Building a Social Website
In the preceding chapter, you learned how to implement a tagging system and how to recommend similar posts. You implemented custom template tags and filters. You also learned how to create sitemaps and feeds for your site, and you built a full-text search engine using PostgreSQL.
In this chapter, you will learn how to develop user account functionalities to create a social website, including user registration, password management, profile editing, and authentication. We will implement social features into this site in the next few chapters, to let users share images and interact with each other. Users will be able to bookmark any image on the internet and share it with other users. They will also be able to see activity on the platform from the users they follow and like/unlike the images shared by them.
This chapter will cover the following topics:
- Creating a login view
- Using the Django authentication framework
- Creating templates...
