Installation

At the command line:

$ easy_install django-active-link

Or, if you have virtualenvwrapper installed:

$ mkvirtualenv django-active-link
$ pip install django-active-link

Add active_link to your INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'active_link',
    ...
)

Make sure django.template.context_processors.request is added in your template context_processors:

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        "BACKEND": "django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates",
        "DIRS": (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "templates"),),
        "APP_DIRS": True,
        "OPTIONS": {
            "context_processors": [
                # Insert your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS here or use this
                # list if you haven't customized them:
                "django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
                "django.template.context_processors.request",
                "django.template.context_processors.debug",
                "django.template.context_processors.i18n",
                "django.template.context_processors.media",
                "django.template.context_processors.static",
                "django.template.context_processors.tz",
                "django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages",
            ],
            "debug": True,
        },
    },
]

That’s it. You can start using Django Active Link in your templates.