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A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience

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Wagtail is an open source content management system built on Django, with a strong community and commercial support. It's focused on user experience, and offers precise control for designers and developers.

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🔥 Features

  • A fast, attractive interface for authors
  • Complete control over front-end design and structure
  • Scales to millions of pages and thousands of editors
  • Fast out of the box, cache-friendly when you need it
  • Content API for 'headless' sites with de-coupled front-end
  • Runs on a Raspberry Pi or a multi-datacenter cloud platform
  • StreamField encourages flexible content without compromising structure
  • Powerful, integrated search, using Elasticsearch or PostgreSQL
  • Excellent support for images and embedded content
  • Multi-site and multi-language ready
  • Embraces and extends Django

Find out more at wagtail.org.

👉 Getting started

Wagtail works with Python 3, on any platform.

To get started with using Wagtail, run the following in a virtual environment:

Installing Wagtail

pip install wagtail
wagtail start mysite
cd
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This year is our third #hacktoberfest. We have had a great number of contributions this Hacktober. Thank you to everyone who contributed so far!

How can I help? 👩‍💻👨‍💻

Head over to the #Hacktoberfest issues list on GitHub and pick any that is not being worked on.

Any and all contributions are welcome.

I don't know where to start 🤷‍♂️

To get started with Wagtail, see our docs, the Development section in particular. Try the Wagtail demo project or learn Wagtail at https://learnwagtail.com

Happy coding!

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