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Wagtail 1.0 – a milestone release for our Django CMS

85 points by tomd 11y ago

prydie 11y ago
We've been developing client sites using Wagtail for a few months and are extremely impressed by both its versatility and user-friendliness. Very pleased to see it hit 1.0 and I hope momentum continues.
salvadormrf 11y ago
The missing CMS built with python/django. We use in our agency for a lot of projects, including high profile brands. - nice UI/UX - nice features (revisions, preview, choosers) - pages are easy to extend - custom apps can be integrated easily by using admin hooks - good code and documentation Recently started on a complex project, and we are using some ideas from Wagtail :)
nickbarreto 11y ago
It is a great CMS: The perfect ratio of being configurable while also making certain things easier to do.
tomd 11y ago
I'm the CTO at Torchbox, the agency behind Wagtail. We're really happy with this release, particularly StreamField, which opens up a new way of building rich pages without sacrificing reusability - check out the video at https://youtu.be/oUJNweMWwVQ https://youtu.be/oUJNweMWwVQ I'll do my best to answer any questions here.
- ra 11y ago
  Looks great! Much more client friendly than FeinCMS (which is also awesome). How do you add traditional django apps to the admin? e.g. To get list view and edit forms for regular objects (like you have under "settings" in the admin for Users). Apologies if it's in the docs but I couldn't see it. Congrats on the milestone!
  - zerolab 11y ago
    Thank you, ra! Have a look at the register_admin_menu_item hook - http://docs.wagtail.io/en/v1.0/reference/hooks.html#register-admin-menu-item http://docs.wagtail.io/en/v1.0/reference/hooks.html#register... https://groups.google.com/d/msg/wagtail/gootoMvXV8s/yxebbY1ZOwYJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/wagtail/gootoMvXV8s/yxebbY1Z... has a working example. Cheers, Dan
jordanlev 11y ago
Looks great! I especially love that the concept you are calling StreamFields is finding its way to more and more CMS's (Concrete5 and Perch call them "Blocks", ExpressionEngine and Craft call them "Matrix Fields", and Advanced Custom Fields for Wordpress calls them "Flexible Content Fields"). It's really a great balance between giving site owners the ability to manage rich content on a page while also giving designers the ability to ensure that content sticks to the site's overall design.
ryannevius 11y ago
I'm in the middle of my second big Wagtail project. Version 1.0 has fixed nearly all of the shortcomings I ran into during my experience with 0.8.x. The new API, the StreamField...such an awesome release. The only gripe I now have is that hallo.js is still being used for the RichText editor. Congratulations to the Wagtail team!
- tomd 11y ago
  Thanks, Ryan! Check out this exciting PR which landed a few hours ago: https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail/pull/1521 https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail/pull/1521 This allows Wagtail users to swap in alternative rich text editors, e.g. https://github.com/isotoma/wagtailtinymce https://github.com/isotoma/wagtailtinymce
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jordij 11y ago
I've been using Django/Wagtail for over a year now and it's been nothing but improvement after improvement. I'm extremeky excited for this release, a major step in Wagtail's bright future. Thanks for this great CMS Torchbox and keep up the great work!
bliksem 11y ago
Very excited about Streamfield - it seems like there might be some subtle complications around 'schema' changes but all up it's awesome to have content in a machine readable and meaningful format.
frankwiles 11y ago
@revsys we've been using Wagtail quite a bit on sites and it's been a dream. StreamField completes the picture and am so excited it's finally reaching 1.0 status! Thanks so much Torchbox!

85 points by tomd 11y ago

We've been developing client sites using Wagtail for a few months and are extremely impressed by both its versatility and user-friendliness. Very pleased to see it hit 1.0 and I hope momentum continues.

salvadormrf 11y ago

The missing CMS built with python/django. We use in our agency for a lot of projects, including high profile brands. - nice UI/UX - nice features (revisions, preview, choosers) - pages are easy to extend - custom apps can be integrated easily by using admin hooks - good code and documentation Recently started on a complex project, and we are using some ideas from Wagtail :)

nickbarreto 11y ago

It is a great CMS: The perfect ratio of being configurable while also making certain things easier to do.

tomd 11y ago

I'm the CTO at Torchbox, the agency behind Wagtail. We're really happy with this release, particularly StreamField, which opens up a new way of building rich pages without sacrificing reusability - check out the video at https://youtu.be/oUJNweMWwVQ https://youtu.be/oUJNweMWwVQ I'll do my best to answer any questions here.

ra 11y ago
Looks great! Much more client friendly than FeinCMS (which is also awesome). How do you add traditional django apps to the admin? e.g. To get list view and edit forms for regular objects (like you have under "settings" in the admin for Users). Apologies if it's in the docs but I couldn't see it. Congrats on the milestone!
- zerolab 11y ago
  Thank you, ra! Have a look at the register_admin_menu_item hook - http://docs.wagtail.io/en/v1.0/reference/hooks.html#register-admin-menu-item http://docs.wagtail.io/en/v1.0/reference/hooks.html#register... https://groups.google.com/d/msg/wagtail/gootoMvXV8s/yxebbY1ZOwYJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/wagtail/gootoMvXV8s/yxebbY1Z... has a working example. Cheers, Dan

jordanlev 11y ago

Looks great! I especially love that the concept you are calling StreamFields is finding its way to more and more CMS's (Concrete5 and Perch call them "Blocks", ExpressionEngine and Craft call them "Matrix Fields", and Advanced Custom Fields for Wordpress calls them "Flexible Content Fields"). It's really a great balance between giving site owners the ability to manage rich content on a page while also giving designers the ability to ensure that content sticks to the site's overall design.

ryannevius 11y ago

I'm in the middle of my second big Wagtail project. Version 1.0 has fixed nearly all of the shortcomings I ran into during my experience with 0.8.x. The new API, the StreamField...such an awesome release. The only gripe I now have is that hallo.js is still being used for the RichText editor. Congratulations to the Wagtail team!

tomd 11y ago
Thanks, Ryan! Check out this exciting PR which landed a few hours ago: https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail/pull/1521 https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail/pull/1521 This allows Wagtail users to swap in alternative rich text editors, e.g. https://github.com/isotoma/wagtailtinymce https://github.com/isotoma/wagtailtinymce
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jordij 11y ago

I've been using Django/Wagtail for over a year now and it's been nothing but improvement after improvement. I'm extremeky excited for this release, a major step in Wagtail's bright future. Thanks for this great CMS Torchbox and keep up the great work!

bliksem 11y ago

Very excited about Streamfield - it seems like there might be some subtle complications around 'schema' changes but all up it's awesome to have content in a machine readable and meaningful format.

frankwiles 11y ago

@revsys we've been using Wagtail quite a bit on sites and it's been a dream. StreamField completes the picture and am so excited it's finally reaching 1.0 status! Thanks so much Torchbox!