SEO and Django with title and description tags

Question

I have a base.html for the base template for my files. I have a tag inside it where I define both title & description tags.
I also have my home page that is home.html and it doesn't need a specific title or description a general one is enough .
I also have detail.html used for blog posts and I try to improve the seo with this

 :<meta name="description"
 content="{{ blog.formatted_summary|striptags }}">

<title>{{ blog.title|safe }}</title>

I am  defining both title and description twice and I can't think why that would be a good idea. How do I insert the title and description into the base.html so if it is a blog post that I can specify to take the body or the summary as a description without defining the properties again?

Answer 1

The best solution for this is to configure base.html template to search for custom header data in the template that leverage base.html

for an example you can add this in your base.html

<title>{% block title %}{% endblock %}</title>

Then, in your home.html file,

{% block title %}Homepage Title{% endblock %}

And in detail pages you can dynamically update titles with something like this:

{% block title %}Organization Name - {{ object.some_varyable_from_query }}{% endblock %}