Wagtail CMS
Wagtail is a Django content management system built originally for the Royal College of Art and focused on flexibility and user experience. Its features include:
- A fast, attractive editor interface
- Complete control over design with standard Django templates
- Configure content types through standard Django models
- Tightly integrated search (with an Elasticsearch backend for production)
- Strong document and image management
- Wide support for embedded content
- Simple, configurable permissions
- Support for tree-based content organisation
- Optional preview->submit->approve workflow
- Fast out of the box. Varnish-friendly if you need it
- A simple form builder
- Optional static site generation
- Excellent test coverage
Find out more at wagtail.io.
Who's using it?
We've a list of public Wagtail sites here: https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail/wiki/Public-Wagtail-sites
Got one of your own? Feel free to add it!
Getting started
- To get you up and running quickly, we've provided a demonstration site with all the configuration in place, at github.com/torchbox/wagtaildemo; see the README for installation instructions.
- See the Getting Started docs for installation (with the demo app) on a fresh Debian/Ubuntu box with production-ready dependencies, on OS X and on a Vagrant box.
- Serafeim Papastefanos has written a tutorial with all the steps to build a simple Wagtail site from scratch.
- We've also provided a skeletal django-template to get started on a blank site: https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail-template
Documentation
Available at wagtail.readthedocs.org and always being updated.
Need Support?
Ask your questions on our Wagtail support group.
Commercial Support
Wagtail is sponsored by Torchbox. If you need help implementing or hosting Wagtail, please contact us: hello@torchbox.com.
Compatibility
Wagtail supports Django 1.7.1+ on Python 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4.
Wagtail's dependencies are summarised at requirements.io.
Contributing
If you're a Python or Django developer, fork the repo and get stuck in!
We suggest you start by checking the Help develop me! label and the coding guidelines.
Send us a useful pull request and we'll post you a t-shirt.
We also welcome translations for Wagtail's interface.
We run a separate Wagtail developers group here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/wagtail-developers please not that this is not for support requests.