Wagtail CMS is a powerful, flexible content management system built on top of Django.
If you're just getting started, one of the first things to understand is that you need to create a Site in the Wagtail admin and associate it with your custom HomePage model (or whatever model you created to serve as your homepage). This ensures your project has a proper starting point for page routing and rendering.
To return a custom response, Wagtail transforms your Django view into an instance of your BasePage (or whatever page model you are using). You can then override the serve() method on your model to customize how the page responds to requests—for example, injecting context, redirecting, or handling forms.
Wagtail also provides powerful template tags—such as {% pageurl %}, {% slugurl %}, and menu/navigation helpers—that make it easier to build dynamic menus and retrieve child pages or siblings directly from your templates.
Together, this structure gives you a clean, Django-friendly foundation for building rich, scalable content-driven websites.