The easiest way to start a new project with wagtail is to use the ``wagtail start`` command. This command is installed into your environment when you install Wagtail (see: :doc:`installation`).
The command works the same way as ``django-admin.py startproject`` except that the produced project is pre-configured for Wagtail. It also contains some useful extras which are documented :doc:`here <getting_started/the_template>`.