12 December 2019

Previous issue: Issue 26

News

• Wagtail 2.7 released!
• Wagtail 2.8 will ship with support for Django 3.0

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New and updated plugins

• Wagtail Localize - A new Internationalisation app for Wagtail sites
• Wagtail Transfer - A new app that allows copying content between instances of a Wagtail site
• Wagtail Live Preview - A new app that lets you preview your page changes as you make them in the Wagtail Admin.

Learn Wagtail

• Adding a React component in Wagtail Admin
• Recipes when building a headless CMS with Wagtail's API
• Learn Wagtail Adding User Registration/Login To Your Wagtail Website
• Learn Wagtail Changing the Admin Display Title
• Wagtail multi-language and internationalisation
• How to build a language switcher in a Wagtail/Django multi-language project
• Initial data for Django projects - Fixtures, but better (part two)
• Django Reversion + Wagtail = magic
• Export and restore a Wagtail site

RFCs

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.

The latest RFCs to be submitted are:

• RFC 42: Data transfer between Wagtail installations
• RFC 43: Author specific page locking
• RFC 44: Make "Custom image model" the default
• RFC 45: Workflow
• Outline RFC 46: Single paragraph rich text fields/blocks

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

Latest changes

All the work this week has been on the new Wagtail Transfer plugin. This work is sponsored by The Motley Fool.

wagtail-transfer

• Many-to-many relations (rebase of #11)
• Rebase #9 / fix handling of root collection
• Refactor to make map_over_json a BaseBlockHandler method
• Implemented file transfer
• 31 streamfield field adapter
• Handle imports with multiple API round-trips
• Move action to first attribute on tasks
• Remove redundant pk fetch
• Move objective type to first attribute

Upcoming Events

• Bristol Sprint 2020 (UK)

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