Third-party tutorials
The following list is a collection of tutorials and development notes
from third-party developers. Some of the older links may not apply to
the latest Wagtail versions.
- Adding Wagtail to a Django project to support content (29 September 2024)
- A simple block pattern for Wagtail CMS (29 August 2024)
- Django and Wagtail site building comparison tutorial video (9 July 2024)
- An introduction to Wagtail tutorial (17 June 2024)
- Unleashing the Power of Custom Wagtail Models (9 June 2024)
- Deploying Wagtail on Divio (~June 2024)
- Upgrading Wagtail (from 2.5 to 6.0) (18 April 2024)
- Using Wagtail Form Templates in Software Development Projects (9 April 2024)
- Build an Intuitive Link StructBlock in Wagtail: Simplifying Link Management for Content Editors (9 March 2024)
- Improving Wagtail Richtext Block Revision Diffing (6 March 2024)
- Wagtail StreamField - Propagating the
required
Attribute on Nested Blocks (20 February 2024)
- An overview of a Wagtail website stack (15 February 2024)
- Efficient Cascading Choices in Wagtail Admin: A Smart Chooser Panel Solution (27 January 2024)
- How to add an edit link to
wagtail-autocomplete
items (30 January 2024)
- Programmatically Creating a Wagtail page with StreamField (19 December 2023)
- Adding reCAPTCHA V3 to Wagtail's Form Builder Pages (19 December 2023)
- Guide for managing a complex multi-tenancy setup with Wagtail (1 November 2023)
- Wagtail tutorial video series, getting started through to e-commerce integration with PayPal (1 November 2023)
- Integrating Next.js and Wagtail: Building a Headless, Content-Driven Website (21 October 2023)
- Wagtail tutorial video series, building a blog (1 October 2023)
- Deploy Wagtail CMS to PythonAnywhere using git push to a bare repo (27 September 2023)
- Building a custom Django command to check all admin pages are loading correctly in Wagtail (1 September 2023)
- Integrating ChatGPT with Wagtail for efficient content generation (15 August 2023)
- Creating Wagtail StreamField StructBlocks with a Customised Editor Interface (9 July 2023)
- Wagtail on Cloud Run (26 June 2023)
- How to create a custom Wagtail CMS page type? (29 June 2023)
- Create Stylish Wagtail Pages with Tailwind CSS (15 June 2023)
- Backup and Restore a Wagtail CMS website (26 May 2023)
- A guide for updating Wagtail CMS (22 May 2023)
- Creating Custom Choosers with Viewsets (18 April 2023)
- Build a Website Without Any Coding with Traleor (& Wagtail) in Just 10 Minutes (video) (19 March 2023)
- Getting Started with Wagtail: A Beginner’s Installation Guide (Windows) (9 March 2023)
- Introduction to Stimulus in Wagtail for contributors (video) (28 February 2023)
- How to pick a good Wagtail package (1 February 2023)
- Dockerized Wagtail 4 + NuxtJS 3 + Graphene 3 + Vuetify 3 (with template) (26 January 2023)
- Wagtail: Extending the Draftail Editor Part 4 - Custom Lists (29 December 2022)
- Making Wagtail pages more SEO friendly with Wagtail Metadata (24 December 2022)
- Configuring a Dynamic Sitemap on Wagtail (22 December 2022)
- Deploying Wagtail to Google's Cloud Run (7 December 2022)
- Tutorial: Build a Wagtail blog in 20 minutes (5 December 2022)
- Headless Wagtail and Next.js preview mode (25 November 2022)
- A Step-by-Step Guide on Installing the Wagtail Codebase on a Local Machine for Contribution (video) (19 November 2022)
- How we created the new Wagtail.org (16 November 2022)
- Build a Blog With Wagtail CMS (4.0.0) Released (7 November 2022)
- Create a custom Wagtail Image filter for Thumbnails with Preserved Edges (4 November 2022)
- Static-Dynamic Content With In-Memory SQLite using Wagtail (3 November 2022)
- A Step-by-Step Guide for Manually Setting up Bakery Demo with Wagtail (18 November 2022)
- Integrating Sa11y accessibility checker into a Wagtail website (video) (26 October 2022)
- Wagtail: Extending the Draftail Editor Part 3 - Dynamic Text (21 October 2022)
- What's this? A new website? - Explainer for building a new website with Wagtail (10 October 2022)
- Guide to integrate Wagtail CRX with a Snipcart storefront (9 October 2022)
- Adding featured events to the HomePage with Wagtail 4.0 (video) (6 October 2022)
