Our slack is where the majority of activity is and as said, we have bi-weekly calls which anyone in the community is welcome to join. You’re right, our discourse is very quiet. I know this is a bit of a late reply, but someone found this post & shared it on our slack today. It’s also good to read the Zen of Wagtail to see where it ‘fits’ and to determine if it’s helpful for your project. One of the nice features is the ability to create a CRUD interface on any other model really easily through Wagtail’s Snippets or ModelAdmin system. There is a thin layer around the URL routing and also you may need to change the url path of your Django admin. It mostly stays out of the way and let’s you use Django as is. Wagtail (CMS) is very active and has major support from its primary sponsor plus has recently had many new features paid for from key sponsors like Google, NHS and Motley Fool.įor your use case, it sounds like you may only need vanilla Django but if you want to provide a nice admin UI for your users (non-devs) to manage the content of your website-ish pages then Wagtail is worth a look. PS the djangocms discourse has 5 topics so far this year. Maybe wagtail would be more open… may end up rolling my own CMS again. I really want to use Vue/Vuetify for frontend. I’m tempted by Mezzanine as it uses the Django Admin and I think this will fit with the other Models/Views I’ll be using for the mappy stuff.īut jquery and bootstrap3…cripes. I’m sure there are plugins/apps for all the usual stuff but a CMS would just work. Things like Featured Image, Thumbnails, Galleries, WYSIWYG editing etc etc. Just discovered the site still just about works on the wayback machine - īut handbuilt CMS today? Not so sure. And I handbuilt a CMS for a novel looking website - couldn’t have managed it without Django. The first time I ever used django it was pre v1. Namely, home, about, contact, articles (blog) etc. I’m building a ‘proper’ Django application - a mapping database with GeoPackage uploading, spatial queries using PostGIS etc but which also has the normal website stuff. For most simple sites wordpress etc are fine. Thanks Ken, and yes you are the “just use wordpress” guy. Django-CMS has a discourse forum at among other resources, and Wagtail likewise has a variety of support channels. (Side note: I don’t say this because I think those tools are necessarily “better” in any technical sense, it’s because the ecosystems surrounding them are more comprehensive and mature - making those products more approachable by those less technically inclined.)Īs to why there’s not a lot of activity about them here, I can only guess that it’s because each of those products have their own support channels. Why? Because from where I sit, those other products are the right tool for those jobs. If all you’re looking for is a blogging platform, or to stand up a “brochure-ware” site, then yes, I’m going to recommend different products. I happen to be a fan of the Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck - but I’m not going to buy one as the family sedan. But I don’t see either of them as being the best solution for a simple site to be owned and operated by a sole-proprietor or partnership-type company.Įveryone should be choosing the right product for their needs. If you are working in an area where they are the right choice, they’re definitely the right choice. However, choosing them is an investment in time and effort. You’ll never see me say anything negative about either of them. Wagtail and DjangoCMS are definitely active and well-thought-of products.
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