wagtail/docs/reference/hooks.md

(admin_hooks)=

Hooks

On loading, Wagtail will search for any app with the file wagtail_hooks.py and execute the contents. This provides a way to register your own functions to execute at certain points in Wagtail's execution, such as when a page is saved or when the main menu is constructed.

Hooks are typically used to customize the view-level behavior of the Wagtail admin and front-end.
For customizations that only deal with model-level behavior - such as calling an external service when a page or document is added - it is often better to use [Django's signal mechanism](inv:django#topics/signals) (see also: [Wagtail signals](signals)), as these are not dependent on a user taking a particular path through the admin interface.

Registering functions with a Wagtail hook is done through the @hooks.register decorator:

from wagtail import hooks

@hooks.register('name_of_hook')
def my_hook_function(arg1, arg2...)
    # your code here

Alternatively, hooks.register can be called as an ordinary function, passing in the name of the hook and a handler function defined elsewhere:

hooks.register('name_of_hook', my_hook_function)

If you need your hooks to run in a particular order, you can pass the order parameter. If order is not specified then the hooks proceed in the order given by INSTALLED_APPS. Wagtail uses hooks internally, too, so you need to be aware of order when overriding built-in Wagtail functionality (such as removing default summary items):

@hooks.register('name_of_hook', order=1)  # This will run after every hook in the wagtail core
def my_hook_function(arg1, arg2...)
    # your code here

@hooks.register('name_of_hook', order=-1)  # This will run before every hook in the wagtail core
def my_other_hook_function(arg1, arg2...)
    # your code here

@hooks.register('name_of_hook', order=2)  # This will run after `my_hook_function`
def yet_another_hook_function(arg1, arg2...)
    # your code here

Unit testing hooks

Hooks are usually registered on startup and can't be changed at runtime. But when writing unit tests, you might want to register a hook function just for a single test or block of code and unregister it so that it doesn't run when other tests are run.

You can register hooks temporarily using the hooks.register_temporarily function, this can be used as both a decorator and a context manager. Here's an example of how to register a hook function for just a single test:

def my_hook_function():
    pass

class MyHookTest(TestCase):

    @hooks.register_temporarily('name_of_hook', my_hook_function)
    def test_my_hook_function(self):
        # Test with the hook registered here
        pass

And here's an example of registering a hook function for a single block of code:

def my_hook_function():
    pass

with hooks.register_temporarily('name_of_hook', my_hook_function):
    # Hook is registered here
    ..

# Hook is unregistered here

If you need to register multiple hooks in a with block, you can pass the hooks in as a list of tuples:

def my_hook(...):
    pass

def my_other_hook(...):
    pass

with hooks.register_temporarily([
    ('hook_name', my_hook),
    ('hook_name', my_other_hook),
]):
    # All hooks are registered here
    ..

# All hooks are unregistered here

The available hooks are listed below.

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Admin modules

Hooks for building new areas of the admin interface (alongside pages, images, documents, and so on).

(construct_homepage_panels)=

construct_homepage_panels

Add or remove panels from the Wagtail admin homepage. The callable passed into this hook should take a request object and a list of panel objects and should modify this list in place as required. Panel objects are [](template_components) with an additional order property, an integer that determines the panel's position in the final ordered list. The default panels use integers between 100 and 300.

from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe

from wagtail.admin.ui.components import Component
from wagtail import hooks

class WelcomePanel(Component):
    order = 50

    def render_html(self, parent_context):
        return mark_safe("""
        <section class="panel summary nice-padding">
          <h3>No, but seriously -- welcome to the admin homepage.</h3>
        </section>
        """)

@hooks.register('construct_homepage_panels')
def add_another_welcome_panel(request, panels):
    panels.append(WelcomePanel())

(construct_homepage_summary_items)=

construct_homepage_summary_items

Add or remove items from the 'site summary' bar on the admin homepage (which shows the number of pages and other object that exist on the site). The callable passed into this hook should take a request object and a list of summary item objects and should modify this list in-place as required. Summary item objects are instances of wagtail.admin.site_summary.SummaryItem, which extends the Component class with the following additional methods and properties:

  .. method:: SummaryItem(request)

    Constructor; receives the request object its argument

  .. attribute:: order

    An integer that specifies the item's position in the sequence.

  .. method:: is_shown()

    Returns a boolean indicating whether the summary item should be shown on this request.

(construct_main_menu)=

construct_main_menu

Called just before the Wagtail admin menu is output, to allow the list of menu items to be modified. The callable passed to this hook will receive a request object and a list of menu_items, and should modify menu_items in-place as required. Adding menu items should generally be done through the register_admin_menu_item hook instead - items added through construct_main_menu will not have their is_shown check applied.

from wagtail import hooks

@hooks.register('construct_main_menu')
def hide_explorer_menu_item_from_frank(request, menu_items):
  if request.user.username == 'frank':
    menu_items[:] = [item for item in menu_items if item.name != 'explorer']

(describe_collection_contents)=

describe_collection_contents

Called when Wagtail needs to find out what objects exist in a collection, if any. Currently, this happens on the confirmation before deleting a collection, to ensure that non-empty collections cannot be deleted. The callable passed to this hook will receive a collection object, and should return either None (to indicate no objects in this collection), or a dict containing the following keys:

• count - A numeric count of items in this collection
• count_text - A human-readable string describing the number of items in this collection, such as "3 documents". (Sites with multi-language support should return a translatable string here, most likely using the django.utils.translation.ngettext function.)
• url (optional) - A URL to an index page that lists the objects being described.

register_account_settings_panel

Registers a new settings panel class to add to the "Account" view in the admin.