- Wagtail: Extending the Draftail Editor Part 2 - Block Styles (5 October 2022)
- Wagtail: Extending the Draftail Editor Part 1 - Inline Styles (5 October 2022)
- Creating an interactive event budgeting tool within Wagtail (4 October 2022)
- Configuring Rich Text Blocks for Your Wagtail Site (26 September 2022)
- Deploy Django Wagtail to Render (23 September 2022)
- Using a migration to apply permissions to Wagtail snippets (7 September 2022)
- Deploying a Wagtail site to Fly.io - Part 1 of 5 (30 August 2022)
- Django Wagtail CMS | Building A Blog In 20 Minutes (video) (12 August 2022)
- Hosting a Wagtail site on Digital Ocean with CapRover (21 July 2022)
- Add Heading Blocks with Bookmarks in Wagtail (5 July 2022)
- Import files into Wagtail (2 July 2022)
- Adding MapBox Blocks to Wagtail Stream Fields (19 June 2022)
- 5 Tips to Streamline Your Wagtail CMS Development (14 June 2022)
- Wagtail 3 Upgrade: Per Site Features (2 June 2022)
- Wagtail 3 Upgrade: Per User FieldPanel Permissions (1 June 2022)
- Upgrading to Wagtail 3.0 (3 May 2022)
- Django for E-Commerce: A Developers Guide (with Wagtail CMS Tutorial) - Updated (21 March 2022)
- How to install Wagtail on Ubuntu 20.04|22.04 (1 March 2022)
- Building a blog with Wagtail (tutorial part 1 of 2) (27 February 2022); part 2 of 2 (6 March 2022)
- Creating a schematic editor within Wagtail CMS with StimulusJS (20 February 2022)
- Adding Placeholder Text to Wagtail Forms (11 February 2022)
- Deploying a Wagtail 2.16 website to Heroku (9 February 2022)
- Build an E-Commerce Site with Wagtail CMS, Bootstrap & Django Framework (7 February 2022)
- Complex Custom Field Pagination in Django (Wagtail) (3 February 2022)
- How to Connect Wagtail and React (31 January 2022)
- Wagtail: Dynamically Adding Admin Menu Items (25 January 2022)
- Headless Wagtail, what are the pain points? (with solutions) (24 January 2022)
- A collection of UIKit components that can be used as a Wagtail StreamField block (14 January 2022)
- Introduction to Wagtail CMS (1 January 2022)
- How to make Wagtail project have good coding style (18 December 2021)
- Wagtail: The Django newcomer - German (13 December 2021)
- Create a Developer Portfolio with Wagtail Part 10: Dynamic Site Settings (3 December 2021)
- Dockerize Wagtail CMS for your development environment (29 November 2021)
- How To Add an Email Newsletter to Wagtail (25 November 2021)
- Dealing with UNIQUE Fields on a Multi-lingual Site (6 November 2021)
- General Wagtail Tips & Ticks (26 October 2021)
- Branching workflows in Wagtail (12 October 2021)
- Wagtail is the best python CMS in our galaxy - Russian (12 October 2021)
- Adding Tasks with a Checklist to Wagtail Workflows (22 September 2021)
- How to create a Zen (Focused) mode for the Wagtail CMS admin (5 September 2021)
- Deploying Wagtail on Divio (~September 2021)
- How to Install Wagtail on Shared Hosting without Root (CPanel) (26 August 2021)
- Django for E-Commerce: A Developers Guide (with Wagtail CMS Tutorial) (26 August 2021)
- How to create a Kanban (Trello style) view of your ModelAdmin data in Wagtail (20 August 2021)
- eBook: The Definitive Guide to Next.js and Wagtail (19 August 2021)
- How to build an interactive guide for users in the Wagtail CMS admin (19 August 2021)
- Add Custom User Model (with custom fields like phone no, profile picture) to django or wagtail sites (16 August 2021)
- File size limits in Nginx and animated GIF support (14 August 2021)
- Deploying Wagtail site on Digital Ocean (11 August 2021)
- Multi-language Wagtail websites with XLIFF (21 June 2021)
- Add & Configure Mail in Django (or Wagtail) using Sendgrid (28 May 2021)
- Advanced Django Development: How to build a professional CMS for any business? (3 part tutorial) (2 April 2021)
- Matomo Analytics with WagtailCMS (31 March 2021)
- Dockerizing a Wagtail App (16 March 2021)
- Deploying Wagtail on CentOS8 with MariaDB/Nginx/Gunicorn (7 March 2021)
- How to add a List of Related Fields to a Page (6 March 2021)
- Wagtail -
get_absolute_url
, without domain (3 March 2021)
- How To Alternate Blocks in Your Django & Wagtail Templates (19 February 2021)
- Build a Blog With Wagtail CMS (second version) (13 January 2021)
