How can I add support for custom menus which will work also with non-Wagtail based pages.
- For example by giving directly a relative url to a registration page such as '/account/registration')
- For example by giving directly an absolute url to an external page such as 'www.stackoverflow.com'
I found this very interesting project: https://github.com/rkhleics/wagtailmenus
Unfortunately is does not support submenus in the main menu.
One thing about Wagtail is that what I would call the data tree is made up only of pages (it's called a page tree). This tree is used as the basis for navigation but, of course, sometimes you might want a navigation item in this tree to be something other than a page. I accomplish what you want to do by subclassing Page
:
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
class Node(Page):
subpage_types = [your subpage types]
parent_page_types = [your parent page types]
link = models.CharField(max_length=255, default='', blank='True')
content_panels = Page.content_panels + [
FieldPanel('link')
]
def serve(self, request):
if self.link is not None:
return HttpResponseRedirect(self.link)
else:
pass
And in the template:
{% for item in menu_items %}
<li>
<a href="{% if item.specific.link and item.specific.link != '' %}{{ item.specific.link }}{% else %}{% pageurl item %}{% endif %}">{{ item.title }
</a>
</li>
{% endfor %}