This hook can be added to a subclass of BaseSettingsPanel. For example:

from wagtail.admin.views.account import BaseSettingsPanel
from wagtail import hooks

@hooks.register('register_account_settings_panel')
class CustomSettingsPanel(BaseSettingsPanel):
    name = 'custom'
    title = "My custom settings"
    order = 500
    form_class = CustomSettingsForm

Alternatively, it can also be added to a function. For example, this function is equivalent to the above:

from wagtail.admin.views.account import BaseSettingsPanel
from wagtail import hooks

class CustomSettingsPanel(BaseSettingsPanel):
    name = 'custom'
    title = "My custom settings"
    order = 500
    form_class = CustomSettingsForm

@hooks.register('register_account_settings_panel')
def register_custom_settings_panel(request, user, profile):
    return CustomSettingsPanel(request, user, profile)

More details about the options that are available can be found at [](custom_account_settings).

(register_account_menu_item)=

register_account_menu_item

Add an item to the "More actions" tab on the "Account" page within the Wagtail admin. The callable for this hook should return a dict with the keys url, label, and help_text. For example:

from django.urls import reverse
from wagtail import hooks

@hooks.register('register_account_menu_item')
def register_account_delete_account(request):
    return {
        'url': reverse('delete-account'),
        'label': 'Delete account',
        'help_text': 'This permanently deletes your account.'
    }

(register_admin_menu_item)=

register_admin_menu_item

Add an item to the Wagtail admin menu. The callable passed to this hook must return an instance of wagtail.admin.menu.MenuItem. New items can be constructed from the MenuItem class by passing in a label which will be the text in the menu item, and the URL of the admin page you want the menu item to link to (usually by calling reverse() on the admin view you've set up). Additionally, the following keyword arguments are accepted:

• name - an internal name used to identify the menu item; defaults to the slugified form of the label.
• icon_name - icon to display against the menu item; no defaults, optional, but should be set for top-level menu items so they can be identified when collapsed.
• classname - additional classes applied to the link.
• order - an integer that determines the item's position in the menu.

For menu items that are only available to superusers, the subclass wagtail.admin.menu.AdminOnlyMenuItem can be used in place of MenuItem.

MenuItem can be further subclassed to customize its initialization or conditionally show or hide the item for specific requests (for example, to apply permission checks); see the source code (wagtail/admin/menu.py) for details.

from django.urls import reverse

from wagtail import hooks
from wagtail.admin.menu import MenuItem

@hooks.register('register_admin_menu_item')
def register_frank_menu_item():
  return MenuItem('Frank', reverse('frank'), icon_name='folder-inverse', order=10000)

(register_admin_urls)=

register_admin_urls

Register additional admin page URLs. The callable fed into this hook should return a list of Django URL patterns which define the structure of the pages and endpoints of your extension to the Wagtail admin. For more about vanilla Django URLconfs and views, see url dispatcher.

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.urls import path

from wagtail import hooks

def admin_view(request):
  return HttpResponse(
    "I have approximate knowledge of many things!",
    content_type="text/plain")

@hooks.register('register_admin_urls')
def urlconf_time():
  return [
    path('how_did_you_almost_know_my_name/', admin_view, name='frank'),
  ]

(register_admin_viewset)=

register_admin_viewset

Register a {class}~wagtail.admin.viewsets.base.ViewSet or {class}~wagtail.admin.viewsets.base.ViewSetGroup to the admin, which combines a set of views, URL patterns, and menu item into a single unit. The callable fed into this hook should return an instance of ViewSet or ViewSetGroup.

from .views import CalendarViewSet

@hooks.register("register_admin_viewset")
def register_viewset():
    return CalendarViewSet()

Alternatively, it can also return a list of ViewSet or ViewSetGroup instances.

from .views import AgendaViewSetGroup, VenueViewSet

@hooks.register("register_admin_viewset")
def register_viewsets():
    return [AgendaViewSetGroup(), VenueViewSet()]

(register_group_permission_panel)=

register_group_permission_panel

Add a new panel to the Groups form in the 'settings' area. The callable passed to this hook must return a ModelForm / ModelFormSet-like class, with a constructor that accepts a group object as its instance keyword argument, and which implements the methods save, is_valid, and as_admin_panel (which returns the HTML to be included on the group edit page).

(register_settings_menu_item)=

register_settings_menu_item

As register_admin_menu_item, but registers menu items into the 'Settings' sub-menu rather than the top-level menu.

(construct_settings_menu)=

construct_settings_menu

As construct_main_menu, but modifies the 'Settings' sub-menu rather than the top-level menu.

(register_reports_menu_item)=

register_reports_menu_item

As register_admin_menu_item, but registers menu items into the 'Reports' sub-menu rather than the top-level menu.

(construct_reports_menu)=

construct_reports_menu

As construct_main_menu, but modifies the 'Reports' sub-menu rather than the top-level menu.

(register_help_menu_item)=

register_help_menu_item

As register_admin_menu_item, but registers menu items into the 'Help' sub-menu rather than the top-level menu.

(construct_help_menu)=

construct_help_menu

As construct_main_menu, but modifies the 'Help' sub-menu rather than the top-level menu.

