In your projects with Wagtail, you may wish to replace elements such as the Wagtail logo within the admin interface with your own branding. This can be done through Django’s template inheritance mechanism.
You need to create a templates/wagtailadmin/
folder within one of your apps - this may be an existing one, or a new one created for this purpose, for example, dashboard
. This app must be registered in INSTALLED_APPS
before wagtail.admin
:
INSTALLED_APPS = ( # ... 'dashboard', 'wagtail', 'wagtail.admin', # ... )
The template blocks that are available to customise the branding in the admin interface are as follows:
branding_logo
To replace the default logo, create a template file dashboard/templates/wagtailadmin/base.html
that overrides the block branding_logo
:
{% extends "wagtailadmin/base.html" %} {% load static %} {% block branding_logo %} <img src="{% static 'images/custom-logo.svg' %}" alt="Custom Project" width="80" /> {% endblock %}
The logo also appears in the following pages and can be replaced with its template file:
dashboard/templates/wagtailadmin/login.html
that overwrites the branding_logo
block.dashboard/templates/wagtailadmin/404.html
that overrides the branding_logo
block.dashboard/templates/wagtailadmin/userbar/base.html
that overwrites the branding_logo
block.branding_favicon
To replace the favicon displayed when viewing admin pages, create a template file dashboard/templates/wagtailadmin/admin_base.html
that overrides the block branding_favicon
:
{% extends "wagtailadmin/admin_base.html" %} {% load static %} {% block branding_favicon %} <link rel="shortcut icon" href="{% static 'images/favicon.ico' %}" /> {% endblock %}
branding_title
To replace the title prefix (which is ‘Wagtail’ by default), create a template file dashboard/templates/wagtailadmin/admin_base.html
that overrides the block branding_title
:
{% extends "wagtailadmin/admin_base.html" %} {% block branding_title %}Frank's CMS{% endblock %}
branding_login
To replace the login message, create a template file dashboard/templates/wagtailadmin/login.html
that overrides the block branding_login
:
{% extends "wagtailadmin/login.html" %} {% block branding_login %}Sign in to Frank's Site{% endblock %}
branding_welcome
To replace the welcome message on the dashboard, create a template file dashboard/templates/wagtailadmin/home.html
that overrides the block branding_welcome
:
{% extends "wagtailadmin/home.html" %} {% block branding_welcome %}Welcome to Frank's Site{% endblock %}
To customise the font families used in the admin user interface, inject a CSS file using the hook insert_global_admin_css and override the variables within the :root
selector:
:root { --w-font-sans: Papyrus; --w-font-mono: Courier; }
Warning
The default Wagtail colours conform to the WCAG2.1 AA level colour contrast requirements. When customising the admin colours you should test the contrast using tools like Axe.
To customise the colours used in the admin user interface, inject a CSS file using the hook insert_global_admin_css and set the desired variables within the :root
selector. There are two ways to customisation options: either set each colour separately (for example --w-color-primary: #2E1F5E;
); or separately set HSL (--w-color-primary-hue
, --w-color-primary-saturation
, --w-color-primary-lightness
) variables so all shades are customised at once. For example, setting --w-color-secondary-hue: 180;
will customise all of the secondary shades at once.
Make sure to test any customisations against our Contrast Grid. Try out your own customisations with this interactive style editor:
Variable | Usage | |
---|---|---|
--w-color-black |
Shadows only | |
--w-color-grey-600 |
Body copy, user content | |
--w-color-grey-400 |
Help text, placeholders, meta text, neutral state indicators | |
--w-color-grey-200 |
Dividers, button borders | |
--w-color-grey-150 |
Field borders | |
--w-color-grey-100 |
Dividers, panel borders | |
--w-color-grey-50 |
Background for panels, row highlights | |
--w-color-white |
Page backgrounds, Panels, Button text | |
--w-color-primary |
Wagtail branding, Panels, Headings, Buttons, Labels | |
--w-color-primary-200 |
Accent for elements used in conjunction with primary colour in sidebar | |
--w-color-secondary |
Primary buttons, action links | |
--w-color-secondary-600 |
Hover states for two-tone buttons | |
--w-color-secondary-400 |
Two-tone buttons, hover states | |
--w-color-secondary-100 |
UI element highlights over dark backgrounds | |
--w-color-secondary-75 |
UI element highlights over dark text | |
--w-color-secondary-50 |
Button backgrounds, highlighted fields background | |
--w-color-info-100 |
Background and icons for information messages | |
--w-color-info-50 |
Background only, for information messages | |
--w-color-positive-100 |
Positive states | |
--w-color-positive-50 |
Background only, for positive states | |
--w-color-warning-100 |
Background and icons for potentially dangerous states | |
--w-color-warning-50 |
Background only, for potentially dangerous states | |
--w-color-critical-200 |
Dangerous actions or states (over light background), errors | |
--w-color-critical-100 |
Dangerous actions or states (over dark background) | |
--w-color-critical-50 |
Background only, for dangerous states |
The admin interface has a number of variables available to the renderer context that can be used to customise the branding in the admin page. These can be useful for customising the dashboard on a multitenanted Wagtail installation:
root_page
Returns the highest explorable page object for the currently logged in user. If the user has no explore rights, this will default to None
.
