Wagtail Live

Wagtail Live is a Wagtail CMS package to create live blog pages.

About

With Wagtail Live:

• Reporters can instantly publish to a live blog by submitting messages via mobile apps.
• Audience can read the posts right away as the live blog page instantly updates.
• Content editors can edit messages via the Wagtail Admin. The internal format is a normal Wagtail page with streamfield and blocks.
• Create, update, delete operations.
• Rich text, images, emojis, URLs are converted to embeds.

Slack and a Live blog page:

Content is also editable via the Wagtail admin:

Install

python -m pip install wagtail-live

Add to installed apps:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    "wagtail_live",
]

Your LiveBlogPage needs to have the LivePageMixin:

from wagtail.core.models import Page

from wagtail_live.models import LivePageMixin

class LiveBlogPage(LivePageMixin, Page):
    content_panels = Page.content_panels + LivePageMixin.panels

You also need to configure a receiver (messaging app) and publisher (frontend updating technique).

Receivers:

• Slack
• Telegram
• Webapp
• ...

Publishers:

• Interval polling
• Long polling
• ...

Documentation

https://wagtail.github.io/wagtail-live/

Google Summer of Code

This project is part of Google Summer of Code 2021 by Tidiane Dia.