allow a root page to live under the home page (for now)

pages/management/commands/migrate_pages_to_new_root.py

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import json
+from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand
+from pages.models import HomePage, RootPage
+
+
+class Command(BaseCommand):
+    help="Use this to move the pages the currently exist under the home page to the new root. This keeps the homepage under the new root page."
+
+    def handle(self, *args, **options):
+        try:
+            root = RootPage.objects.first()
+        except RootPage.DoesNotExist:
+            root = RootPage.objects.create(title="Home", slug="home")
+
+        home = HomePage.objects.first()
+        home.copy(to=root, recursive=True, copy_revisions=True, keep_live=True)
+        print("All children of the home page have been moved to the new root.")

pages/models.py

@@ -77,8 +77,10 @@ class RootPage(Page):
 
     template = 'page.html'
     max_count = 1
-    parent_page_types = ['wagtailcore.Page']
-    subpage_types = ['pages.FlexPage']
+    # TODO: we are allowing this to be built as a child of the homepage. Not ideal.
+    # Once the home page is released, use something to migrate homepage children to root page and remove this parent type.
+    parent_page_types = ['wagtailcore.Page', 'pages.HomePage']
+    subpage_types = ['pages.FlexPage']  # which might also require allowing all pages to be children.
 
     def __str__(self):
         return self.path
@@ -573,10 +575,9 @@ class Meta:
         'books.BookIndex',
         'news.NewsIndex',
         'news.PressIndex',
+        'pages.RootPage',
     ]
 
-    max_count = 1
-
     def __str__(self):
         return self.path