root_site
Returns the name on the site record for the above root page.
site_name
Returns the value of root_site
, unless it evaluates to None
. In that case, it will return the value of settings.WAGTAIL_SITE_NAME
.
To use these variables, create a template file dashboard/templates/wagtailadmin/home.html
, just as if you were overriding one of the template blocks in the dashboard, and use them as you would any other Django template variable:
{% extends "wagtailadmin/home.html" %} {% block branding_welcome %}Welcome to the Admin Homepage for {{ root_site }}{% endblock %}
To add extra controls to the login form, create a template file dashboard/templates/wagtailadmin/login.html
.
above_login
and below_login
To add content above or below the login form, override these blocks:
{% extends "wagtailadmin/login.html" %} {% block above_login %} If you are not Frank you should not be here! {% endblock %}
fields
To add extra fields to the login form, override the fields
block. You will need to add {{ block.super }}
somewhere in your block to include the username and password fields:
{% extends "wagtailadmin/login.html" %} {% block fields %} {{ block.super }} <li> <div> <label for="id_two-factor-auth">Two factor auth token</label> <input type="text" name="two-factor-auth" id="id_two-factor-auth"> </div> </li> {% endblock %}
login_form
To completely customise the login form, override the login_form
block. This block wraps the whole contents of the <form>
element:
{% extends "wagtailadmin/login.html" %} {% block login_form %} <p>Some extra form content</p> {{ block.super }} {% endblock %}
To add extra controls to the password reset form, create a template file dashboard/templates/wagtailadmin/account/password_reset/form.html
.
above_form
and below_form
To add content above or below the password reset form, override these blocks:
{% extends "wagtailadmin/account/password_reset/form.html" %} {% block above_login %} If you have not received your email within 7 days, call us. {% endblock %}
submit_buttons
To add extra buttons to the password reset form, override the submit_buttons
block. You will need to add {{ block.super }}
somewhere in your block if you want to include the original submit button:
{% extends "wagtailadmin/account/password_reset/form.html" %} {% block submit_buttons %} <a href="{% url 'helpdesk' %}">Contact the helpdesk</a> {% endblock %}
Some of Wagtail’s admin interface is written as client-side JavaScript with React. In order to customise or extend those components, you may need to use React too, as well as other related libraries. To make this easier, Wagtail exposes its React-related dependencies as global variables within the admin. Here are the available packages:
// 'focus-trap-react' window.FocusTrapReact; // 'react' window.React; // 'react-dom' window.ReactDOM; // 'react-transition-group/CSSTransitionGroup' window.CSSTransitionGroup;
Wagtail also exposes some of its own React components. You can reuse:
window.wagtail.components.Icon; window.wagtail.components.Portal;
Pages containing rich text editors also have access to:
// 'draft-js' window.DraftJS; // 'draftail' window.Draftail; // Wagtail’s Draftail-related APIs and components. window.draftail; window.draftail.DraftUtils; window.draftail.ModalWorkflowSource; window.draftail.ImageModalWorkflowSource; window.draftail.EmbedModalWorkflowSource; window.draftail.LinkModalWorkflowSource; window.draftail.DocumentModalWorkflowSource; window.draftail.Tooltip; window.draftail.TooltipEntity;
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