(register_admin_search_area)=

register_admin_search_area

Add an item to the Wagtail admin search "Other Searches". The behavior of this hook is similar to register_admin_menu_item. The callable passed to this hook must return an instance of wagtail.admin.search.SearchArea. New items can be constructed from the SearchArea class by passing the following parameters:

• label - text displayed in the "Other Searches" option box.
• name - an internal name used to identify the search option; defaults to the slugified form of the label.
• url - the URL of the target search page.
• classname - additional CSS classes applied to the link.
• icon_name - icon to display next to the label.
• attrs - additional HTML attributes to apply to the link.
• order - an integer which determines the item's position in the list of options.

Setting the URL can be achieved using reverse() on the target search page. The GET parameter 'q' will be appended to the given URL.

A template tag, search_other is provided by the wagtailadmin_tags template module. This tag takes a single, optional parameter, current, which allows you to specify the name of the search option currently active. If the parameter is not given, the hook defaults to a reverse lookup of the page's URL for comparison against the url parameter.

SearchArea can be subclassed to customize the HTML output, specify JavaScript files required by the option, or conditionally show or hide the item for specific requests (for example, to apply permission checks); see the source code (wagtail/admin/search.py) for details.

from django.urls import reverse
from wagtail import hooks
from wagtail.admin.search import SearchArea

@hooks.register('register_admin_search_area')
def register_frank_search_area():
    return SearchArea('Frank', reverse('frank'), icon_name='folder-inverse', order=10000)

(register_permissions)=

register_permissions

Return a QuerySet of Permission objects to be shown in the Groups administration area.

  from django.contrib.auth.models import Permission
  from wagtail import hooks


  @hooks.register('register_permissions')
  def register_permissions():
      app = 'blog'
      model = 'extramodelset'

      return Permission.objects.filter(content_type__app_label=app, codename__in=[
          f"view_{model}", f"add_{model}", f"change_{model}", f"delete_{model}"
      ])

(register_user_listing_buttons)=

register_user_listing_buttons

Add buttons to the user list.

This hook takes two parameters:

• user: The user object to generate the button for
• request_user: The currently logged-in user

This example will add a simple button to the listing if the currently logged-in user is a superuser:

from wagtail.users.widgets import UserListingButton

@hooks.register("register_user_listing_buttons")
def user_listing_external_profile(user, request_user):
    if request_user.is_superuser:
        yield UserListingButton(
            "Show profile",
            f"/goes/to/a/url/{user.pk}",
            priority=30,
        )

6.2
The hook function was updated to accept a `request_user` argument instead of `context`.

(filter_form_submissions_for_user)=

filter_form_submissions_for_user

Allows access to form submissions to be customized on a per-user, per-form basis.

This hook takes two parameters:

• The user attempting to access form submissions
• A QuerySet of form pages

The hook must return a QuerySet containing a subset of these form pages which the user is allowed to access the submissions for.

For example, to prevent non-superusers from accessing form submissions:

from wagtail import hooks


@hooks.register('filter_form_submissions_for_user')
def construct_forms_for_user(user, queryset):
    if not user.is_superuser:
        queryset = queryset.none()

    return queryset

Editor interface

Hooks for customizing the editing interface for pages and snippets.

(register_rich_text_features)=

register_rich_text_features

Rich text fields in Wagtail work with a list of 'feature' identifiers that determine which editing controls are available in the editor, and which elements are allowed in the output; for example, a rich text field defined as RichTextField(features=['h2', 'h3', 'bold', 'italic', 'link']) would allow headings, bold / italic formatting, and links, but not (for example) bullet lists or images. The register_rich_text_features hook allows new feature identifiers to be defined - see [](rich_text_features) for details.

(insert_global_admin_css)=

insert_global_admin_css

Add additional CSS files or snippets to all admin pages.

from django.utils.html import format_html
from django.templatetags.static import static

from wagtail import hooks

@hooks.register('insert_global_admin_css')
def global_admin_css():
    return format_html('<link rel="stylesheet" href="{}">', static('my/wagtail/theme.css'))

(insert_editor_js)=

insert_editor_js

Add additional JavaScript files or code snippets to the page editor.

from django.utils.html import format_html_join
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
from django.templatetags.static import static

from wagtail import hooks

@hooks.register('insert_editor_js')
def editor_js():
    js_files = [
        'js/fireworks.js', # https://fireworks.js.org
    ]
    js_includes = format_html_join('\n', '<script src="{0}"></script>',
        ((static(filename),) for filename in js_files)
    )
    return js_includes + mark_safe(
        """
        <script>
            window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', (event) => {
                var container = document.createElement('div');
                container.style.cssText = 'position: fixed; width: 100%; height: 100%; z-index: 100; top: 0; left: 0; pointer-events: none;';
                container.id = 'fireworks';
                document.getElementById('main').prepend(container);
                var options = { "acceleration": 1.2, "autoresize": true, "mouse": { "click": true, "max": 3 } };
                var fireworks = new Fireworks(document.getElementById('fireworks'), options);
                fireworks.start();
            });
        </script>
        """
    )

(insert_global_admin_js)=

insert_global_admin_js

Add additional JavaScript files or code snippets to all admin pages.

from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe

from wagtail import hooks

@hooks.register('insert_global_admin_js')
def global_admin_js():
    return mark_safe(
        '<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/three.js/r74/three.js"></script>',
    )

(register_page_header_buttons)=

register_page_header_buttons

Add buttons to the secondary dropdown menu in the page header. This works similarly to the register_page_listing_buttons hook.

