

To help with those tasks, the page editor now has a new “minimap” side panel, with a table of contents of all sections on the form. When navigating long page editing interfaces, it can be tedious to pinpoint a specific section, or find all validation errors. Register_help_menu_item – to add new items to the “Help” menuĬonstruct_help_menu – to change or remove existing items from the “Help” menuĬonstruct_main_menu – to remove the new “Help” menu altogether The new menu items can be removed and customised with the following hooks: To turn off the new banner, set WAGTAIL_ENABLE_WHATS_NEW_BANNER to False in your settings. We store the state in the user’s profile so we only call attention to the content once. Users can dismiss the new banner and the sidebar items’ indicators by interacting with the corresponding UI element. The sidebar also contains a new “Help” menu item with a prominent indicator to call attention to the new content: a “What’s new” page showcasing new features, and a link to the Editor Guide.

To help with onboarding new users, Wagtail now displays a banner on the dashboard, pointing users to our Editor Guide. What’s new ¶ “What’s New” dashboard banner and “Help” menu ¶

Long Term Support releases will continue to receive maintenance updates as necessary to address security and data-loss related issues, up until the next LTS release (typically a period of 12 months). Wagtail 4.1 is designated a Long Term Support (LTS) release.
