A free, open-source enterprise CMS that focuses on editor experience, accessibility, and sustainability. There are no license fees and no hidden costs.
74% of developers choose Django for full-stack development, and Wagtail is the world's most popular Django-based CMS. As a Python framework, Django streamlines the integration of AI features directly into Wagtail.
Tens of thousands of organisations worldwide power their digital estates with Wagtail, including NASA, Google, US/UK/Irish governments, and the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). It’s also trusted by many household-name charities, like Oxfam, Samaritans, and the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB).
Like Contentful, Storyblok, etc., Wagtail has REST and GraphQL APIs and can be used in a headless or hybrid architecture to separate content management from the website and presentation layer(s). It can also be used in a coupled/monolithic architecture, especially with Django.
KEY BENEFITS:
- 🔒 Secure - strong adherence to OWASP 10 security principles
- 💰 Free - open-source and free to use, download, and modify
- 💪 Mature - enterprise features at the core, not plugins
- 🥰 Community-supported - thousands of users and developers are on hand to answer questions.
- 🌟 Established - ten years and counting, with four major releases per year
- 🦻 Accessible for editors - compliance with Section 508, WCAG 2.1 (AA level) and ATAG 2.0 (AA level)
- 🌱 Flexible and extensible - built with Django
- 📈 Scalable - used by websites receiving trillions of monthly users
Wagtail is the only CMS approved for use on Google's domain due to its strong security practices.
KEY FEATURES:
- Visual editor
- Established APIs for headless and MACH architectures
- Live preview
- Content metrics to help editors write better content
- Taxonomy management
- Multisite
- Comprehensive internationalisation and localisation support
- Full audit log and revision history for all changes
- Editor comments for collaboration
- Customisable workflows
- Customisable permissions
- Easy integration with CRMs, DAMs, SSO, etc.