This example will add a simple button to the secondary dropdown menu:

from wagtail.admin import widgets as wagtailadmin_widgets

@hooks.register('register_page_header_buttons')
def page_header_buttons(page, user, view_name, next_url=None):
    yield wagtailadmin_widgets.Button(
        'A dropdown button',
        '/goes/to/a/url/',
        priority=60
    )

The arguments passed to the hook are as follows:

• page - the page object to generate the button for
• user - the logged-in user
• view_name - either index or edit, depending on whether the button is being generated for the page listing or edit view
• next_url - the URL that the linked action should redirect back to on completion of the action, if the view supports it

The priority argument controls the order the buttons are displayed in the dropdown. Buttons are ordered from low to high priority, so a button with priority=10 will be displayed before a button with priority=60.

Editor workflow

Hooks for customizing the way users are directed through the process of creating page content.

(after_create_page)=

after_create_page

Do something with a Page object after it has been saved to the database (as a published page or a revision). The callable passed to this hook should take a request object and a page object. The function does not have to return anything, but if an object with a status_code property is returned, Wagtail will use it as a response object. By default, Wagtail will instead redirect to the Explorer page for the new page's parent.

from django.http import HttpResponse

from wagtail import hooks

@hooks.register('after_create_page')
def do_after_page_create(request, page):
    return HttpResponse("Congrats on making content!", content_type="text/plain")

If you set attributes on a Page object, you should also call save_revision(), since the edit and index view pick up their data from the revisions table rather than the actual saved page record.

  @hooks.register('after_create_page')
  def set_attribute_after_page_create(request, page):
      page.title = 'Persistent Title'
      new_revision = page.save_revision()
      if page.live:
          # page has been created and published at the same time,
          # so ensure that the updated title is on the published version too
          new_revision.publish()

(before_create_page)=

before_create_page

Called at the beginning of the "create page" view passing in the request, the parent page and page model class.

The function does not have to return anything, but if an object with a status_code property is returned, Wagtail will use it as a response object and skip the rest of the view.

Unlike, after_create_page, this is run both for both GET and POST requests.

This can be used to completely override the editor on a per-view basis:

from wagtail import hooks

from .models import AwesomePage
from .admin_views import edit_awesome_page

@hooks.register('before_create_page')
def before_create_page(request, parent_page, page_class):
    # Use a custom create view for the AwesomePage model
    if page_class == AwesomePage:
        return create_awesome_page(request, parent_page)

(after_delete_page)=

after_delete_page

Do something after a Page object is deleted. Uses the same behavior as after_create_page.

(before_delete_page)=

before_delete_page

Called at the beginning of the "delete page" view passing in the request and the page object.

Uses the same behavior as before_create_page, and is run for both GET and POST requests.

from django.shortcuts import redirect
from django.utils.html import format_html

from wagtail.admin import messages
from wagtail import hooks

from .models import AwesomePage


@hooks.register('before_delete_page')
def before_delete_page(request, page):
    """Block awesome page deletion and show a message."""

    if request.method == 'POST' and page.specific_class in [AwesomePage]:
        messages.warning(request, "Awesome pages cannot be deleted, only unpublished")
        return redirect('wagtailadmin_pages:delete', page.pk)

(after_edit_page)=

after_edit_page

Do something with a Page object after it has been updated. Uses the same behavior as after_create_page.

(before_edit_page)=

before_edit_page

Called at the beginning of the "edit page" view passing in the request and the page object.

Uses the same behavior as before_create_page.

(after_publish_page)=

after_publish_page

Do something with a Page object after it has been published via page create view or page edit view.

The function does not have to return anything, but if an object with a status_code property is returned, Wagtail will use it as a response object and skip the rest of the view.

(before_publish_page)=

before_publish_page

Do something with a Page object before it has been published via page create view or page edit view.

The function does not have to return anything, but if an object with a status_code property is returned, Wagtail will use it as a response object and skip the rest of the view.

(after_unpublish_page)=

after_unpublish_page

Called after unpublish action in "unpublish" view passing in the request and the page object.

The function does not have to return anything, but if an object with a status_code property is returned, Wagtail will use it as a response object and skip the rest of the view.

(before_unpublish_page)=

before_unpublish_page

Called before unpublish action in "unpublish" view passing in the request and the page object.

The function does not have to return anything, but if an object with a status_code property is returned, Wagtail will use it as a response object and skip the rest of the view.

(after_copy_page)=

after_copy_page

Do something with a Page object after it has been copied passing in the request, page object, and the new copied page. Uses the same behavior as after_create_page.

(before_copy_page)=

before_copy_page

Called at the beginning of the "copy page" view passing in the request and the page object.

Uses the same behavior as before_create_page.

(after_move_page)=

after_move_page

Do something with a Page object after it has been moved passing in the request and page object. Uses the same behavior as after_create_page.

(before_move_page)=

before_move_page

Called at the beginning of the "move page" view passing in the request, the page object, and the destination page object.

Uses the same behavior as before_create_page.

(before_convert_alias_page)=

before_convert_alias_page

Called at the beginning of the convert_alias view, which is responsible for converting alias pages into normal Wagtail pages.

The request and the page being converted are passed in as arguments to the hook.

The function does not have to return anything, but if an object with a status_code property is returned, Wagtail will use it as a response object and skip the rest of the view.

(after_convert_alias_page)=

after_convert_alias_page

Do something with a Page object after it has been converted from an alias.

The request and the page that was just converted are passed in as arguments to the hook.

The function does not have to return anything, but if an object with a status_code property is returned, Wagtail will use it as a response object and skip the rest of the view.

(construct_translated_pages_to_cascade_actions)=

construct_translated_pages_to_cascade_actions

Return additional pages to process in a synced tree setup.

