Wagtail for Beginners

This course is designed for developers who are new to Wagtail CMS. Together, we’ll create a brand new Wagtail website from scratch, and at the end we’ll deploy it to the web. Here’s a preview of the final website: Rocketman

Note: This course assumes you have a basic understanding of Python. If you know some Django, that’s great, but not required.

If you’re unsure whether this course is for you or not, consider the follow topics we’ll be covering together, and if you’re unfamiliar or not completely comfortable with all of these subjects then it’s likely this course is for you. Here’s what we’ll be learning:

Installation
You’ll learn how to install Wagtail using venv and Pipenv
Create 7 custom
Including services, misc pages, testimonials, StreamFields, a custom menu, contact pages, and global site settings
Contact pages
Creating the initial page and the landing page
Customizing contact form options
StreamFields
Basic StreamFields
Repeating StreamFields
Custom StreamField validation
Table blocks
Reusing StreamField components
Adding additional logic to StreamFields
2 ways to create StreamFields
Custom pages
Page validation
Custom page fields
Working with images and foreign keys to other models
Create listing pages to automatically populate content as soon as you create a new page
Caching
How to speed up your website with caching
How to delete caching when you save a page or model
Create a custom menu
You’ll create a sortable menu system from scratch
You’ll be introduced to Orderables and Clusterable Models
Register the menu with Wagtails ModelAdmin
Create a custom Django template tag to work with your menu templates
Create Django models
Use Wagtail as the main admin interface
How to turn Django models into reusable pieces of data (Wagtail snippets)
Create custom site settings
You’ll make site settings globally accessible
Cache these settings
And delete cache when the values are updated
Custom image cropping and renditions
And .webp image support
Creating a sitemap
2 super helpful debugging tools
My personal methods for learning Wagtail quickly and efficiently
Launch your website on a brand new server
Using Digital Ocean and Ubuntu 18 with Nginx and Gunicorn
Install an error monitoring service for your live website
And here are some bonuses this course comes with:

All the source code
The frontend build tools to customize the theme
A sample nginx config
Sample gunicorn files
If you think you could benefit from a course like this, definitely enroll today and let’s get started.