"Wagtail: The Python CMS Taking the World by Storm"
summary
Wagtail is a Django‑based CMS that claims rapid growth and real-world use — NASA, Google Blogs, The Motley Fool and the NHS run public sites on it — and the project shows 750+ contributors and millions of PyPI installs since 2014. The talk demos installing via pip, running Django migrations, creating a page with a Django‑based streamfield demo, adding images and rich text, publishing a page, and notes stricter semantic versioning (major v6 compatibility with supported Django releases).
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05What is a CMS
- 2:09Why Wagtail stands out
- 3:37Accessibility and dev experience
- 6:06Wagtail growth metrics
- 7:08Major Wagtail users
- 9:16Wagtail open-source maintenance
- 12:52Live demo: admin interface
- 13:36Setting up Wagtail project
- 15:46Exploring admin dashboard
- 17:33Blog post in Wagtail
- 19:46Behind the scenes of Wagtail’s page models
- 21:56Product page with stream fields
- 23:01Migrations and model registration
- 24:05Custom product page in admin
- 25:35Live preview and publish
- 26:20Summary
- 26:40Q&A: versioning and Django
- 28:29Q&A: plugins and extensions
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