What’s New in Wagtail CMS | Release 7.4 | Customizable page explorer, autosave updates, carbon.txt

In this episode, we cover the recent 7.3 and 7.4 releases of Wagtail CMS. Special guest Tim Cowlishaw from the Green Web Foundation also joined us to go over the carbon.txt standard and we showed off an upcoming package for Wagtail that will help people provide more transparency about the carbon footprint of their Wagtail websites. We showed off exciting new features, includin improved autosave functionality for editors, advancements in search capabilities, and enhanced block settings as well as page explorer columns for more customizable layouts. We also demonstrated our new content quality checks and discussed upcoming community events and contributions.

00:00:00 Welcome
00:02:53 Wagtail community & data Insights
00:08:00 Introducing carbon.txt with Tim Cowlishaw
00:23:52 Wagtail autosave improvements
00:27:29 Wagtail search enhancements
00:31:28 Wagtail block settings & layout customization
00:37:32 Customizable page explorer & listings
00:42:04 llms.txt for AI documentation access
00:47:05 Content quality checker updates
00:52:44 Upcoming community events

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From this video, you'll learn about the newest features and improvements in Wagtail CMS, focusing on the 7.3 and 7.4 releases. You'll discover how to leverage the carbon.txt standard for website sustainability transparency, understand the enhanced autosave functionality designed to prevent data loss for editors, and explore the latest upgrades to Wagtail's search capabilities, including filtering over related fields and fuzzy search. Additionally, you'll see how block settings are becoming more flexible with new layout customization options, learn about content quality checker improvements for better SEO and accessibility, and get updates on community initiatives and upcoming events.

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