{% block title %}Django{% endblock %}

# 'messages' is not a registered tag library **URL:** \ **Category:** Mystery Errors\ **Created:** [September 19, 2023, 12:22pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/messages-is-not-a-registered-tag-library/23980 "2023-09-19T12:22:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1

**Author:** ![GrafilIan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/grafilian/32/16021_2.png) [@GrafilIan](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/GrafilIan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 12:22pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/messages-is-not-a-registered-tag-library/23980/1 "2023-09-19T12:22:50Z")

Hi everyone, new to Django. I’m struggling with this error: ‘messages’ is not a registered tag library.Must be one of: admin\_list,admin\_modify, admin\_urls, cache, i18n, l10n, log, static, tz. This error occurs when I use {% load messages %}. I already checked my settings.py and everything looks fine. The: ```auto 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware', 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware', ``` are all placed correctly. And now, I can’t really fix the problem after troubleshooting it all the possible ways that Internet suggests me to do. I hope someone can help me on this. Thank you so much. btw. This is my scratch login.html looks like ```auto {% extends "base.html" %} {% block title %}Log In{% endblock %} {% block content %}

Log In

{% endblock %} ``` And here is my base.html: ```auto {% load static %} {% block title %}Django{% endblock %}

{% block content %} {% endblock %}

``` ---

**Author:** ![KenWhitesell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/kenwhitesell/32/280_2.png) [@KenWhitesell](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/KenWhitesell)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/messages-is-not-a-registered-tag-library/23980/2 "2023-09-19T12:26:03Z")

First, when posting code, templates, or error messages here, please enclose the text between lines of three backtick - ` characters. This means you’ll have a line of ```, then your code (or template, etc), then another line of ```. This forces the forum software to keep your code properly formatted. (I’m taking the liberty of editing your original post for this. Please remember to do this in the future.) ---

**Author:** ![KenWhitesell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/kenwhitesell/32/280_2.png) [@KenWhitesell](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/KenWhitesell)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 12:28pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/messages-is-not-a-registered-tag-library/23980/3 "2023-09-19T12:28:45Z")

Please post your complete `INSTALLED_APPS`, `MIDDLEWARE` and `TEMPLATES` settings. ---

**Author:** ![GrafilIan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/grafilian/32/16021_2.png) [@GrafilIan](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/GrafilIan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/messages-is-not-a-registered-tag-library/23980/4 "2023-09-19T12:32:09Z")

Thank you sir for guiding me here, I am definitely a newbie here. I’ll gonna provide the settings in a minute. ---

**Author:** ![GrafilIan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/grafilian/32/16021_2.png) [@GrafilIan](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/GrafilIan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 12:37pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/messages-is-not-a-registered-tag-library/23980/5 "2023-09-19T12:37:28Z")

This is my installed apps: ‘’’ INSTALLED\_APPS = [ ‘internship’, ‘django.contrib.admin’, ‘django.contrib.auth’, ‘django.contrib.contenttypes’, ‘django.contrib.sessions’, ‘django.contrib.messages’, ‘django.contrib.staticfiles’, ] ‘’’ This is my MIDDLEWARE ‘’’ MIDDLEWARE = [ ‘django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware’, ‘django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware’, ‘django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware’, ‘django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware’, ‘django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware’, ‘django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware’, ‘django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware’, ] ‘’’ And my TEMPALTES: ‘’’ TEMPLATES = [ { ‘BACKEND’: ‘django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates’, ‘DIRS’: [os.path.join(BASE\_DIR, “templates”)], ‘APP\_DIRS’: True, ‘OPTIONS’: { ‘context\_processors’: [ ‘django.template.context\_processors.debug’, ‘django.template.context\_processors.request’, ‘django.contrib.auth.context\_processors.auth’, ‘django.contrib.messages.context\_processors.messages’, ‘django.template.context\_processors.static’, ], }, }, ] ‘’’ ---

**Author:** ![GrafilIan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/grafilian/32/16021_2.png) [@GrafilIan](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/GrafilIan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/messages-is-not-a-registered-tag-library/23980/6 "2023-09-19T12:40:21Z")

This is my installed apps: ‘’‘INSTALLED\_APPS = [ ‘internship’, ‘django.contrib.admin’, ‘django.contrib.auth’, ‘django.contrib.contenttypes’, ‘django.contrib.sessions’, ‘django.contrib.messages’, ‘django.contrib.staticfiles’, ]’‘’ This is my MIDDLEWARE ‘’‘MIDDLEWARE = [ ‘django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware’, ‘django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware’, ‘django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware’, ‘django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware’, ‘django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware’, ‘django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware’, ‘django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware’, ]’‘’ And my TEMPALTES: ‘’‘TEMPLATES = [ { ‘BACKEND’: ‘django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates’, ‘DIRS’: [os.path.join(BASE\_DIR, “templates”)], ‘APP\_DIRS’: True, ‘OPTIONS’: { ‘context\_processors’: [ ‘django.template.context\_processors.debug’, ‘django.template.context\_processors.request’, ‘django.contrib.auth.context\_processors.auth’, ‘django.contrib.messages.context\_processors.messages’, ‘django.template.context\_processors.static’, ], }, }, ]’‘’ ---

**Author:** ![KenWhitesell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/kenwhitesell/32/280_2.png) [@KenWhitesell](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/KenWhitesell)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/messages-is-not-a-registered-tag-library/23980/7 "2023-09-19T12:53:24Z")

Close - you need to use the backtick - ` and not the apostrophe - ', or any type of “smart quotes” from a word processor such as Word. But yes, those lines of ``` must be lines by themselves and not part of any other line. ---

**Author:** ![GrafilIan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/grafilian/32/16021_2.png) [@GrafilIan](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/GrafilIan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/messages-is-not-a-registered-tag-library/23980/8 "2023-09-19T12:55:40Z")

This is my installed apps: ```auto INSTALLED_APPS = [ ‘internship’, ‘django.contrib.admin’, ‘django.contrib.auth’, ‘django.contrib.contenttypes’, ‘django.contrib.sessions’, ‘django.contrib.messages’, ‘django.contrib.staticfiles’, ] ``` This is my MIDDLEWARE ```auto MIDDLEWARE = [ ‘django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware’, ‘django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware’, ‘django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware’, ‘django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware’, ‘django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware’, ‘django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware’, ‘django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware’, ] ``` And my TEMPALTES: ```auto TEMPLATES = [ { ‘BACKEND’: ‘django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates’, ‘DIRS’: [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, “templates”)], ‘APP_DIRS’: True, ‘OPTIONS’: { ‘context_processors’: [ ‘django.template.context_processors.debug’, ‘django.template.context_processors.request’, ‘django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth’, ‘django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages’, ‘django.template.context_processors.static’, ], }, }, ] ``` ---

**Author:** ![KenWhitesell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/kenwhitesell/32/280_2.png) [@KenWhitesell](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/KenWhitesell)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/messages-is-not-a-registered-tag-library/23980/9 "2023-09-19T12:55:56Z")

> [@GrafilIan](#): > > {% load messages %} Why do you think this line is needed? For displaying messages, see the docs at [The messages framework | Django documentation | Django](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/ref/contrib/messages/#displaying-messages) ---

**Author:** ![GrafilIan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/grafilian/32/16021_2.png) [@GrafilIan](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/GrafilIan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/messages-is-not-a-registered-tag-library/23980/10 "2023-09-19T13:16:52Z")

Oh I understand it now. There is no need for me to use the {% load messages %}. I tried to follow the documentation and somehow I see some displays. Now, I just need to figure out how to set it up in my program. Thank you so much Sir.