Settings

Documentation of all the configuration variables you can add to your DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE file.

Comments

CAST_COMMENTS_ENABLED

Whether or not to enable comments on the site. Defaults to False.

Pagination

POST_LIST_PAGINATION

The number of posts to show per page on the user facing blog list page. Defaults to 5.

CHOOSER_PAGINATION

The number of items (audio, video or image) to show per page in the wagtail admin chooser. Defaults to 10.

MENU_ITEM_PAGINATION

The number of items (audio, video, or image) to show per page in the wagtail admin menu. Defaults to 20.

Images

DELETE_WAGTAIL_IMAGES

Whether or not to delete the original image when a Wagtail image model is removed. Defaults to True. This is useful if you are using an object store like S3 to store your images and want to avoid having your production images deleted when you try out stuff in your development environment.

CAST_IMAGE_FORMATS

For which image formats to generate thumbnails / srcset / source renditions. Defaults to ["jpeg", "avif"].

CAST_IMAGE_SLOT_DIMENSIONS

The dimensions of the image slots in blog posts and the modal shown when clicking on thumbnail gallery images. Defaults to (1110, 740).

CAST_THUMBNAIL_SLOT_DIMENSIONS

The dimension of image slots for thumbnails in blog posts. Defaults to (120, 80).

Templates

Custom Theme Configuration

To configure custom themes for the site, use the CAST_CUSTOM_THEMES setting. By default, it is set to an empty list []. Each theme requires two elements: a name and a display. For instance:

CAST_CUSTOM_THEMES = [
    # (name, display)
    ("my_theme", "My Theme"),
    ("my_other_theme", "My Other Theme"),
]

The display value is the title displayed in the theme selector within the Wagtail admin panel. The name corresponds to the theme’s base directory inside your templates folder. To create a theme named my_theme, make a directory called cast/my_theme within your templates folder and place your templates inside. asdf

Storages

Configure Backup Storage

If you store your media files on S3, you can configure a local backup storage like this:

STORAGES = {
  "default": {"BACKEND": "config.settings.local.CustomS3Boto3Storage"},
  "staticfiles": {"BACKEND": "django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage"},
  "production": {"BACKEND": "config.settings.local.CustomS3Boto3Storage"},
  "backup": {
      "BACKEND": "django.core.files.storage.FileSystemStorage",
      "OPTIONS": {
          "location": ROOT_DIR.path("backups").path("media"),
      },
  },
}

Important

This will only work if you are using Django >= 4.2.

Faceted Navigation

You can configure the facets that are available in the search UI by setting the CAST_FILTERSET_FACETS variable in your settings file. The default value is:

CAST_FILTERSET_FACETS = [
    "search", "date", "date_facets", "category_facets", "tag_facets"
]

But if you want to remove the tag_facets facet, because you don’t use tags, you can do it like this:

CAST_FILTERSET_FACETS = [
    "search", "date", "date_facets", "category_facets"
]

Repository

How to fetch data from the database. By default, the repository fetches all the data using optimized sql. If you want to fetch data using the Django ORM, you can set the CAST_REPOSITORY variable in your settings to "django".

CAST_REPOSITORY = "django"