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Sam Houston
Sam Houston

Reputation: 3651

Wagtail adding new pages

My current way of adding new pages to my wagtail site is the following:

  1. Edit the installed apps to include my new page

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
  'home',
  'anotherpage',
  'newpage', # this is new

  'wagtail.wagtailforms',
  ...
]

  2. Copy the format of anotherpage to be my newpage

    cp -rf  anotherpage newpage

  3. Edit my newpage/models.py references to anotherpage to be newpage. E.g.

    class Anotherpage(Page):

    becomes

    class Newpage(Page):

And the newpage/migrations/0001_initial.py references

Rename: mv feedback/templates/info feedback/templates/feedback

and mv feedback/templates/feedback/info_page.html feedback/templates/feedback/feedback_page.html

etc

Then run python manage.py makemigrations

Then python manage.py migrate

Question

This workflow feels quite inefficient, is there a better way to be doing any of the above?

I'm new to python and wagtail. Any insight on what I could be doing better would be greatly appreciated

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1255

Answers (1)

gasman
gasman

Reputation: 25227

You don't have to create a new INSTALLED_APPS entry and app folder for every new page model you create - a single models.py file can contain as many page models as you like. Generally I'd recommend one app for each major area of your site - for example, you could have a blog app containing BlogPage, BlogIndex and BlogArchive page types. You can even define the page models for your entire site in a single app if you want - although that can get hard to maintain when the file grows very large.

This way, creating a new page model just involves adding the class Newpage(Page): definition to the existing models.py, running ./manage.py makemigrations, and adding a new template into the existing template directory.

Additionally, when you do decide to create a new app, you can make use of the ./manage.py startapp some_app_name command to save having to create files and folders manually.

Upvotes: 3

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