limit # of posts on homepage

[paulcollinsiii]

This should be some kind of user configurable setting. Probably makes the most sense in settings.py

Later on for testing perhaps we should use factory_boy to assert that the n+1 post does NOT show up on the page?

[treyhunner]

You mentioned using a template tag for this.

Also not sure how factory_boy is applicable here.

[treyhunner]

Nevermind, the template tag was for the sidebar history.

[treyhunner]

@ everyone: do you think this is a a worthwhile pursuit?:

• Add a setting to the settings.py file (HOMEPAGE_POST_NUMBER or some better name?)
• from django.conf import settings at the top of our myblog/views file and add the setting to the context so it can be used in the homepage for loop
• specify paginate_by in our HomeView (which is a ListView)
• add a /page/(?P<page>[0-9]+)/$ URL that points to HomeView allowing conditional display of older and newer links on homepage

I think this demonstrates:

• creating custom settings (good to know django.conf.settings)
• digging deeper into ListView documentation and the extra features it gives us
• another example of a URL regex
• more conditional logic in templates