Been stuck on developing for Wagtail as a beginner. Where to get started?

[M.]

It doesn't fit the proper Q and A format from what I've seen gets typically closed on Stackoverflow so I don't think it's wise to post my question on SO. I've posted on Stackoverflow in the past with Wagtail questions and did not get an answer. Some of those questions I ultimately deleted in shame after a week. 

I want to explain my situation/frustration. I know programming foundational concepts (loops, functions, etc). I can figure out how to build programs that don't rely on a major framework. I want to be able to learn tools/modules better and build projects that are relevant and interesting. I don't know that much about Django and I've done some Flask in the past (for work and a personal project).

I was really excited about Wagtail so I thought it would be a good idea to do a tutorial to get up to speed with Django in order to learn Wagtail and did exactly that. I want to use Wagtail to build my personal website with a portfolio gallery and blog. I have done the stuff on the getting started Wagtail documentation page and have been building my projects on what was covered there. In fact, I created some mock HTML/CSS pages and want to use Wagtail as a CMS with what I had designed in HTML/CSS. I'm at a grind and have been stuck for a long time while trying to figure out my bugs and how to develop for my personal project needs more autonomously.

In summary, I am so stuck that my stuck is stuck. That being said, I'm stuck.. So stuck I thought it would be wise to ask here instead of keeping silent, for the sake of learning and growing.

Before I get too rambly, here are my main questions below:

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I don't get how to build with Wagtail. What are the actual prerequisites for everything to click and to have the intuition as to how to build what I want by using Wagtail? How in depth should I know of those prerequisites?

Secondly, from what I've observed, Wagtail seems like a more abstracted version of Django. Django also seems slightly more intuitive because I see the resemblance to Flask regarding the big picture of serving routes and rendering templates. Regardless, assume on my end little Django knowledge, what is the program flow, or where can I better find resources on understanding the program flow? Ex: How do the pieces fit together? Where do things go and how do they get rendered? This also includes how variables are accessed by and sent from jinja.

[Richard Prosser]

I am new to Wagtail myself after getting fed up with Django CMS and Mezzanine; I am also fairly new to Django but I know Python.

Unfortunately Wagtail is still quite new and there aren't many examples to follow, though there is a tutorial on constructing a blog. There aren't any books either.

It seems to me that you have a lot to learn, about Django as well as Wagtail, or even Python. Trying to do everything yourself is difficult, so you may wish to join a local Python group, if there is one.

Wagtail is very well designed IMO but there is a lot to learn, particularly if you include Django/Python as well. Perhaps you are trying to run before you can walk?

Sorry that I can't offer you a more optimistic response but I think that you will have to just get 'stuck in', or work with someone else in much the same boat.

[Michael Yin]

I have the same question when I first met wagtail, so I created a wagtail tutorial to teach people to build blog step by step.  The source code of the blog created in the tutorials is hosted on github, so you can get the code to hack.

I will continue to write posts in this tutorials, if you have any suggestion, please let me know. 

I would feel great if this tutorial can help you.

https://blog.michaelyin.info/wagtail-tutorials/

[Michael Yin]

You can try this tutorial, I think you will like it.

https://blog.michaelyin.info/wagtail-tutorials/

[M.]

I see you just wrote them. I'll step through it. I assume if there are any questions, I can ask you?

[Michael Yin]

Sure, you can write comment on the blog posts, I will respond ASAP.