How to bind post authors (in mini blogs) in django models?

Question

Django

In general, there is a post model:

class Post(models.Model):

    author = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    title = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    text = models.TextField()
    created_date = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now)
    published_date = models.DateTimeField(blank=True, null=True)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.title

    def get_absolute_url(self):
        return reverse('post-detail', args=[str(self.id)])

    def publish(self):
        self.published_date = timezone.now()
        self.save()

    class Meta:
        ordering = ['published_date']

How can I make it so that any user can add any author to himself and, accordingly, display only their posts?

Answer 1

As an option to inherit from the User model and add ManyToManyField to itself

сlass CustomUser(User):
    preferred_author = models.ManyToManyField('self', symmetrical=False, related_name='preferred', ...)

When the user selects a new author, simply add
Next when filtering to display all articles of the authors selected by the user
Where SELECTED_USER is the user for which you want to display articles.
I wrote the code from my head, so I can’t vouch for the accuracy, more for an example