wagtail-generic-chooser
A toolkit for building custom chooser popups and form widgets in the Wagtail admin interface.
What is wagtail-generic-chooser?
wagtail-generic-chooser is a Django package that provides a toolkit for building custom chooser popups and form widgets within the Wagtail CMS admin interface. It solves the problem of creating consistent, integrated selection interfaces for custom data sources, such as Django models or REST API endpoints, without reinventing the UI.
Wagtail developers and CMS administrators who need to extend the admin interface with custom chooser components for selecting model instances or API data in forms and StreamField blocks.
Developers choose wagtail-generic-chooser because it offers a flexible, subclass-based approach to building choosers that match Wagtail's native UI, supports multiple data sources, and includes features like in-modal creation and linked field filtering.
Overview
A toolkit for custom chooser popups in Wagtail
Use Cases
Best For
- Adding custom model choosers to Wagtail admin forms
- Building choosers for REST API endpoints in Wagtail
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