This hook is only triggered on unpublishing a page when WAGTAIL_I18N_ENABLED = True.

The list of pages and the action are passed in as arguments to the hook.

The function should return a dictionary with the page from the pages list as key, and a list of additional pages to perform the action on. We recommend they are non-aliased, direct translations of the pages from the function argument.

(register_page_action_menu_item)=

register_page_action_menu_item

Add an item to the popup menu of actions on the page creation and edit views. The callable passed to this hook must return an instance of wagtail.admin.action_menu.ActionMenuItem. ActionMenuItem is a subclass of Component and so the rendering of the menu item can be customized through template_name, get_context_data, render_html, and Media. In addition, the following attributes and methods are available to be overridden:

• order - an integer (default 100) that determines the item's position in the menu. Can also be passed as a keyword argument to the object constructor. The lowest-numbered item in this sequence will be selected as the default menu item; as standard, this is "Save draft" (which has an order of 0).
• label - the displayed text of the menu item
• get_url - a method that returns a URL for the menu item to link to; by default, returns None which causes the menu item to behave as a form submit button instead
• name - value of the name attribute of the submit button, if no URL is specified
• icon_name - icon to display against the menu item
• classname - a class attribute value to add to the button element
• is_shown - a method that returns a boolean indicating whether the menu item should be shown; by default, true except when editing a locked page

The get_url, is_shown, get_context_data, and render_html methods all accept a context dictionary containing the following fields:

• view - name of the current view: 'create', 'edit' or 'revisions_revert'
• page - for view = 'edit' or 'revisions_revert', the page being edited
• parent_page - for view = 'create', the parent page of the page being created

• request - the current request object

  from wagtail import hooks
  from wagtail.admin.action_menu import ActionMenuItem
  
  class GuacamoleMenuItem(ActionMenuItem):
  name = 'action-guacamole'
  label = "Guacamole"
  
  def get_url(self, context):
      return "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNJdJIwCF_Y"
  
  
  @hooks.register('register_page_action_menu_item')
  def register_guacamole_menu_item():
  return GuacamoleMenuItem(order=10)
  

(construct_page_action_menu)=

construct_page_action_menu

Modify the final list of action menu items on the page creation and edit views. The callable passed to this hook receives a list of ActionMenuItem objects, a request object and a context dictionary as per register_page_action_menu_item, and should modify the list of menu items in-place.

@hooks.register('construct_page_action_menu')
def remove_submit_to_moderator_option(menu_items, request, context):
    menu_items[:] = [item for item in menu_items if item.name != 'action-submit']

The construct_page_action_menu hook is called after the menu items have been sorted by their order attributes, so setting a menu item's order will have no effect at this point. Instead, items can be reordered by changing their position in the list, with the first item being selected as the default action. For example, to change the default action to Publish:

@hooks.register('construct_page_action_menu')
def make_publish_default_action(menu_items, request, context):
    for (index, item) in enumerate(menu_items):
        if item.name == 'action-publish':
            # move to top of list
            menu_items.pop(index)
            menu_items.insert(0, item)
            break

(construct_wagtail_userbar)=

construct_wagtail_userbar

Add or remove items from the Wagtail user bar. Actions for adding and editing are provided by default. The callable passed into the hook must take the request object and a list of menu objects, items. The menu item objects must have a render method which can take a request object and return the HTML string representing the menu item. See the userbar templates and menu item classes for more information. See also the {class}~wagtail.admin.userbar.AccessibilityItem class for the accessibility checker item in particular.

from wagtail import hooks

class UserbarPuppyLinkItem:
    def render(self, request):
        return '<li><a href="http://cuteoverload.com/tag/puppehs/" ' \
            + 'target="_parent" role="menuitem" class="action">Puppies!</a></li>'

@hooks.register('construct_wagtail_userbar')
def add_puppy_link_item(request, items):
    return items.append( UserbarPuppyLinkItem() )

Admin workflow

Hooks for customizing the way admins are directed through the process of editing users.

(after_create_user)=

after_create_user

Do something with a User object after it has been saved to the database. The callable passed to this hook should take a request object and a user object. The function does not have to return anything, but if an object with a status_code property is returned, Wagtail will use it as a response object. By default, Wagtail will instead redirect to the User index page.

from django.http import HttpResponse

from wagtail import hooks

@hooks.register('after_create_user')
def do_after_create_user(request, user):
    return HttpResponse("Congrats on creating a new user!", content_type="text/plain")

(before_create_user)=

before_create_user

Called at the beginning of the "create user" view passing in the request.

The function does not have to return anything, but if an object with a status_code property is returned, Wagtail will use it as a response object and skip the rest of the view.

Unlike, after_create_user, this is run both for both GET and POST requests.

This can be used to completely override the user editor on a per-view basis:

from django.http import HttpResponse

from wagtail import hooks

from .models import AwesomePage
from .admin_views import edit_awesome_page

@hooks.register('before_create_user')
def do_before_create_user(request):
    return HttpResponse("A user creation form", content_type="text/plain")

(after_delete_user)=

after_delete_user

Do something after a User object is deleted. Uses the same behavior as after_create_user.

(before_delete_user)=

before_delete_user

Called at the beginning of the "delete user" view passing in the request and the user object.

Uses the same behavior as before_create_user.

(after_edit_user)=

after_edit_user

Do something with a User object after it has been updated. Uses the same behavior as after_create_user.

(before_edit_user)=

before_edit_user

Called at the beginning of the "edit user" view passing in the request and the user object.

