Introducing Django Oscar Wagtail¶
Lab Digital is pleased to introduce django-oscar-wagtail; an integration app that allows Oscar Commerce developers to add a very mature CMS system to their applications, and Wagtail CMS developers to add a very powerful e-commerce engine to their platforms.
Both projects are very important to us. We are therefore pleased to be able to contribute something back to both communities by means of this project. And there is more where that came from! ;-).
Special thanks to Michael van Tellingen, as he did most of the work :-).
Background¶
We have been using Oscar Commerce and Wagtail CMS for several years. Usually for different types of projects; Oscar for complex e-commerce cases and Wagtail for content-heavy sites.
Whenever an e-commerce site required CMS pages, we either used Oscar’s built-in CMS features, or built some custom models to facilitate simple CMS features.
After some experience with Wagtail for non-ecommerce sites, we started investigating wether it was possible to combine these two very powerful Django projects and leverage both of them for a single site/project.
It turns out this was pretty straightforward to achieve, because both projects use django-treebeard for building either the catalogue tree, or the page tree. So what we basically did was exchange Oscars built-in catalogue-tree, with the Wagtail page-tree!
In short this makes it possible to manage any Oscar category as a Wagtail page, and add Oscar products to any Wagtail page as well, via a neat product selector.