The Ultimate Wagtail Developers Course
This course covers everything from basic installation to advanced features like custom blocks and API integration, it's perfect for developers looking to enhance their skills with this powerful CMS.
Tutorial Wagtail Version: 2.x
In the Wagtail Admin, we can change what the Pages are called in the Wagtail Page Explorer. This isn't a super popular feature, but it's good to know that this is possible.
Let's just dive right into this. It's a simple 2-liner, but it can pack a punch. Check it out!
All this is doing is changing the default get_admin_display_title()
The default for this method is to return a draft title, if there is one, or return the regular page title. Here's what it normally looks like:
Like most things in Wagtail, it's ultra simple. And that's just one of the things that makes Wagtail such an amazing content management system: no crazy bloat.
Need a refresher, or just want to copy and paste some code? The Learn Wagtail repo is a good place to start! And this particular commit can be found here: https://github.com/CodingForEverybody/learn-wagtail/commit/6109533ac446884158ea9811f1a34d18071e5ed1
Happy coding!
Headless CMS: Exposing Custom Page Fields to the v2 API
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In the last lesson we enabled Wagtails v2 API but we didn't have access to our custom fields.. yet! In this lesson we'll learn how in just 4 lines of code we can make a custom Wagtail Page field show up in our API. And it only gets easier from there.
Getting Child Page Properties From a Subclassed Page
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In Wagtail, and just like in Django, you can subclass classes. In this lesson, we're subclassing a Wagtail Page into 2 child pages. But when we query for all the parent classes, we're also given the child classes in the QuerySet, and the data is somewhat inconsistent because child classes can have unique fields that differ from their parents and siblings.
Adding a Banner (Part 1)
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Every modern website has a banner. Often it comes with a title, subtitle, an image and an optional call to action button. In this tutorial we're going to add all 4 of those to our Home Page. Includes:
Customizing Default Property Values
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In this tutorial we are going to learn how to customize default Wagtail Page properties by changing the default help text and field verbose names. We'll also learn how to set a new default field value when you create a new Wagtail Page.
This course covers everything from basic installation to advanced features like custom blocks and API integration, it's perfect for developers looking to enhance their skills with this powerful CMS.