Using Wagtail on cookiecutter-django

[Rasmus Kierudsen]

I'm having a hard time figuring out, how to implement Wagtail CMS into pydanny's cookiecutter-django template. In which folder(s) do I add "installed apps" etc? Cookiecutter-django contains no such file as a "settings.py", but contains several settings-files?

My cookiecutter-django is up and running just fine, but I would really like using Wagtail on top of it.

- yes I'm quite new 

[Matthew Westcott]

Hi Rasmus,
The equivalent of the settings.py file in cookiecutter-django is config/settings/common.py.

However, it seems that they've reorganised things quite considerably from the default Django setup, and you'll probably have a hard time adapting the Wagtail instructions for it unless you have a full understanding of what else they've changed (which probably means reading the Two Scoops Of Django book)...

Cheers,
- Matt

[Tim Allen]

Hi Rasmus, as Matthew pointed out, the settings are in config/settings/common.py. Here's an example of how I set up my settings to bring Wagtail into an existing Django Project:

PREREQ_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',

    'bootstrap3',
]


WAGTAIL_APPS = [
    'compressor',
    'taggit',
    'modelcluster',

    'wagtail.wagtailcore',
    'wagtail.wagtailadmin',
    'wagtail.wagtaildocs',
    'wagtail.wagtailsnippets',
    'wagtail.wagtailusers',
    'wagtail.wagtailimages',
    'wagtail.wagtailembeds',
    'wagtail.wagtailsearch',
    'wagtail.wagtailsites',
    'wagtail.wagtailredirects',
    'wagtail.wagtailforms'
]


WAGTAIL_CONTRIB_APPS = [
    'wagtailbettereditor',
    'wagtailemoji',
    'wagtailfontawesome',
    "wagtail.contrib.table_block",
    'wagtail.contrib.modeladmin'
]


PROJECT_APPS = [
    'users',
    'base_views',
    'registration',
    'formeditor',
]


INSTALLED_APPS = PREREQ_APPS + WAGTAIL_APPS + WAGTAIL_CONTRIB_APPS + PROJECT_APPS

This keeps the different parts of your requirements in separate Python lists, and then combines them. Hopefully this helps clarify how it can be done in common.py.

Regards,

Tim

[Rasmus Kierudsen]

Hi Matthew and Tim

Thanks for your replies.

I've startet reading Two Scoopes of Django - that's gonna take a while:-) But it seems like a really good introduction to the Django framework.

Beside reading, I will give Tim's setup a try. Combining pydanny's "ready to go"-setup with the amazing Wagtail CMS, seems like a winner:-)

Best regards

Rasmus

[Michael Harrison]

I just ran into this package, which looks promising. 

https://github.com/chrisdev/wagtail-cookiecutter-foundation

[Lauren Wood]

On Tuesday, 19 July 2016 14:00:56 UTC-7, Michael Harrison wrote:

I just ran into this package, which looks promising. 

https://github.com/chrisdev/wagtail-cookiecutter-foundation

I've used this cookiecutter and it works well. There's a lot in it, so be prepared to delete a lot of files, but I find that better than not enough.