group')
def has_group(user, group_name):
    group =  Group.objects.get(name=group_name)
    return group in user.groups.all()

and tha error comes in my .html file which say,

{%  load my_templatetag %}

I have tried to restart the server like millions of times, also i tried to change all the names, and the app is a part of INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Besides putting my_templatetag.py inside app_name/templatetags, make sure you restart the Django development server (or ensure it restarted itself) every time you modify template tags. If the server does not restart, Django won't register the tags.