I'm from Torchbox, the UK agency who created this CMS. We launched Wagtail here on HN just over a year ago, and are currently preparing to release version 1.0, whose headline feature is 'StreamField', our attempt to handle the old CMS dilemma of editor flexibility versus structured data:<p><a href="https://torchbox.com/blog/rich-text-fields-and-faster-horses/" rel="nofollow">https://torchbox.com/blog/rich-text-fields-and-faster-horses...</a><p>It's been an exciting year for us, but we've seen a significant increase in interest in the last couple of months, with a handful of household names adopting Wagtail, including one particularly high profile site which we hope to be able to talk about soon.
I have done R&D to find Django CMS and e-commerce like OpenCart and I spotted Wagtail but I felt it's still growing and didn't reach the level Wordpress.
PHP web apps are mature than Django Apps and we need to support this.<p>Please give me guideline on who to contribute or even how to use it and I'll do my best to help.
We've been looking at several CMS's to use for our upcoming website rewrites. Since our content is quite broad and unique in the way that it links together, we've found that existing solutions doesn't really fit into the usual CMS solutions. Therefore we've been looking at using something which is focused on providing an API to the content.<p>Examples of these:<p>- <a href="https://prismic.io/" rel="nofollow">https://prismic.io/</a><p>- <a href="https://www.contentful.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.contentful.com/</a><p>- <a href="https://github.com/aheinze/cockpit" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/aheinze/cockpit</a><p>Personally, I believe more CMS solutions needs to provide a powerful API for dealing with storing and retrieving content.<p>What does Wagtail have to offer in this respect?
The developers did a SHOW HN launching wagtail.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7231164" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7231164</a>
Wagtail looks nice, although I haven't used it much.<p>(shameless plug:) I made a Docker image for the Wagtail Demo to make it easier to test out:<p><a href="https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/oyvindsk/wagtail-demo/" rel="nofollow">https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/oyvindsk/wagtail-demo/</a>
<a href="https://github.com/oyvindsk/docker-playground/tree/master/dockerfiles/wagtaildemo" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/oyvindsk/docker-playground/tree/master/do...</a><p><pre><code> docker run -p 8000:8000 -d oyvindsk/wagtail-demo
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Haven't tried it in a while, but hopefully it still works :)
This is actually pretty neat. As someone who has worked on many wordpress sites for a long time, having faster everything would be amazing.<p>The product looks very polished and I hope to see it grow and develop a large community. That would make it a real WP competitor since the main reason WP is so powerful now is because of all the themes, documentation, and plugins.
Django should have some simple plugin install system built-in, auto update capability like in WordPress. It's not friendly to test different modules as one must always dig the settings.py and hunt the docs of relevant modules.
> Free<p>> We use a BSD license.<p>I see in no way how a BSD License is free. I think the word Open-source is better suited here.<p>Maybe it's nitpicking. I wish English had more words that describe "free"-ness (gratis vs frei) etc.<p>EDIT: Okay a few words later they're also saying freedom. So I guess it's not nitpicking as I don't see how BSD gives you 'freedom'.