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Getting Started With Your First Home Page

Learn how to work with Wagtails default Home Page class, and how to extend it with a simple Django model field. WE'll also explore a custom template and how to extend it.

The Final Code

``` {# templates/home/home_page.html #} {% block content %} {{ self.banner_title }} {% endblock %} ```
``` # home/models.py from django.db import models from wagtail.core.models import Page from wagtail.admin.edit_handlers import FieldPanel class HomePage(Page): """Home page model.""" templates = "home/home_page.html" max_count = 1 banner_title = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=False, null=True) content_panels = Page.content_panels + [ FieldPanel("banner_title") ] class Meta: verbose_name = "Home Page" verbose_name_plural = "Home Pages" ```

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