# Why is my templates folder being ignored? **URL:** \ **Category:** Mystery Errors\ **Created:** [November 19, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/why-is-my-templates-folder-being-ignored/25452 "2023-11-19T17:25:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
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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](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/overriding-widgets-templates-not-working-following-help-template-loader-not-searching-app-dirs/12974): > > Using Django 4, [Here](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/forms/renderers/#overriding-built-in-widget-templates-1) 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](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/forms/widgets/#built-in-widgets) for the name of each widget’s template. I.e.: Step 1. Place folder in correct namespaced dir And [here](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/forms/renderers/#templatessetting) explains how to perform the next steps: 'dj… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/why-is-my-templates-folder-being-ignored/25452)._