An opinionated Wagtail setup bundled as a Divio Cloud Addon.
This package will auto-configure Wagtail including some extra tools.
- Login to the Divio Cloud Control Panel.
- Add new Project
This will redirect you to the Add new Project creation screen. In addition to choosing a Name for your project, the following options are required to get started with the guide:
- Creation: New
- Region: Choose United States or European Union
- Python: Python 2.7.x or Python 3.x
- Type: Wagtail
- Boilerplates: Blank Boilerplate
Hit Create Project and continue to the project’s Dashboard.
Install and launch the Divio App.
Select your project and hit Setup to get started. The Divio App will run through a number of processes to set up the local project. It all happens automatically and takes just a few minutes.
Once this process has completed, you can actually start the local site by getting the local server running. Select Start to launch it. To open the local site in your browser, click the eye icon.
This will open your project in your default browser. You should see the Wagtail welcome page.
Hit Divio Shell, and in a few moments you'll be in a terminal shell session, ready to work with your project from the command line.
Wagtail requires you to create a new application containing your new page type, based on its provided Page class.
(From this point onwards, we're following more or less the same steps described in the Extend the HomePage model section in the official Wagtail documentation. We're using the Divio Shell, so some operations are slightly different, but the general idea should be familiar if you have used Wagtail already.)
Change into your project's directory to work there, and create a new Django Application:
docker-compose run --rm web python manage.py startapp homeThis will generate a Django application called home, located in the project directory.
Add your application to Django's INSTALLED_APPS settings. Open up settings.py inside the project root in your preferred code editor and replace:
INSTALLED_APPS.extend([
# add your project specific apps here
]with:
INSTALLED_APPS.extend([
# add your project specific apps here
'home',
])We need to extend the HomePage model. Open home/models.py and replace the entire file with:
from __future__ import unicode_literals
from django.db import models
from wagtail.wagtailcore.models import Page
from wagtail.wagtailcore.fields import RichTextField
from wagtail.wagtailadmin.edit_handlers import FieldPanel
class HomePage(Page):
body = RichTextField(blank=True)
content_panels = Page.content_panels + [
FieldPanel('body', classname="full")
]Now we need to create database migrations for our application, so Django knows which tables and fields need to be added to the database. In the Terminal, run:
docker-compose run --rm web python manage.py makemigrations homeNow run the migrations, to apply the changes to the database:
docker-compose run --rm web python manage.py migrate homeIn the folder templates/home/, add a file named home_page.html to create a template:
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% load wagtailcore_tags %}
{% block body_class %} template-homepage {% endblock %}
{% block content %}
{{ page.body | richtext }}
{% endblock %}We also need to create a base template. In the folder templates, add a file base.html:
{% load wagtailuserbar %}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<!-- The above 3 meta tags *must* come first in the head; any other head content must come *after* these tags --> <title>{% block title %}{% if self.seo_title %}{{ self.seo_title }}{% else %}{{ self.title }}{% endif %}{% endblock %}{% block title_suffix %}{% endblock %}</title>
<!-- Bootstrap -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-1q8mTJOASx8j1Au+a5WDVnPi2lkFfwwEAa8hDDdjZlpLegxhjVME1fgjWPGmkzs7" crossorigin="anonymous">
<!-- HTML5 shim and Respond.js for IE8 support of HTML5 elements and media queries -->
<!-- WARNING: Respond.js doesn't work if you view the page via file:// -->
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/html5shiv/3.7.2/html5shiv.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/respond/1.4.2/respond.min.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
{% block extra_css %}
{# Override this in templates to add extra stylesheets #}
{% endblock %}
</head>
<body class="{% block body_class %}{% endblock %}"> {# Override this block to set custom body classes on a template by template basis #}
{% wagtailuserbar %}
<div class="main container">
{% block heading %}
<div class="page-header">
<h1>{{ self.title }}</h1>
</div>
{% endblock %}
{% block content %}{% endblock %}
</div>
<!-- jQuery (necessary for Bootstrap's JavaScript plugins) -->
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<!-- Include all compiled plugins (below), or include individual files as needed -->
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-0mSbJDEHialfmuBBQP6A4Qrprq5OVfW37PRR3j5ELqxss1yVqOtnepnHVP9aJ7xS" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
{% block extra_js %}
{# Override this in templates to add extra javascript #}
{% endblock %}
</body>
</html>- Login to the Django admin at
/django-adminin your site. Create a new user by hitting Add user, then sign in. (Learn more about how this works.) - In the Wagtail admin at
/admin/pages/, add a new page by clicking Add Child Page - Add a title and some content and hit Publish
- Set the page as a root page in the Wagtail admin by going to Settings > Sites > localhost
/admin/sites. Select the localhost site. - In the Root Page row select Choose a different Root Page and find the new sub-page of it that we just created
- Hit Save to continue.
Finally, go to your site - In the Wagtail Explorer, find your page and hit the Live button to see the published page.
You've now created a new Django Wagtail site on Divio Cloud, deployed it locally in the Divio Shell, configured it at the Python level, and started editing it. The next step is to push your changes to the Divio CLoud, and deploy them there.
See our Developer tutorialto become properly familiar with the system and what you can do with it.
This is a community project. We be delighted to get any feedback in the form of issues and pull requests.
Divio does not offer support for Wagtail itself. Please check out wagtail.io for help.