The project template should list INSTALLED_APPS in precedence order

Currently, the project template’s INSTALLED_APPS lists the default apps from most generic to most specific, but this is the inverse of the order Django expects them in: apps listed earlier override the resources of apps listed later.

A better default value for this setting might be:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'home',
    'search',

    'wagtail.wagtailforms',
    'wagtail.wagtailredirects',
    'wagtail.wagtailembeds',
    'wagtail.wagtailsites',
    'wagtail.wagtailusers',
    'wagtail.wagtailsnippets',
    'wagtail.wagtaildocs',
    'wagtail.wagtailimages',
    'wagtail.wagtailsearch',
    'wagtail.wagtailadmin',
    'wagtail.wagtailcore',

    'modelcluster',
    'compressor',
    'taggit',

    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
]

[PiDelport]

It will at least cause problems as soon as users try to override any templates the way many other Django apps expect them to: instead of working, the templates will just silently get ignored, which is a frustrating failure mode for newcomers to have to struggle with.

Fixing this should not give any impression that Wagtail is being non-standard: the Django docs (link) are quite specific about the order INSTALLED_APPS should be listed in:

The order of INSTALLED_APPS is significant! For example, if you want to customize the Django admin, you might choose to override the standard admin/base_site.html template, from django.contrib.admin, with your own admin/base_site.html in myproject.polls. You must then make sure that your myproject.polls comes before django.contrib.admin in INSTALLED_APPS, otherwise django.contrib.admin’s will be loaded first and yours will be ignored.

I think the current version of the polls tutorial is just broken, and should be fixed. The tutorials next page, in fact, covers overriding the admin’s base template, which won’t actually work until the example’s INSTALLED_APPS is fixed like the above.

[kaedroho]

Merged, thanks!