Why is my templates folder being ignored?

[Spidiffpaffpuff]

Thank you Ken for clearing things up. I read over the manual passages a couple of times and still wasn’t sure whether there are several template rendering engines. Now I know for sure. Unfortunately, ‘django.template.backends.django.TemplatesSetting’ does not work.

ImportError: Module “django.template.backends.django” does not define a “TemplatesSetting” attribute/class

I’m using Django 4.1. I found TemplatesSetting in django.forms.renderers.TemplatesSetting. When I used that path I end up with:

TypeError: TemplatesSetting() takes no arguments

I found another thread on that, but it’s unanswered.

Overriding Widgets templates not working (following help), template loader not searching app dirs

Using Django 4, Here it explains how to override a widget template: Each widget has a template_name attribute with a value such as input.html . Built-in widget templates are stored in the django/forms/widgets path. You can provide a custom template for input.html by defining django/forms/widgets/input.html , for example. See Built-in widgets for the name of each widget’s template. I.e.: Step 1. Place folder in correct namespaced dir And here explains how to perform the next steps: 'dj…