Wagtail SteamFields for community user generated content instead of editor, author workflow

Question

I really like StreamFields, but I don't want the baggage of Wagtail's Publishing system.

For example, consider a Forum community site. Instead of using CK Editor or BBCode, Markdown etc form input. I want to give users the option of StreamField based input to construct posts or replies

Is this possible? If yes, what steps would I need to take or edits to Wagtail do I need to do?

I'm guessing using a permission system while keeping the user as a limited admin would be the thing to do, since removing the user from admin doesn't seem to be possible since Wagtail is heavily reliant on Django Admin.

Answer 1

I'm guessing using a permission system while keeping the user as a limited admin would be the thing to do, since removing the user from admin doesn't seem to be possible since Wagtail is heavily reliant on Django Admin.

If you want to reuse StreamFields, you probably want to use the Wagtail admin interface; doing otherwise is likely to be quite a bit of work. So users will need to be able to log in and have the wagtail_admin permission so they can access the admin interface. If you tried to use Page models for your forum, you are going to end up crossways of the way Wagtail's page permissions cascade. You could probably write your own admin views for regular users to add certain kinds of content.

But honestly, unless you have quite a bit of experience with Wagtail in its normal content management mode, I wouldn't suggest you try using it for this use case.