Uses the same behavior as before_create_user.

Choosers

(construct_page_chooser_queryset)=

construct_page_chooser_queryset

Called when rendering the page chooser view, to allow the page listing QuerySet to be customized. The callable passed into the hook will receive the current page QuerySet and the request object, and must return a Page QuerySet (either the original one or a new one).

from wagtail import hooks

@hooks.register('construct_page_chooser_queryset')
def show_my_pages_only(pages, request):
    # Only show own pages
    pages = pages.filter(owner=request.user)

    return pages

(construct_document_chooser_queryset)=

construct_document_chooser_queryset

Called when rendering the document chooser view, to allow the document listing QuerySet to be customized. The callable passed into the hook will receive the current document QuerySet and the request object, and must return a Document QuerySet (either the original one or a new one).

from wagtail import hooks

@hooks.register('construct_document_chooser_queryset')
def show_my_uploaded_documents_only(documents, request):
    # Only show uploaded documents
    documents = documents.filter(uploaded_by_user=request.user)

    return documents

(construct_image_chooser_queryset)=

construct_image_chooser_queryset

Called when rendering the image chooser view, to allow the image listing QuerySet to be customized. The callable passed into the hook will receive the current image QuerySet and the request object, and must return an Image QuerySet (either the original one or a new one).

from wagtail import hooks

@hooks.register('construct_image_chooser_queryset')
def show_my_uploaded_images_only(images, request):
    # Only show uploaded images
    images = images.filter(uploaded_by_user=request.user)

    return images

Page explorer

(construct_explorer_page_queryset)=

construct_explorer_page_queryset

Called when rendering the page explorer view, to allow the page listing QuerySet to be customized. The callable passed into the hook will receive the parent page object, the current page QuerySet, and the request object, and must return a Page QuerySet (either the original one or a new one).

from wagtail import hooks

@hooks.register('construct_explorer_page_queryset')
def show_my_profile_only(parent_page, pages, request):
    # If we're in the 'user-profiles' section, only show the user's own profile
    if parent_page.slug == 'user-profiles':
        pages = pages.filter(owner=request.user)

    return pages

(register_page_listing_buttons)=

register_page_listing_buttons

Add buttons to the actions list for a page in the page explorer. This is useful when adding custom actions to the listing, such as translations or a complex workflow.

This example will add a simple button to the listing:

from wagtail.admin import widgets as wagtailadmin_widgets

@hooks.register('register_page_listing_buttons')
def page_listing_buttons(page, user, next_url=None):
    yield wagtailadmin_widgets.PageListingButton(
        'A page listing button',
        '/goes/to/a/url/',
        priority=10
    )

The arguments passed to the hook are as follows:

• page - the page object to generate the button for
• user - the logged-in user
• next_url - the URL that the linked action should redirect back to on completion of the action if the view supports it

The priority argument controls the order the buttons are displayed in. Buttons are ordered from low to high priority, so a button with priority=10 will be displayed before a button with priority=20.

(register_page_listing_more_buttons)=

register_page_listing_more_buttons

Add buttons to the "More" dropdown menu for a page in the page explorer. This works similarly to the register_page_listing_buttons hook but is useful for lesser-used custom actions that are better suited for the dropdown.

This example will add a simple button to the dropdown menu:

from wagtail.admin import widgets as wagtailadmin_widgets

@hooks.register('register_page_listing_more_buttons')
def page_listing_more_buttons(page, user, next_url=None):
    yield wagtailadmin_widgets.Button(
        'A dropdown button',
        '/goes/to/a/url/',
        priority=60
    )

The arguments passed to the hook are as follows:

• page - the page object to generate the button for
• user - the logged-in user
• next_url - the URL that the linked action should redirect back to on completion of the action if the view supports it

The priority argument controls the order the buttons are displayed in the dropdown. Buttons are ordered from low to high priority, so a button with priority=10 will be displayed before a button with priority=60.

Buttons with dropdown lists

The admin widgets also provide ButtonWithDropdownFromHook, which allows you to define a custom hook for generating a dropdown menu that gets attached to your button.

Creating a button with a dropdown menu involves two steps. Firstly, you add your button to the register_page_listing_buttons hook, just like in the example above. Secondly, you register a new hook that yields the contents of the dropdown menu.

This example shows how Wagtail's default admin dropdown is implemented. You can also see how to register buttons conditionally, in this case by testing the user's permission with page.permissions_for_user:

from wagtail.admin import widgets as wagtailadmin_widgets

@hooks.register('register_page_listing_buttons')
def page_custom_listing_buttons(page, user, next_url=None):
    yield wagtailadmin_widgets.ButtonWithDropdownFromHook(
        'More actions',
        hook_name='my_button_dropdown_hook',
        page=page,
        user=user,
        next_url=next_url,
        priority=50
    )

@hooks.register('my_button_dropdown_hook')
def page_custom_listing_more_buttons(page, user, next_url=None):
    page_perms = page.permissions_for_user(user)
    if page_perms.can_move():
        yield wagtailadmin_widgets.Button('Move', reverse('wagtailadmin_pages:move', args=[page.id]), priority=10)
    if page_perms.can_delete():
        yield wagtailadmin_widgets.Button('Delete', reverse('wagtailadmin_pages:delete', args=[page.id]), priority=30)
    if page_perms.can_unpublish():
        yield wagtailadmin_widgets.Button('Unpublish', reverse('wagtailadmin_pages:unpublish', args=[page.id]), priority=40)

The template for the dropdown button can be customized by overriding wagtailadmin/pages/listing/_button_with_dropdown.html. Make sure to leave the dropdown UI component itself as-is.

