I’ve been working on something(s) recently involving fetching data from an API and using it in a Wagtail site. I came to the point when I was struggling to test the API request without actually requesting the live API. Why? Well, sites can go down, take to long to respond…
I was trying to figure out a way to call a JavaScript function using values from the request object. It turns out, Django has a built-in template filter for this…
As an example, I’m going to add some data by overriding the get_context() method on a basic HomePage model (line…
Let’s look at a basic example of migrating content from a Drupal site to a Wagtail site. This post explains how to prepare your Drupal data for exporting and how to write a content importer for Wagtail so moving won’t be the most stressful time of your life.
If you’ve ever found yourself working in the Drupal front-end, you will have at some point searched for help on ‘Overriding templates’. It’s a legacy pattern that Drupal just can’t shake. With Drupal 8 we saw some big front-end improvements. …
Since writing my last post 6 things I learned whilst moving a Drupal 8 site to my first Wagtail site, I’ve got my feet wet, well soaked actually, with Wagtail and now is a good time to pause and expand on why I thought switching to Wagtail after 5 years…
First off… A brief introduction to Wagtail and Why(tail)
Wagtail is an open source CMS written in Python and built on the Django framework. Built by developers for developers, it offers a fast attractive interface for editors where content can be created and structured intuitively.
Chances are you’ve heard of Drupal and Wordpress. In the past I’ve also used…
What do words look like as colours? What would Shakespear’s sonnets look like as colours? This mini project renders text as colours using Python and saves them in a grid as an image.
What is this?
It started as a bit of fun late one night on codepen, toying with ways to make…
