Peregrine: A Blog System for Wagtail - PyPhilly: Timothy Allen

Create a Fresh Django Project

mkvirtualenv my_blog
pip install peregrine
django-admin startproject my_blog
cd my_blog

Modify Your Django Settings

Your settings file will be located in my_blog/settings.py if you're using the default Django project layout created by the startproject command above. You can add these settings at the very bottom of the file.

PEREGRINE_APPS = [
    'wagtail.wagtailcore',
    'wagtail.wagtailadmin',
    'wagtail.wagtaildocs',
    'wagtail.wagtailsnippets',
    'wagtail.wagtailusers',
    'wagtail.wagtailimages',
    'wagtail.wagtailembeds',
    'wagtail.wagtailsearch',
    'wagtail.wagtailsites',
    'wagtail.wagtailredirects',
    'wagtail.wagtailforms',
    'wagtail.contrib.table_block',

    'bootstrap4',
    'wagtailcodeblock',
    'wagtailcontentstream',
    'peregrine',
    'taggit',
    'modelcluster',
]

INSTALLED_APPS += PEREGRINE_APPS

PEREGRINE_MIDDLEWARE = [
    'wagtail.wagtailcore.middleware.SiteMiddleware',
    'wagtail.wagtailredirects.middleware.RedirectMiddleware',
]

MIDDLEWARE += PEREGRINE_MIDDLEWARE

WAGTAIL_SITE_NAME = 'My Blog'

Setting Up URLs

Your URL route file will be located in my_blog/urls.py if you're using the default Django project layout created by the startproject command above. You can replace the entire file with this:

from django.conf.urls import url, include
from django.contrib import admin

from wagtail.wagtailcore import urls as wagtail_urls
from wagtail.wagtailadmin import urls as wagtailadmin_urls
from wagtail.wagtaildocs import urls as wagtaildocs_urls

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),

    # Peregrine URLs for Wagtail
    url(r'^documents/', include(wagtaildocs_urls)),
    url(r'^cms/', include(wagtailadmin_urls)),
    url(r'', include(wagtail_urls)),
]

Fire it up!

After you've set up your settings, we need to create your database and a superuser. Issue the following commands from your project root directory.

Only run the command peregrine_initial_site if you are running on a new project, as it loads database fixtures!

python manage.py migrate
python manage.py peregrine_initial_site
python manage.py createsuperuser
python manage.py runserver 0:8000

You should then be able to navigate to http://localhost:8000/cms/ and log in, and start creating!