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Adding a Logout Link to base.html
We’ll add the link for logging out to base.html so it’s available on every 
page. We’ll include it in the 
{% if user.is_authenticated %}
portion so only 
users who are already logged in can see it:
--snip—
{% if user.is_authenticated %}
Hello, {{ user.username }}.
Log out
{% else %}
--snip--
The default named URL pattern for logging out is simply 
'logout'
.
The Logout Confirmation Page
Users will want to know that they’ve successfully logged out, so the default log-
out view renders the page using the template logged_out.html, which we’ll cre-
ate now. Here’s a simple page confirming that the user has been logged out. 
Save this file in templates/registration, the same place where you saved login.html:
{% extends "learning_logs/base.html" %}
{% block content %}
You have been logged out. Thank you for visiting!
{% endblock content %}
We don’t need anything else on this page, because base.html provides 
links back to the home page and the login page if the user wants to go back 
to either page.
Figure 19-5 shows the logged out page as it appears to a user who has 
just clicked the Log out link. The styling is minimal because we’re focusing 
on building a site that works properly. When the required set of features 
works, we’ll style the site to look more professional.
Figure 19-5: The logged out page confirms that a user has successfully logged out.
base.html
logged_out.html

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The Registration Page
Next, we’ll build a page so new users can register. We’ll use Django’s default 
UserCreationForm
but write our own view function and template.