How can I get the reverse url for a Django Flatpages template

Question

How can I get the reverse url for a Django Flatpages template

Answer 1

None of the solutions mentioned sufficiently followed the DRY principle in my opinion, so I just did this:

# core/templatetags/hacks.py

from django import template

register = template.Library()

@register.simple_tag
def flaturl(title):
    """
        Returns the url for a flatpage based on the title.
        NOTE: Obviously the title must be unique.
    """

    from django.contrib.flatpages.models import FlatPage

    try:
        page = FlatPage.objects.get(title=title)
    except:
        return ""

    return page.url

Then in any template that needs to make a link, I did this:

{% load hacks %}
...
Page Title

I might add some caching in there to keep the performance up, but this works for me.