Hi, I'm Dhruvi Patel, a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025 contributor with Wagtail CMS. Over the past few months, I’ve been working on the project “Enhancing Keyboard Shortcuts within the Wagtail System.” I’m now in the final stage of my project and would like to share the progress, challenges, and learnings along the way.
While working on an issue as a new contributor to Wagtail, I looked for existing keyboard shortcuts and found only a few. I noticed a need for more Wagtail-specific shortcuts, such as those for search, minimap, opening the shortcuts modal, side menu, and enabling search within the shortcuts dialog.
I also found a discussion on this from 2017 (#12050), which had remained in the backlog. So, apart from the original ideas li