heymonkeyriot / beginner-wagtail

A super simple implementation of Wagtail CMS

Beginner Wagtail Cookiecutter

This is a cookiecutter template for an example Wagtail site.

It's a commented, simple implementation of Wagtail styled around a basic company website. It is designed to demonstrate

• Relationships between pages (ManyToMany and OneToMany relationships)
• A global StreamField
• Use of Snippets
• Lots of Lords of the Rings geekery

What's included

This Cookiecutter project includes

• Wagtail
• Vagrant configuration that uses the torchbox/wagtail base box
• Heroku configuration (including an example .env file)
• Example apps: home, people, skills and locations

Installation

The Cookiecutter project can be built with the following commands

# Install Cookiecutter
- pip install cookiecutter
- cookiecutter https://github.com/heymonkeyriot/beginner-wagtail.git
# You'll be prompted to give the project a name
# You'll be prompted to give the repository a name
- cd {{your_project_name}}
- vagrant up

Note: The first time you run vagrant up it will likely take around 15 minutes to install the Wagtail Vagrant base box.

Please refer to {{your_project_name}}/readme.md for information on installing and running Wagtail once the Cookiecutter has been installed.

Example screens

Homepage with loaded data

Location index page with loaded data

People index page with loaded data

Person page with loaded data

Skills index page with loaded data

Absolutely out-of-the-box admin area screen

Troubleshooting

Name of Cookiecutter project

You can't name your project abc. It conflicts with name spacing in /lib/python3.4/io.py