Wagtail CMS Reviews and Details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Ask HN: Looking for Headless CMS Recommendation

  Wagtail CMS, built on top of django. https://wagtail.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• My Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025 in View

  On May 8, 2025, I received an email stating that my proposal, titled "Content Security Policy Compatibility," for the Wagtail CMS had been accepted. It was an exciting moment, and 3 months later, I'm here to share how things went, along with links to all of the work that was done. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago

• Configuring CSP: A Test For Django 6.0

  To fully understand the setups I used, an understanding of my motivation for this Django 6.0 test run would be helpful. All of this CSP work was geared towards my Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025 project with Wagtail. The project was about fixing the gaps and ensuring strict CSP support for Wagtail. In a sense, everything I did revolved around the Wagtail CMS, and how sites built with it interfaced with Django. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago

• Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork

  > Django with plugins could be made to look like and work similar to Wordpress I bet. https://wagtail.org/ is a solid CMS. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Wagtail on Docker

  Wagtail - is a leading open-source Content Management System built using Python. Read more here: [https://wagtail.org]. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• Wordpress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing its resources

  I’m not GP, nor using PHP, but can highly recommend WagtailCMS: https://wagtail.org/ It’s based on Python/Django and has an excellent developer and user experience. They pay a lot of attention to detail, including a block-based content editor, similar to Gutenberg, and first class accessibility support. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Introducing Django Headless CMS: A Powerful and Flexible CMS Solution

  Why choose Django-headless-cms over alternatives like Wagtail, Django-CMS, Strapi, or Contentful? - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• A new beginning, with Google Summer of Code (GSoC)

  On the 1st day of May 2024, I got an announcement email that my proposal was selected and that I had made it to the GSoC community. I applied to a community I really liked (Wagtail), and my efforts over the months paid off. I quickly told my friends and family (who'd been supportive and encouraging throughout the application process). It was easily my biggest win of the year, but I knew I had a lot of work to be... - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Release Radar • February 2024 Edition

  If you like Python 🐍 then check out this project. Wagtail is a popular CMS, combining Django’s powerful customization capabilities with a slick user interface. The newest update brings Django 5.0 support, a new searchable and filterable listing UI, the accessibility checker built into the admin interface, and a brand new 10-step tutorial for developers. This release marks Wagtail's 10th birthday 🎂. Happy birthday... - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Building a Blog in Django

  While this is a good example of all the good stuff raw django brings to the table, if you build a blog with django, you should go for wagtail in 2023: https://wagtail.org - It's incredibly more productive. - Seamlessly integrates with any django website, or hold your hand to create one from scratch. - Play nice with the whole django ecosystem. - Is easy to pick up because under the hood "it's just django". It uses... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• Struggling to build web blog admin side only using python and Django

  Use wagtail as the admin instead, it has a rich text editor built in. https://wagtail.org. Source: over 3 years ago

• But how do I do this in Python?

  Python supports a variety of great frameworks and libraries. Django, one of my favorites, consolidates the process of using Python to create web applications. It's a full-stack framework that provides a templating system for front-end development and even has a pre-installed admin application viewable in the browser. There are even Content Management Systems like Wagtail and DjangoCMS that you can add to your... Source: over 3 years ago

• Django 4.2 released

  If you can afford to structure your app around it, a real CMS like Wagtail is way better than Django Admin, if you want people to have an authoring and editing interface for database objects. Wagtail is just sooo good. Source: over 3 years ago

• WordPlate: WordPress on Composer with sensible defaults

  Favoriting this for any possible WP project in the future, thanks. Would want to take a closer look to see how it compares to stuff like Roots’ Sage project. I’m glad I’ve been able to develop on https://wagtail.org/ for the past few years though. Usually such a pleasure to work with. - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• New to webdev and I don't understand how Admin panels work

  Here's another one: https://wagtail.org/. Source: over 3 years ago

• What Django admin theme do you use ?

  I like to provide a wagtail solution. https://wagtail.org/. Source: over 3 years ago

• What to expect from your first weeks as a software development intern

  The internship has been a whirlwind of learning opportunities and challenges that is very well organised - by both Outreachy and Wagtail. - Source: dev.to / over 3 years ago

• How I got my first internship as a junior front-end developer

  For the contribution period I chose Wagtail. It is a popular open-source Content Management System (CMS) written in Python. Wagtail CMS is used by many well-known companies and organizations, including NASA, Google, Mozilla, MIT, Salesforce, and BMW. One of the things that set Wagtail apart is its strong and very friendly community. - Source: dev.to / almost 4 years ago

• Django Admin Panel Solutions

  Wagtail is probably the most modern, it covers most requirements including pages, forms, image management and more. Source: almost 4 years ago

• On mentoring for an an open-source internship

  This year I was able to take part in an open-source internship run alongside Google Summer of Code but sponsored by Torchbox. This internship allowed one new to open-source developer to submit a project proposal and then work alongside myself and others to build something core into Wagtail. Wagtail is an open-source CMS built on Django. - Source: dev.to / almost 4 years ago

• What your favorite open source, self hosted CMS?

  In the past ive used Wagtail https://wagtail.org/... Which was pretty good. Source: almost 4 years ago