How I Set Up Wagtail's Bakerydemo Locally (And What I Learned Along the Way)

By M. Kamala Kiruthi — B.Tech CSE with Applied AI, St. Joseph University I am a first-year engineering student preparing for Google Summer of Code 2026 with the Wagtail organisation. Before writing a single line of proposal, I wanted to actually use Wagtail — not just read about it. So I cloned the bakerydemo repository and set it up on my local machine. This post is a honest walkthrough of what I did, what broke, and what I learned. What is the Bakerydemo? The Wagtail bakerydemo is an official demo project built with Wagtail CMS. It simulates a real bakery website — complete with blog posts, bread recipes, gallery pages, and a location finder. It is the go-to project for: Developers evaluating Wagtail for the first time Contributors wanting to understand how a real Wagtail project is structured GSoC/Outreachy applicants (like me!) getting hands-on experience Step 1 — Cloning the Repository The first thing I did was clone the repo: bashgit clone https://github.com/wagtail/bakerydemo.gi