- Migrate your Wagtail Website from wagtailtrans to the new wagtail-localize (10 January 2021)
- How to Use the Wagtail CMS for Django: An Overview (21 December 2020)
- Wagtail
modeladmin
and a dynamic panels list (14 December 2020)
- Install and Deploy Wagtail CMS on pythonanywhere.com (14 December 2020)
- Overriding the admin CSS in Wagtail (4 December 2020)
- Migrating your Wagtail site to a different database engine (3 December 2020)
- Wagtail for Django Devs: Create a Developer Portfolio (30 November 2020)
- Create a Developer Portfolio with Wagtail Tutorial Series (11 November 2020)
- Wagtail Instagram New oEmbed API (5 November 2020)
- Image upload in Wagtail forms (21 October 2020)
- Adding a timeline of your Wagtail Posts (18 September 2020)
- How to create amazing SSR website with Wagtail 2 + Vue 3 (1 September 2020)
- Migrate Wagtail Application Database from SQLite to PostgreSQL (5 June 2020)
- How to Build Scalable Websites with Wagtail and Nuxt (14 May 2020)
- Wagtail multi-language and internationalization (8 April 2020)
- Wagtail SEO Guide (30 March 2020)
- Adding a latest-changes list to your Wagtail site (27 March 2020)
- How to support multi-language in Wagtail CMS (22 February 2020)
- Deploying my Wagtail blog to Digital Ocean Part 1 of a 2 part series (29 January 2020)
- How to Create and Manage Menus of Wagtail application - An updated overview of implementing menus (22 February 2020)
- Adding a React component in Wagtail Admin - Shows how to render an interactive timeline of published Pages (30 December 2019)
- Wagtail API - how to customise the detail URL (19 December 2020)
- How to Add Django Models to the Wagtail Admin (27 August 2019)
- How do I Wagtail - An Editor\'s Guide for Mozilla\'s usage of Wagtail (25 April 2019)
- Learn Wagtail - Regular video tutorials about all aspects of Wagtail (1 March 2019)
- How to add buttons to ModelAdmin Index View in Wagtail CMS (23 January 2019)
- Wagtail Tutorial Series (20 January 2019)
- How to Deploy Wagtail to Google App Engine PaaS (Video) (28 December 2018)
- How To Prevent Users From Creating Pages by Page Type (25 October 2018)
- How to Deploy Wagtail to Jelastic PaaS (11 October 2018)
- Basic Introduction to Setting Up Wagtail (15 August 2018)
- E-Commerce for Django developers (with Wagtail shop tutorial) (5 July 2018)
- Supporting StreamFields, Snippets and Images in a Wagtail GraphQL API (14 June 2018)
- Wagtail and GraphQL (19 April 2018)
- Wagtail and Azure storage blob containers (29 November 2017)
- Building TwilioQuest with Twilio Sync, Django [incl. Wagtail], and Vue.js (6 November 2017)
- Upgrading from Wagtail 1.0 to Wagtail 1.11 (19 July 2017)
- Wagtail-Multilingual: a simple project to demonstrate how multilingual is implemented (31 January 2017)
- Wagtail: 2 Steps for Adding Pages Outside of the CMS (15 February 2016)
- Deploying Wagtail to Heroku (15 July 2015)
- Adding a Twitter Widget for Wagtail's new StreamField (2 April 2015)
- Working With Wagtail: Menus (22 January 2015)
- Upgrading Wagtail to use Django 1.7 locally using vagrant (10 December 2014)
- Wagtail redirect page. Can link to page, URL and document (24 September 2014)
- Outputting JSON for a model with properties and db fields in Wagtail/Django (24 September 2014)
- Bi-lingual website using Wagtail CMS (17 September 2014)
- Wagtail CMS -- Lesser known features (12 September 2014)
- Wagtail notes: stateful on/off hallo.js plugins (9 August 2014)
- Add some blockquote buttons to Wagtail CMS' WYSIWYG Editor (24 July 2014)
- Adding Bread Crumbs to the front end in Wagtail CMS (1 July 2014)
- Extending hallo.js using Wagtail hooks (9 July 2014)
- Wagtail notes: custom tabs per page type (10 May 2014)
- Wagtail notes: managing redirects as pages (10 May 2014)
- Wagtail notes: dynamic templates per page (10 May 2014)
- Wagtail notes: type-constrained PageChooserPanel (9 May 2014)
You can also find more resources from the community on Awesome Wagtail.
Tip
We are working on a collection of Wagtail tutorials and best practices.
Please share your Wagtail HOWTOs, development notes, or site launches in the Wagtail Slack workspace in #watercooler, or feel free to reach out directly via email.