Doing it right in Django - subclassing instead of hacking

Question

I am using the threadedcomments module and need two changes: - an additional field on the ThreadedComment model - different fields on the form

I know the answer is to subclass but I'm not sure how to go about doing this - where does the code go?

Answer 1

As its not clear from you question. I am assuming you are talking about extending django.contrib.comments .

Yes you have to subclass it. Create your own application, and all code (extended models, forms, views etc.) goes there.

Important things, you wont add django.contrib.comments in INSTALLED_APPS list, but add your comment application name(which you inherit from django.contrib.comments).

Also you would need to add

COMMENTS_APP = 'my_comment_app'

to your settings.py

Here is very good example for doing exactly what you want to do.