(construct_page_listing_buttons)=

construct_page_listing_buttons

Modify the final list of page listing buttons in the page explorer. The callable passed to this hook receives a list of PageListingButton objects, a page, a user object, and a context dictionary, and should modify the list of listing items in-place.

@hooks.register('construct_page_listing_buttons')
def remove_page_listing_button_item(buttons, page, user, context=None):
    if page.is_root:
        buttons.pop() # removes the last 'more' dropdown button on the root page listing buttons

Page serving

(before_serve_page)=

before_serve_page

Called when Wagtail is about to serve a page. The callable passed into the hook will receive the page object, the request object, and the args and kwargs that will be passed to the page's serve() method. If the callable returns an HttpResponse, that response will be returned immediately to the user, and Wagtail will not proceed to call serve() on the page.

from django.http import HttpResponse

from wagtail import hooks

@hooks.register('before_serve_page')
def block_googlebot(page, request, serve_args, serve_kwargs):
    if request.META.get('HTTP_USER_AGENT') == 'GoogleBot':
        return HttpResponse("<h1>bad googlebot no cookie</h1>")

Document serving

(before_serve_document)=

before_serve_document

Called when Wagtail is about to serve a document. The callable passed into the hook will receive the document object and the request object. If the callable returns an HttpResponse, that response will be returned immediately to the user, instead of serving the document. Note that this hook will be skipped if the WAGTAILDOCS_SERVE_METHOD setting is set to direct.

Snippets

Hooks for working with registered Snippets.

(after_edit_snippet)=

after_edit_snippet

Called when a Snippet is edited. The callable passed into the hook will receive the model instance, the request object. If the callable returns an HttpResponse, that response will be returned immediately to the user, and Wagtail will not proceed to call redirect() to the listing view.

from django.http import HttpResponse

from wagtail import hooks

@hooks.register('after_edit_snippet')
def after_snippet_update(request, instance):
    return HttpResponse(f"Congrats on editing a snippet with id {instance.pk}", content_type="text/plain")

(before_edit_snippet)=

before_edit_snippet

Called at the beginning of the edit snippet view. The callable passed into the hook will receive the model instance, the request object. If the callable returns an HttpResponse, that response will be returned immediately to the user, and Wagtail will not proceed to call redirect() to the listing view.

from django.http import HttpResponse

from wagtail import hooks

@hooks.register('before_edit_snippet')
def block_snippet_edit(request, instance):
    if isinstance(instance, RestrictedSnippet) and instance.prevent_edit:
        return HttpResponse("Sorry, you can't edit this snippet", content_type="text/plain")

(after_create_snippet)=

after_create_snippet

Called when a Snippet is created. after_create_snippet and after_edit_snippet work in identical ways. The only difference is where the hook is called.

(before_create_snippet)=

before_create_snippet

Called at the beginning of the create snippet view. Works in a similar way to before_edit_snippet except the model is passed as an argument instead of an instance.

(after_delete_snippet)=

after_delete_snippet

Called when a Snippet is deleted. The callable passed into the hook will receive the model instance(s) as a list along with the request object. If the callable returns an HttpResponse, that response will be returned immediately to the user, and Wagtail will not proceed to call redirect() to the listing view.

from django.http import HttpResponse

from wagtail import hooks

@hooks.register('after_delete_snippet')
def after_snippet_delete(request, instances):
    # "instances" is a list
    total = len(instances)
    return HttpResponse(f"{total} snippets have been deleted", content_type="text/plain")

(before_delete_snippet)=

before_delete_snippet

Called at the beginning of the delete snippet view. The callable passed into the hook will receive the model instance(s) as a list along with the request object. If the callable returns an HttpResponse, that response will be returned immediately to the user, and Wagtail will not proceed to call redirect() to the listing view.

from django.http import HttpResponse

from wagtail import hooks

@hooks.register('before_delete_snippet')
def before_snippet_delete(request, instances):
    # "instances" is a list
    total = len(instances)

    if request.method == 'POST':
        for instance in instances:
            # Override the deletion behavior
            instance.delete()

        return HttpResponse(f"{total} snippets have been deleted", content_type="text/plain")

(register_snippet_action_menu_item)=

register_snippet_action_menu_item

Add an item to the popup menu of actions on the snippet creation and edit views.

The callable passed to this hook receives the snippet's model class as an argument, and must return an instance of wagtail.snippets.action_menu. ActionMenuItem. ActionMenuItem is a subclass of Component and so the rendering of the menu item can be customized through template_name, get_context_data, render_html and Media. In addition, the following attributes and methods are available to be overridden:

• order - an integer (default 100) which determines the item's position in the menu. Can also be passed as a keyword argument to the object constructor. The lowest-numbered item in this sequence will be selected as the default menu item; as standard, this is "Save draft" (which has an order of 0).
• label - the displayed text of the menu item
• get_url - a method that returns a URL for the menu item to link to; by default, returns None which causes the menu item to behave as a form submit button instead
• name - value of the name attribute of the submit button if no URL is specified
• icon_name - icon to display against the menu item
• classname - a class attribute value to add to the button element
• is_shown - a method that returns a boolean indicating whether the menu item should be shown; by default, true except when editing a locked page

The get_url, is_shown, get_context_data, and render_html methods all accept a context dictionary containing the following fields:

• view - name of the current view: 'create' or 'edit'
• model - the snippet's model class
• instance - for view = 'edit', the instance being edited

• request - the current request object

  from wagtail import hooks
  from wagtail.snippets.action_menu import ActionMenuItem
  
  class GuacamoleMenuItem(ActionMenuItem):
  name = 'action-guacamole'
  label = "Guacamole"
  
  def get_url(self, context):
      return "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNJdJIwCF_Y"
  
  
  @hooks.register('register_snippet_action_menu_item')
  def register_guacamole_menu_item(model):
  return GuacamoleMenuItem(order=10)
  

(construct_snippet_action_menu)=

construct_snippet_action_menu

Modify the final list of action menu items on the snippet creation and edit views. The callable passed to this hook receives a list of ActionMenuItem objects, a request object, and a context dictionary as per register_snippet_action_menu_item, and should modify the list of menu items in-place.

