eBooks
I started writing blog posts about Wagtail CMS since 2017, some content and code might be a little outdated.
You can check the ebooks below to get the latest learning resources maintained by me.
- Build Blog With Wagtail CMS (second version): This book will teach you how to build a modern blog with Wagtail CMS
- Build SPA with React and Wagtail: This book will teach you how to build a SPA (single-page application) with React and Wagtail CMS
- Build Blog with React (SSR) and Wagtail: This book will teach you how to build a blog with React, Wagtail CMS and SSR (Server-Side Rendering), which has good performance and good SEO.
The above ebooks build three projects which have similar features, but in different way. They can also help you have better understanding of the modern frontend tech and infrastructure.
Table of Contents:
Review
- Python CMS Framework Review: Wagtail vs Django-CMS In this Python CMS review article, I will talk and compare `Django CMS` and `Wagtail CMS`, the two most popular CMS frameworks in Python world.
Tutorials
- Create Wagtail Project Create a Wagtail project with wagtail start and understand how it works
- Dockerizing Wagtail App We will use Docker Compose to create and manage Wagtail, Postgres services, and do local development.
- Add Blog Models to Wagtail Learn how to add Blog Models such as BlogPage, PostPage, Category, Tag to Wagtail, and why we need ParentalKey
- How to write Wagtail page template Write Wagtail page template and debug in terminal with PDB.
- Add Bootstrap Theme to Wagtail We will Import Bootstrap theme to Wagtail project
- Wagtail Tutorials #4: Routable Page In this Wagtail blog tutorial, I will show you how to use RoutablePageMixin to make blog app routable, so it can handle sub-URLs like category and tag links.
- Wagtail Tutorials #5: Customize Blog Post URL In this wagtail tutorial, I will show you how to customize the permanent link of post page, and how to reverse the blog post link in the template.
- Wagtail Tutorials #7: Add Search Function In Wagtail Blog In this wagtail tutorial, I will teach you how to add search function in wagtail blog so the user can filter the posts through the keywords.
- Wagtail Tutorials #8: Add Markdown Support In Wagtail Blog In this wagtail tutorial, I will show you how to add Markdown support to our wagtail blog.
- Wagtail Tutorials #9: Add LaTeX Support & Code Highlight In Wagtail In this tutorial, I will talk about how to add Latex support and code highlight support in our wagtail blog application.
- Wagtail Tutorials #10: Add Comment Support In Wagtail Blog In this chapter, I will talk about how to add comment support to our Wagtail Blog.
- Wagtail Tutorial #11: How to use StreamField in Wagtail I will talk about the StreamField feature of Wagtail in detail and I must say StreamField is one of the most amazing features in Wagtail.
- Wagtail Tutorial #12: How to Create and Manage Menus of Wagtail application We would learn how menu in Wagtail works, and how to create a powerful menu using wagtailmenus package.
Advanced Features
- How to do A/B Testing in Wagtail CMS In this Wagtail tutorial, I will show you how to do split testing (A/B testing) in Wagtail CMS.
- How to build form page in Wagtail I will teach you how to build form page using Wagtail's FormBuilder.
- How to build a landing page using Wagtail CMS In this Wagtail CMS tutorial, I will teach you how to build a simple landing page using Wagtail
- How to make your Wagtail/Django project have good Python coding style In this Wagtail tutorial, I will teach you how to check coding style for your Wagtail/Django project, how to fix it and how to keep it clean and concise.
- How to support multi-language in Wagtail CMS In this blog post, I will talk about how to support multi-language in Wagtail CMS
- Wagtail SEO Guide In this Wagtail tutorial, I would talk about something which can help SEO in Wagtail
Wagtail Tips
- Wagtail Tip #1: How to replace ParentalManyToManyField with InlinePanel In this Wagtail tip, I will talk about How to replace `ParentalManyToManyField` using Wagtail InlinePanel
- Wagtail Tip #2: How to Export & Restore Wagtail Site You will learn how to how to export & restore wagtail site using Django dumpdata & loaddata command
Write theme for Wagtail project
I have seen many people are still using old CSS to add style to their Wagtail projects.
So I wrote some posts to help them write SCSS instead of CSS in Wagtail projects, I think SCSS is better and I strongly recommend you to give it a try.
- How to use SCSS/SASS in your Django project (Python Way) In this blog post, I will talk about how to use SCSS/SASS in your Django project with Python package.
- How to use SCSS/SASS in your Django project (NPM Way) In this blog post, I will talk about how to use SCSS/SASS in your Django project with NPM.
How to deploy your Wagtail project
- How to deploy Wagtail project to Heroku with Docker I will show you how to use Docker to deploy your project on Heroku, you can also use the code to deploy Wagtail on AWS if you prefer.
- How to deploy Django project to Dokku In this Dokku tutorial, I will talk about how to deploy Django project with Dokku, it would use Postgres db and Amazon S3 to store data and media files.
- How to deploy Django project to Dokku with Docker In this post, I will talk about how to deploy Django project to Dokku with Docker.
