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Getting started

Note

These instructions assume familiarity with virtual environments and the Django web framework. For more detailed instructions, see tutorial. To add Wagtail to an existing Django project, see integrating_into_django.

Dependencies needed for installation

• Python 3
• libjpeg and zlib, libraries required for Django's Pillow library. See Pillow's platform-specific installation instructions.

Quick install

Run the following in a virtual environment of your choice:

$ pip install wagtail

(Installing outside a virtual environment may require sudo.)

Once installed, Wagtail provides a command similar to Django's django-admin startproject to generate a new site/project:

$ wagtail start mysite

This will create a new folder mysite, based on a template containing everything you need to get started. More information on that template is available in the project template reference </reference/project_template>.

Inside your mysite folder, run the setup steps necessary for any Django project:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ ./manage.py migrate
$ ./manage.py createsuperuser
$ ./manage.py runserver

Your site is now accessible at http://localhost:8000, with the admin backend available at http://localhost:8000/admin/.

This will set you up with a new stand-alone Wagtail project. If you'd like to add Wagtail to an existing Django project instead, see integrating_into_django.

There are a few optional packages which are not installed by default but are recommended to improve performance or add features to Wagtail, including:

• Elasticsearch </advanced_topics/performance>.
• image_feature_detection.

tutorial demo_site integrating_into_django the_zen_of_wagtail