@hooks.register('construct_snippet_action_menu')
def remove_delete_option(menu_items, request, context):
    menu_items[:] = [item for item in menu_items if item.name != 'delete']

The construct_snippet_action_menu hook is called after the menu items have been sorted by their order attributes, so setting a menu item's order will have no effect at this point. Instead, items can be reordered by changing their position in the list, with the first item being selected as the default action. For example, to change the default action to Delete:

@hooks.register('construct_snippet_action_menu')
def make_delete_default_action(menu_items, request, context):
    for (index, item) in enumerate(menu_items):
        if item.name == 'delete':
            # move to top of list
            menu_items.pop(index)
            menu_items.insert(0, item)
            break

(register_snippet_listing_buttons)=

register_snippet_listing_buttons

Add buttons to the actions list for a snippet in the snippets listing. This is useful when adding custom actions to the listing, such as translations or a complex workflow.

This example will add a simple button to the listing:

from wagtail.snippets import widgets as wagtailsnippets_widgets

@hooks.register('register_snippet_listing_buttons')
def snippet_listing_buttons(snippet, user, next_url=None):
    yield wagtailsnippets_widgets.SnippetListingButton(
        'A page listing button',
        '/goes/to/a/url/',
        priority=10
    )

The arguments passed to the hook are as follows:

• snippet - the snippet object to generate the button for
• user - the user who is viewing the snippets listing
• next_url - the URL that the linked action should redirect back to on completion of the action if the view supports it

The priority argument controls the order the buttons are displayed in. Buttons are ordered from low to high priority, so a button with priority=10 will be displayed before a button with priority=20.

(construct_snippet_listing_buttons)=

construct_snippet_listing_buttons

Modify the final list of snippet listing buttons. The callable passed to this hook receives a list of SnippetListingButton objects, the snippet object and a user, and should modify the list of menu items in-place.

@hooks.register('construct_snippet_listing_buttons')
def remove_snippet_listing_button_item(buttons, snippet, user):
    buttons.pop()  # Removes the 'delete' button

Bulk actions

Hooks for registering and customizing bulk actions. See [](custom_bulk_actions) on how to write custom bulk actions.

(register_bulk_action)=

register_bulk_action

Registers a new bulk action to add to the list of bulk actions in the explorer

This hook must be registered with a subclass of BulkAction . For example:

from wagtail.admin.views.bulk_action import BulkAction
from wagtail import hooks


@hooks.register("register_bulk_action")
class CustomBulkAction(BulkAction):
    display_name = _("Custom Action")
    action_type = "action"
    aria_label = _("Do custom action")
    template_name = "/path/to/template"
    models = [...]  # list of models the action should execute upon


    @classmethod
    def execute_action(cls, objects, **kwargs):
        for object in objects:
            do_something(object)
        return num_parent_objects, num_child_objects  # return the count of updated objects

(before_bulk_action)=

before_bulk_action

Do something right before a bulk action is executed (before the execute_action method is called)

This hook can be used to return an HTTP response. For example:

from wagtail import hooks

@hooks.register("before_bulk_action")
def hook_func(request, action_type, objects, action_class_instance):
  if action_type == 'delete':
    return HttpResponse(f"{len(objects)} objects would be deleted", content_type="text/plain")

(after_bulk_action)=

after_bulk_action

Do something right after a bulk action is executed (after the execute_action method is called)

This hook can be used to return an HTTP response. For example:

from wagtail import hooks

@hooks.register("after_bulk_action")
def hook_func(request, action_type, objects, action_class_instance):
  if action_type == 'delete':
    return HttpResponse(f"{len(objects)} objects have been deleted", content_type="text/plain")

Audit log

(register_log_actions)=

register_log_actions

See [](audit_log)

To add new actions to the registry, call the register_action method with the action type, its label and the message to be displayed in administrative listings.

from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _

from wagtail import hooks

@hooks.register('register_log_actions')
def additional_log_actions(actions):
    actions.register_action('wagtail_package.echo', _('Echo'), _('Sent an echo'))

Alternatively, for a log message that varies according to the log entry's data, create a subclass of wagtail.log_actions.LogFormatter that overrides the format_message method, and use register_action as a decorator on that class:

from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _

from wagtail import hooks
from wagtail.log_actions import LogFormatter

@hooks.register('register_log_actions')
def additional_log_actions(actions):
    @actions.register_action('wagtail_package.greet_audience')
    class GreetingActionFormatter(LogFormatter):
        label = _('Greet audience')

        def format_message(self, log_entry):
            return _('Hello %(audience)s') % {
                'audience': log_entry.data['audience'],
            }

Images

(register_image_operations)=

register_image_operations

Called on start-up. Register image operations that can be used to create renditions.

See [](custom_image_filters).