[Answered ]-ImportError when setting wagtail development environment : "cannot import name 'Query' from 'wagtail.search.models'"

As noted in Rich’s answer, the Query model (referenced in search/views.py in
the initial project structure created by wagtail start) was moved from the wagtail.search module to wagtail.contrib.search_promotions in Wagtail 5.0. The old model was left in place until work began on Wagtail 6.0 a week or two ago.

Leaving the original import in place in the default project structure was a mistake, and I’ve now submitted a fix for this: https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/pull/11190. Once this is fix is merged, bringing up a new project will work as intended.

In the meantime, you can patch the created project yourself – either change the import in search/views.py as Rich suggests, or remove it along with these two lines in the search function:

    query = Query.get(search_query)
    query.add_hit()

Alternatively, I’d recommend using bakerydemo as a test project for developing Wagtail against, rather than creating a new project from scratch – the relevant fix was applied to bakerydemo a while back.