wagtail/docs/reference/jinja2.md

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Jinja2 template support

Wagtail supports Jinja2 templating for all front end features. More information on each of the template tags below can be found in the documentation.

Configuring Django

Django needs to be configured to support Jinja2 templates. As the Wagtail admin is written using standard Django templates, Django has to be configured to use both templating engines. Add the Jinja2 template backend configuration to the TEMPLATES setting for your app as shown here:

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        "BACKEND": "django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates",
        # ... the rest of the existing Django template configuration ...
    },
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2',
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'extensions': [
                'wagtail.jinja2tags.core',
                'wagtail.admin.jinja2tags.userbar',
                'wagtail.images.jinja2tags.images',
            ],
        },
    }
]

Jinja templates must be placed in a jinja2/ directory in your app. For example, the standard template location for an EventPage model in an events app would be events/jinja2/events/event_page.html.

By default, the Jinja environment does not have any Django functions or filters. The Django documentation has more information on {class}django.template.backends.jinja2.Jinja2 (configuring Jinja for Django).

self in templates

In Django templates, self can be used to refer to the current page, stream block, or field panel. In Jinja, self is reserved for internal use. When writing Jinja templates, use page to refer to pages, value for stream blocks, and field_panel for field panels.

Template tags, functions & filters

pageurl()

Generate a URL for a Page instance:

<a href="{{ pageurl(page.more_information) }}">More information</a>

See for more information

slugurl()

Generate a URL for a Page with a slug:

<a href="{{ slugurl("about") }}">About us</a>

See for more information

image()

Resize an image, and print an <img> tag:

{# Print an image tag #}
{{ image(page.header_image, "fill-1024x200", class="header-image") }}

{# Resize an image #}
{% set background=image(page.background_image, "max-1024x1024") %}
<div class="wrapper" style="background-image: url({{ background.url }});">

See for more information

|richtext

Transform Wagtail's internal HTML representation, expanding internal references to pages and images.

{{ page.body|richtext }}

See for more information

wagtail_site

Returns the Site object corresponding to the current request.

{{ wagtail_site().site_name }}

See for more information

wagtailuserbar()

Output the Wagtail contextual flyout menu for editing pages from the front end

{{ wagtailuserbar() }}

See for more information

{% include_block %}

Output the HTML representation for the stream content as a whole, as well as for each individual block.

Allows to pass template context (by default) to the StreamField template.

{% include_block page.body %}
{% include_block page.body with context %} {# The same as the previous #}
{% include_block page.body without context %}

See StreamField template rendering for more information.

The ``{% include_block %}`` tag is designed to closely follow the syntax and behaviour
of Jinja's ``{% include %}``, so it does not implement the Django version's feature of
only passing specified variables into the context.