Ah, very good. I understand now. Thank you both for your help.
On Friday, October 19, 2018 at 10:49:28 PM UTC-5, Daniel Veazey wrote:
>
> I'm using 2.1. I have a list of blog posts, and I want to display them
> differently based on their age. The most recent post will be displayed
> prominently, and the 10 most recent posts after that will be displayed in
> two columns below it. The way I'm passing the view to the template is:
>
> class PostListView(ListView):
> model = Post
> template_name = 'mainapp/home.html'
>
>
> def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
> context = super().get_context_data(**kwargs)
> context['latest'] = Post.objects.all().order_by('-date_posted')[0]
> context['first_column'] = Post.objects.all().order_by(
> '-date_posted')[1:6]
> context['second_column'] = Post.objects.all().order_by(
> '-date_posted')[6:10]
> return context
>
> Then I use 'latest', 'first_column' and 'second_column' in the template to
> display those things in their separate divs.
>
> Doing it this way works, but I am very new and I think I might have bodged
> it when there's a better way to do it. Any suggestions?
>
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