Accessing Django settings in your templates

Can easily be done by a template tag:

blog/templatetags/settings_value.py

1from django import template
2from django.conf import settings
3
4register = template.Library()
5
6@register.simple_tag
7def settings_value(name):
8    return getattr(settings, name, "")

In the template, you can use it as follows:

1{% settings_value "SITE_TITLE" %}

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