Wagtail - is there a simple way of checking programmatically if a user has Wagtail admin access?

Question

I would like to be able to check in my code whether a user has access to the Wagtail admin interface. I was imagining a field on the Django model like user.is_wagtail_user.

Is there an existing way to do this? Or is there something simple I can add?

Answer 1

Access to the Wagtail admin is controlled by the standard Django permission system, with a permission named wagtailadmin.access_admin. This can be checked with the has_perm method:

user.has_perm('wagtailadmin.access_admin')