[Django]-Django Loading Templates with Inheritance from Specific Directory

In your templates/standard/bishop/browse.html template you’re doing the following:

{% extends "base.html" %}

This refers to templates/base.html and not templates/standard/bishop/base.html. By default Django will check your installed applications as well as the template directories that you specified under TEMPLATE_DIRS in settings.py.

This behavior is specified by TEMPLATE_LOADERS in settings.py:

• http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#template-loaders
• http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#loader-types

You might be able to get away with what you’re trying to do by creating your own template loader, otherwise simply specify the actual path to base.html:

{% extends "standard/bishop/base.html" %}