Setting up Wagtail Bakerydemo Locally: What I Learnt

What I Learned Setting Up the Wagtail Bakerydemo Locally I am preparing a Google Summer of Code proposal for Wagtail. One of the first tasks was to set up the bakerydemo project locally. This post shares what I did, what surprised me, and what I learned. What is bakerydemo? Bakerydemo is Wagtail's official demo website. It shows how to build a real site using Wagtail, a Django-based CMS. The site was themed around bakery. It has blog posts, bread pages, and location pages. Developers use it to learn Wagtail and test new features. Setting it Up The setup steps are straightforward if you follow the README. Here is what I did: Cloned the repository from GitHub Created a virtual environment with Python Installed dependencies using pip install -r requirements/dev.txt Ran migrations with python manage.py migrate Loaded demo data using python manage.py load_initial_data Started the server with python manage.py runserver The site was running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in about ten minutes. The