Verified User in Hospitality
UH
Verified User in Hospitality
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Fun to use"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Wagtail CMS?

User friendly CMS, all the features you want, good layout and formatting. It is a fun platform to use if you're into coding and open source programming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wagtail CMS?

Could be confusing at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's easy! Can appear not using friendly, which can be a good thing because it is trying to attract a certain client/customer/user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Sporting Goods
US
Verified User in Sporting Goods
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Wagtail review"
2.5/5
What do you like best about Wagtail CMS?

easy to review drafts of blog posts and simplifies the overall build out of a post. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wagtail CMS?

seems like my team has limitations at times in how they can customize a post's layout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Arts and Crafts
AA
Verified User in Arts and Crafts
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Ease of Use"
4/5
What do you like best about Wagtail CMS?

I can create a custom content management experience for each of our clients. It is fairly easy to create new fields in the code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wagtail CMS?

Sometimes hard to figure out at first... but it super easy to use when you get used to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Construction
AC
Verified User in Construction
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"WagTail Review"
4/5
What do you like best about Wagtail CMS?

It’s free!! You really can’t best that. You can get used to the product pretty quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wagtail CMS?

Can be a little slow, but I’m sure there is ways around that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Electronics
UC
Verified User in Consumer Electronics
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great product"
4/5
What do you like best about Wagtail CMS?

I really love the product. It makes support seem easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wagtail CMS?

Some customer service agents are rude. I wish they would get more training. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ashley S.
AS
Ashley S.
Front End Developer
Marketing and Advertising
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Customizable for developers but mediocre usability "
3/5
What do you like best about Wagtail CMS?

I like that as a developer, I can create a custom content management experience for each of our clients. It is fairly easy to create new fields in the code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wagtail CMS?

While the backend is fairly easy to configure, the user interface is challenging for a non technical user to edit. Some of the functionality is hidden, like changing the page order and choosing a new page could potentially be confusing to a user since there can be many options to choose from. Also the rich text editor inside of wagtail is mediocre. Users cannot update the HTML code and it will add unnecessary paragraph tags, which leads to some headaches for our team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harry R.
HR
Harry R.
Solutions Engineer
Media Production
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"My favourite django cms"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Wagtail CMS?

It is a great piece of work goldarn it! Use it please. From the initial set up process it is fast, in fact there really isn't much you can't do if you set your mind to it. I primarily use it to create a help section for a website and it has been breeze, adding and image is simple, formatting them just as simple. And it looks and feels great when your using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wagtail CMS?

The only downside that I can see so far is there is a steep learning curve if you want to do any real development, I haven't really done much development using Wagtail, but I have watched others and I think once you become comfortable with things like the terminal and template languages it would be fine, but until then quite hard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ben R.
BR
Ben R.
Co-founder & Product Developer
Retail
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Lovely CMS built for Django developers"
5/5
What do you like best about Wagtail CMS?

How easy it is for developers to set up your page structures and how flexible it is (by extending Django). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Wagtail CMS?

I love most parts of Wagtail, there is only a few minor dislike and that was justified by the developers (not opening links in a new tab). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Richard H.
RH
Richard H.
Director
Management Consulting
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"New open source CMS worth considering"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Wagtail CMS?

Wagtail has been developed with the web manager in mind. It helps simplify the management of complex websites.

Thought has gone into everything from how Wagtail features are labelled to predictive text for image searches. All these little things help to save time. From an interface point of view, I'd liken the design to being something Apple may produce.

I find some of the well established CMS solutions cumbersome, slow and confusing. Bolt-ons and extra modules make the experience far from seamless and bug ridden. The website we had before was built on Concrete 5 and we had many problems. With Wagtail there may have been one ... or even two in a year. But nothing more. This gives confidence in the robustness of the code base.

I also like the fact that new and exciting websites are being built on it., like: http://www.destinationspace.uk/ .

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What do you dislike about Wagtail CMS?

With it being a new open source CMS, people can be wary about using it. But there's a strong support community building up. And if you look on GitHub, there's plenty of action around the platform (be warned, only go there if you are a developer!)

For the less technically minded, you can see some of the sites that have been built on it here: http://madewithwagtail.org/

It's built on Django, so there should be plenty of people around who can quickly learn how it works, if needed. A number of digital agencies have embraced the CMS already. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.