How Do I Wagtail?

Organizing Pages

Adding Pages

Page Location
- Go into Wagtail site root and choose a location for your child page:
  - Campaigns - for advocacy campaigns
  - Initiatives - for all other initiatives
  - Blog - for blog posts
  - Docs - for internal documentation or reference only
Page Types
- Choose the corresponding page type for your content:
  - Campaign Page - petition snippet
  - Initiative Page -
  - Blog - share buttons
- Top level pages you shouldn’t need to add:
  - Wagtail homepage
  - Mini Site Name Space
  - Modular Page

Managing Pages

From the page directory view, hover over the page to reveal More page options and this will vary if it is a page or a child page. You can change the order of pages by selecting the icon left of Title and drag/drop to reorder and this will reflect on automatically generated menus.

In the page editor view, you can manage how you save and previous from the lower bar.

Saving Drafts
- pages will not be live
- view draft
Publishing
- pages are live
- view live
Unpublishing
- pages revert to drafts (not live & URL becomes a 404 error)
Submitting for Moderation
- this feature is to be set up and investigated!
Delete
- permanently deletes pages
Move
- relocate the page
Copy
- duplicate the page
Revisions
- Preview, Review or Compare past revisions
  - you can Replace current draft or Publish this revision
  - you can Compare with previous revisions to see changed fields

Page Modes

Status
- Draft
- Live
- Draft + Live
  - contains a combination of draft + live pages
Privacy
- Privacy changes apply to all children of this pages too
- Visibility Options:
  - Public
  - Private, accessible to logged-in users
  - Private, accessible with the following password
  - Private, accessible to users in specific groups
Edit Lock
- Locked
- Unlocked
  - this varies with user roles and permissions
  - page will be locked from edits within but you can still move, copy or delete it