Wagtail is a

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(CMS) written in

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. It is popular amongst websites using the Django web framework. The project is maintained by a team of open-source contributors backed by companies around the world. The project has a focus on developer friendliness as well as ease of use of its administration interface, translated in multiple languages.

History

The Wagtail project was started in 2014 by Torchbox, a digital agency. The development of the CMS evolved from being the sole action of its creators to receiving contributions from 46 external contributors by its version 1.0 in July 2015. Since then, development sprints have been organised to foster the community. During those sprints, contributors gather to work on selected topics and steer the project. As of July 2016, 257 people had directly contributed to the code and translations. In January 2017, the core development team had increased to nine developers and the main GitHub repository was moved from the Torchbox namespace to a dedicated Wagtail namespace.

Notable uses

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for the

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website *

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blog * The 18F agency of the US Government for beta.FEC.gov *

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on their site *

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on their site *

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for the Wharton Tech Blog * University of Duhok for their site *

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for their site *

University of Tasmania The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a public research university, primarily located in Tasmania, Australia. Founded in 1890, it is Australia's fourth oldest university. Christ College (University of Tasmania), Christ College, one of the unive ...

for multiple sites *

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector. CFPB's jurisdiction includes banks, credit unions, securities firms, Payday lo ...

for their site * The UK's

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migrated their main site to Wagtail, beginning in 2017. *

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— the state's PBS and NPR stations — use it for their site.

References

External links

*{{Official website, wagtail.org Free content management systems Free software programmed in Python Software using the BSD license