🚀 Dive into Wagtail CMS Web Development in Just One Week! 🚀

Ever dreamed of mastering Wagtail CMS, Django, and Python to create stunning websites? Your journey begins here!

🌟 What’s Wagtail, you ask? 🌟

Wagtail CMS is the Python universe's superstar 🌈, standing as the #1 content management system! If you're nodding at the mention of WordPress, think of Wagtail as its Python-powered sibling – but cooler 😎. It's a playground for web developers, minus the chaos of users installing random features that could mess up your masterpiece.

🔥 What's on the Learning Menu? 🔥

Our adventure won’t cover everything under the sun 🌞, but we’ve got a juicy selection of essentials. Frontend work? We’re leaving that masterpiece in your artistic hands 🎨.

• Day 1: Kickoff with Installing Wagtail & Home Page Edits 🏁
• Day 2: Spice Up Your Home Page with Custom Model Fields 🌶️
• Day 3: Craft a New Page Type with a Snazzy Custom Template 📃
• Day 4: Master the Art of Adding Images with Auto Thumbnail Magic 🖼️
• Day 5: Snippets Creation & Making Them Selectable on Your Page 📌
• Day 6: Elevate Your Page with StreamFields 🌊
• Day 7: Introduce Global Site Settings for That Final Touch 🌍

🎉 Course Structure Unveiled: 🎉

Embark on a 7-day voyage with "7 Days of Wagtail". Tackle a module a day, and by next week, you’ll be the proud owner of a dazzling Wagtail website to flaunt 🎈.

For the ambitious souls 🌟, binge-watch all our lessons and zoom through the course in a day!

Are you ready to unleash your web development superpowers? Let’s make some digital magic happen! 🚀👩‍💻👨‍💻

Course lessons

• 1. Day 1. Installing Wagtail and Editing the Home Page

  We'll get a new Wagtail website installed and start editing the home page right away.

  8m 28s

• 2. Day 2. Adding custom model fields to your Home Page

  We'll editing the Home Page and add custom fields to start making great use of a content management system.

  8m

• 3. Day 3. Creating a new page type with a custom template

  We'll create a new Django app with a brand new Wagtail page type. Moving forward we'll use this page to learn new things and experiment with.

  11m 57s

• 4. Day 4. How to add images to your pages with auto-thumbnailing

  Images are important to make a modern website. During day 4 we'll add a new image to our custom page and make use of Wagtail's built-in thumbnailing feature

  9m 29s

• 5. Day 5. How to create snippets and make them selectable on your page

  We'll create a standard Django model called Author and "enable" it as a Wagtail snippet. Then we'll allow our custom page to choose this Author in an intuitive and user-friendly way.

  16m 50s

• 6. Day 6. Adding StreamFields to your page

  A StreamField is how we can add custom content to a page and mix-and-match it so every page can be a little bit different. This is a core Wagtail principle we'll tackle during day 6 of 7 days of Wagtail.

  16m 45s

• 7. Day 7. Adding global site settings

  The last thing we'll tackle are global site settings. And in day 7 we'll add a global Instagram link to the footer of ALL our web pages.

  9m 44s