13 January 2022

Issue #102

Welcome to issue 102 of This Week in Wagtail, a newsletter with weekly updates from the Wagtail core team and community.

This is our first issue in five weeks as it's quiet due to the holidays. This issue covers the last five weeks.

Previous issue: Issue #101

News and Blog Posts

• Blog post WordPress to Wagtail migration kit
• Tweet Work begins on Wagtail's new page editor!
• Blog post The Making of a Museum | M+ Hong Kong
• Adventures on Wagtail The Motley Fool
• Blog post Wagtail developer jobs: where to look
• Blog post An exciting opportunity to help drive the next phase of Wagtail’s growth

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Latest changes

django-modelcluster

• Test against Django 4.0
• Fix tests for django-taggit >= 2.0

wagtail

• Slim sidebar UI and accessibility fixes, plus mobile support
• Redirect to collection listing after editing/deleting an item from it
• feature: Login remember me functionality
• Improve workflow modal formatting
• Add secondary actions menu in edit page headers
• Add UUIDs to ListBlock items (RFC 65)
• Implement UnpublishPageAction and Admin API for un-publishing pages
• Implement PublishPageRevisionAction and admin API for publishing pages
• Implement MovePageAction and admin API for moving pages
• Implement ConvertAliasPageAction and admin API for converting an alias page
• Implement DeletePageAction and admin API for deleting pages
• Solved missing `invert` attribute bug
• add check for correct search_fields on pages
• Update breadcrumb dropdown button style
• Add aria-label to dropdown link
• Add icon-only dropdown class and style it
• Set dropdown font-size directly in dropdown_item class
• Add register_page_header_buttons hook documentation
• Add test for register_page_header_buttons hook
• Display header buttons in page edit breadcrumb
• Add page header buttons hook
• Ensure bulk publish action picks up latest revisions
• Refresh page on create before passing to hooks
• Fix: Define default_app_config only for Django < 3.2
• Remove woff fonts
• update stylelint & config-stylelint-wagtail
• Set default_app_config only for Django < 3.2
• Remove revisions_index view
• Drop Python 3.6 support

wagtail-bakery

• Add 'alias_of' field to tests

eslint-config-wagtail

• Release v0.4.0
• Reformat code with Prettier
• Replace stylistic rules with eslint-config-prettier
• Update to ESLint v8 and compatible dependencies
• Upgrade to latest Jest and Prettier
• Upgrade to Node 16 and npm v8

stylelint-config-wagtail

• Release v0.3.2
• Tweak SCSS import rules for Wagtail codebase compatibility
• Switch from stylelint-scss to stylelint-config-recommended-scss
• Update missing version number
• Update project dependencies
• Simplify CI builds
• Rename branch from master to main

wagtail-localize

• Sync source page privacy settings with translated page
• Handle text field clearing when syncing

wagtail-localize-git

• pre-commit, linting and some tidy ups

areweheadlessyet

• A new project!
• Silence Vercel GitHub integration
• Add Powered by Vercel message
• Add "Powered by Vercel" badge

Discussions and RFCs

Discussions:

• UI architecture technical debt
• Auto-save
• Version numbering
• Wagtail page editor 2022
• Background workers RFC

RFCs (Requests For Comments) are proposals for larger changes in Wagtail. They are submitted as a pull request on the RFCs repository and everyone is welcome to participate in the discussion until the RFC is approved.

Recent RFCs:

• RFC 68: improve the new project user experience
• RFC 69: Model audit logging
• RFC 70: Wagtail Vision
• RFC 71: support for responsive images & picture element
• RFC 74: Core module reorganisation

If you want to know more about the RFC process, you can read about it here.

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