diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d24ec37b5..9bbcbbf4d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 All enhancements and patches to cookiecutter-django will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## [2015-11-11]
+### Added
+- Added django_coverage_plugin to measure Django template coverage (@audreyr)
+
 ## [2015-11-09]
 ### Changed
 - Now using py.test for our test suite!! (@hackebrot)
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/.coveragerc b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/.coveragerc
index 0354b3c19..525cd2ff0 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/.coveragerc
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/.coveragerc
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 [run]
 include = {{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/*
 omit = *migrations*, *tests*
+plugins =
+    django_coverage_plugin
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/requirements/local.txt b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/requirements/local.txt
index 883903ba0..a9b63d442 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/requirements/local.txt
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/requirements/local.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Local development dependencies go here
 -r base.txt
 coverage==4.0.2
+django_coverage_plugin==1.0
 Sphinx
 django-extensions==1.5.9
 Werkzeug==0.10.4
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/requirements/test.txt b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/requirements/test.txt
index 6d70d4bc6..b12b4d231 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/requirements/test.txt
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/requirements/test.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ psycopg2==2.6.1
 {%- endif %}
 
 coverage==4.0.2
+django_coverage_plugin==1.0
 flake8==2.5.0
 django-test-plus==1.0.9
 factory_boy==2.6.0