Using wagtail-seo Hours of Operation in Templates

Introduction wagtail-seo comes with various SEO settings for your site, including fields for ‘Hours of operation’. I needed to take this data and output it on a template in a nice format. This approach is minimal and effective, so if you are also looking to build a global opening hours widget, then you’re in the […]

Changing Wagtail ChoiceBlocks Without Migrations

Introduction I’ve recently been building some content systems within Wagtail that utilise the ChoiceBlock and MultipleChoiceBlock. The project required these to be modifiable without generating migrations for a few reasons, so I’d like to share my solution for facilitating this. The Code When copying from the following examples, be sure to update the class’ path […]

I rebuilt Hermitclock with Wagtail & Django

Introduction Last year, I launched a website called Hermitclock, dedicated to sharing the local times of the active Hermitcraft members. If you’re unfamiliar with Hermitcraft, it’s a Minecraft survival, multiplayer server full of content creators. Hermitclock was built using Laravel, a popular PHP-based full-stack framework for website development. Since then, I have put a lot […]

Writing a Minimal Wagtail, Poetry & Node Dockerfile

Over the last few months, I have worked extensively on several Wagtail projects. Off the back of this, I have decided to pivot from focusing on WordPress development in favour of Django and Wagtail. A big consideration that has come with this decision is managing the deployment of my projects. As a big Docker advocate, […]