Wagtail CMS: Changing the Admin Display Title

This video features Kalob Taulien at Wagtail Space 2026 .

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Published November 29, 2023

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Tutorial: https://learnwagtail.com/tutorials/changing-page-display-title/
Wagtail for Beginners Course: https://learnwagtail.com/wagtail-for-beginners/

In the Wagtail Admin, we can change what the Pages are called in the Wagtail Page Explorer. This isn't a super popular feature, but it's good to know that this is possible. This won't change your actual title field, nor will it effect your templates, this is purely a Wagtail Admin feature.

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Used in this video: Wagtail 2.5.1, Python 3.7, Django 2.2.2

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Kalob Taulien

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Wagtail Space 2026

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