🚀 Wagtailify Your Static Website: A Free Course! 🚀

Are you ready to transform your static site into a dynamic Wagtail masterpiece? Dive into our free course, "Wagtailify Your Static Website," and unleash the full potential of your web development skills! 🌟

What You'll Learn:

• Local Setup: Get your local environment ready for Wagtail magic. 🎩✨
• Project Dissection: Break down the project into templates and then into code-able chunks, making complex designs simple. 🔪🧩
• Global Components: Set up global components for site-wide consistency. 🌍🔧
• Navigation: Add sleek navigation with template tags. 🧭
• Social Media Links: Integrate social media icons with global site settings. 📱💬
• Custom Pages & Django Apps Creation: Tailor your site with custom pages and new Django apps. 📄🚀
• Child Pages: Learn the art of managing child pages. 👶📚
• StreamField Basics: Get a taste of StreamField for flexible content. 🌊📝
• Snippets & Orderables: Play with snippets and orderables to enhance functionality. 🎉
• Template Reuse & Code Management: Reuse components and keep your codebase clean and efficient. 🔄♻️
• Pagination: Learn how to add pagination to keep your content organized. 🔢📖
• Contact Page: Create a contact page with an email option to connect with your audience. 📧❤️

Project Time! 🛠️

1. Your Own 'Projects' Section: Apply what you’ve learned to build a 'Projects' section on your site.
2. Frontend Styling Challenges: Tackle the tricky frontend features that Wagtail offers.

Perfect for:

• Aspiring Wagtail Enthusiasts who know a tad about Wagtail but crave more! 🐦🤓
• Developers eager to transform their static sites into dynamic Wagtail wonders. 🔄🌐

Just Bring:

• An internet connection 🌐
• A computer with command line access 💻
• A sprinkle of Python knowledge (OOP is a cherry on top! 🍒)

Why This Course? 🌈

It's fun, light-hearted, and packed with practical skills to Wagtailify your website! You’ll not only learn the ins and outs of Wagtail but also get to apply these skills in real-world projects.

So, are you ready to Wagtailify your static website? Let’s get coding and have some fun along the way! 🎉👩‍💻👨‍💻

Course lessons

• 1. Installing Wagtail

  Learn how to install Wagtail using a virtual environment.

• 2. Visualizing the Project

  Learn how to dissect a static website into Wagtail Pages to help guide your project in the right direction.

• 3. Setting up the Base Wagtail Project

  Learn how to setup your base.html file with a global navigation, footer, and customizable content.

• 4. Global Navigation using a Templatetag

  Learn how to write a Django template tag to create a global navigation component for your new website.

• 5. Global Social Media Settings

  Learn how to add customizable social media links and icons to your Wagtail website.

• 6. Custom Logo and Website Name

  Learn how to swap out your default logo for one that you can upload in your Wagtail Admin dashboard.

• 7. Converting the Home Page to Wagtail (Part 1)

  Learn how to convert the first half of the home page into a dynamically controlled Wagtail Page.

• 8. Converting the Home Page to Wagtail (Part 2)

  Learn how to add the bottom half of the home page to your Wagtail website, including repeating content from other parts of your website.

• 9. Starting a New Internal Wagtail App

  Learn how to create a new Wagtail/Django app, and set it up so it can list other content in the template.

• 10. Child Pages and StreamField Introduction

  Learn how to create Child Pages in Wagtail, along with customizable mix-and-match content fields called "StreamFields".

• 11. Simple Wagtail StreamFields

  Learn more about Wagtail StreamFields in their most simple form for dynamic, mix-and-match content in your Wagtail Pages.

• 12. Wagtail Snippets & Repeating Objects (Orderables)

  Learn how to create a "Wagtail" snippet (re-usable data objects) and how to select multiple snippets in a wagtail page (repeating objects).

• 13. Reusing Template Components in Wagtail

  Learn how to re-use template components in your Wagtail website so you can manage less code, and enjoy more free time.

• 14. How to Add Pagination in Wagtail

  Learn how to add Pagination in your Wagtail/Django project.

• 15. Adding a Miscellaneous Page Type

  Learn how to add a "misc" Wagtail Page that has a wide range of uses.

• 16. Wagtail Contact Pages (with email capabilities)

  Learn how to add a Contact Page that is ready to send emails when it's filled out.

• 17. Cleaning Up Your Wagtail Website Codebase

  Learn which files you can safely delete in your project so far.

• 18. Your Final Project(s)

  Use what you've learned up until this point. Everything you need to know has been covered in previous lessons. Experiment, break things, and fix them!