Lesson 4: User Authentication – Because Not Everyone Should Have Access to Your Blog’s Inner Sanctum

Hello again, code wizards! 🧙‍♂️ By now, you’ve built a blog, enabled comments, and maybe even gotten feedback like “Nice font choice” (or “Why Comic Sans?”). But today, we’re taking things up a notch—because not everyone should have VIP access to your blog’s inner sanctum.

Today, we’re going to sprinkle some login and logout magic. And to make everything look polished, we’ll introduce a base template (base.html) to structure your pages uniformly. Plus, we’ll ensure a logout redirect, so users don’t end up in limbo after they exit the VIP area.