17 December 2020

Previous issue: Issue #63

News and Blog Posts

• Plugin update wagtail-review 0.2 has been released, making it compatible with Wagtail 2.11
• Video How to contribute to open source (using Wagtail.io as an example)
• Blog post Install and Deploy Wagtail CMS on pythonanywhere.com
• New plugin wagtail_cache_block - Adds HTML Fragment caching for StreamField blocks

Wrote a blog post? Released a new plugin? Let us know by tweeting to @WagtailCMS with the hashtag #ThisWeekInWagtail.

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Latest changes

wagtail

• Change embed finder credit order
• Prevent error on publish check in create_log_entries_from_revisions
• Check if menu_item is not None
• Fill in release date for 2.11.3
• Update translator credits
• Fetch new translations from Transifex
• Fix combining locale/translation_of API filters with search (#6627)

wagtail-review

• Update release notes for 0.2
• Styling fixes for menu and popup
• Update github actions to use main branch

wagtail.io

• Feature/service rebrand be
• Feature/services rebrand reset standard page

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.

Other recent RFCs:

• RFC 52: Delete page permission
• RFC 53: Swappable Page Model
• RFC 59: Roadmap for new StreamField development
• RFC 60: Draftail Usage for General Text Entry
• RFC 63: Avoid insensitive language

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

Upcoming Events

• Torchbox is hosting a Wagtail Sprint on January 7th and 8th, 2021. It’ll be focused on documentation: tooling, writing, editing, content reorganisation, design etc. It will be run from Torchbox’s offices in the UK, where anyone is welcome to join us if it’s safe and legal, but we expect most people to participate remotely.
  
  There’ll be much more information to come, but for now, if you’re interested in joining, or you have any thoughts about the sprint, please let us know here: https://wagtail.io/docs-sprint-form

Running an event or meetup? Let us know about it by tweeting to @WagtailCMS.