How to specify order of template loading in Django?

Question

So I have upgraded an old project from Django 1.6 to 1.10, and now all templatse from a specific directory are no longer loading.

the location of these templates are in

/project/templates/userena

these templates should be overriding the templates included with the userena library in

/usr/local/bin/python2.7/dist-packages/userena

I have read the Django documentation for template loading but it does not make sense to me at all.

Currently my settings.py has this

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [
                        os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'),
                ],
        'APP_DIRS': False,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'debug': DEBUG,
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
            'loaders': [
                'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
                'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
            ],
        },
    },
]

What do I need to change in my settings.py in order to have Django load templates from /project/templates/userena?

Answer 1

Django uses the template loaders in order according to the 'loaders' option. It uses each loader until a loader finds a match. (docs).

So, yes, ordering matters.