Getting the name (Verbose Name) of a model or object from a template

Suppose we have an example model like this:

from django.db import models

class Snippet(models.Model):

    ....

    class Meta:
        verbose_name = 'Snippet'
        verbose_name_plural = 'Snippets'

And there was a need to display a verbose name (Verbose Name) in Django templates.

If you try to do it the same way as in Python code, {{ object._meta.verbose_name }} will fail, because the Django template engine does not give access to the private _meta object.

But to solve the problem, you can make a simple template filter.

Create a templatetags/my_tags.py file that contains the following code:

from django import template
register = template.Library()


@register.filter
def verbose_name(obj):
    return obj._meta.verbose_name


@register.filter
def verbose_name_plural(obj):
    return obj._meta.verbose_name_plural

Now you can display the model name in templates using this filter:

{% load my_tags %}
{{ object|verbose_name }}
{{ object|verbose_name_plural }}

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