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Wagtail CMS
Company blog · wagtail.org/blogwebprogramming
Wagtail CMS is the company blog at wagtail.org, writing about web and programming. Since 2022, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “Wagtail CMS – Django Content Management System”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (17) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters point to wagtail.org as a Django-based CMS alternative to WordPress, citing its developer experience, block-based editor and accessibility support. Comments concern the software rather than any writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 17 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Meet Wagtail, an open-source Django content management system powered by Python. It's free, beautiful, versatile and fast. Find out how to get started.
Most-linked posts?
- Wagtail CMS – Django Content Management System13 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2022-02-02
- What our AI guiding principles mean2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-29
What Hacker News says?
https://wagtail.org/who-uses-wagtail/ lists a few companies who would care about low resource use due to the sheer amount of traffic they see.
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on “WordPress Is in Trouble”Submitted One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash as a story · 234 points
HN discussionI’m not GP, nor using PHP, but can highly recommend WagtailCMS: https://wagtail.org/ It’s based on Python/Django and has an excellent developer and user experience. They pay a lot of attention to detail, including a block-based content editor, similar to Gutenberg, and first class accessibility support.
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on “WordPress.org bans WP Engine”Submitted uv downloads overtake Poetry for Wagtail users as a story · 228 points
HN discussion> Django with plugins could be made to look like and work similar to Wordpress I bet. https://wagtail.org/ is a solid CMS
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on “Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork”Submitted Uv overtakes pip in CI as a story · 215 points
HN discussionDjango [ https://www.djangoproject.com/ ] + Wagtail CMS [ https://wagtail.org/ ] have been great alternatives for our team.
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on “The complicated futility of WordPress”Submitted CMS with AI, Not AI CMS: Wagtail 8.0's New API as a story · 38 points
HN discussionWagtail CMS https://wagtail.org/ is the answer to this, and doesn't technically 'replace' the existing Django dashboard, new admin interface is being sponsored by Google, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD6reQ7T8fQ
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on “Jolie: A drop-in replacement of Django Admin”Submitted Wagtail CMS received its first bogus CVE – CVE-2025-45388 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCross-posting here: I can highly recommend Wagtail CMS: https://wagtail.org/ It’s based on Python/Django and has an excellent developer and user experience. They pay a lot of attention to detail, including a block-based content editor, similar to Gutenberg, and first class accessibility support.
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on “WordPress Alternatives”Submitted Wagtail CMS – Django Content Management System as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe solution to the problem people have is almost never "rich text editing", it's "structured content editing & management. Eg. smth more like https://wagtail.org/
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on “Rich Text Editor for React”Submitted You can make content soar with Wagtail 4.0 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWagtail CMS, built on top of django. https://wagtail.org/
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on “Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation”Submitted Wagtail, a powerful CMS for modern websites as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPython, Django and Wagtail CMS. https://wagtail.org/
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on “Ask HN: What CMS are you using in 2022?”Submitted What our AI guiding principles mean as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIn my other reply I offer the suggestion of using Wagtail, a Django CMS used by Nasa and Google. It offers up much of the same features and user experience as Wordpress and is much more customizable and extendable. https://wagtail.org/features/
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on “Ask HN: WordPress vs. Django/Flask?”Submitted Htmx accessibility gaps: data and recommendations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFlask (or fastAPI more recently) will give you a basic webserver... and that's about it. You'll have to do everything yourself basically. I would not go this route, unless you have no deadlines and want to learn a lot on the way. WP will be easy to set up, but adding custom functionality can be a real pain, and lots of plugins are of ... questionable quality, especially regarding security. I personally strongly disl…
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on “Ask HN: WordPress vs. Django/Flask?”Submitted Supported Versions: Django vs. FastAPI vs. Laravel as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDjango has a CMS called Wagtail, which has some really nice features including custom content blocks which allow you to easily create unique looking pages. Wagtail has over 15,000 stars on GitHub, is heavily supported and was created in 2014. It has since been adopted by organizations such as NASA, Google, and the National Health Service. Below is a comparison between Wagtail and Wordpress. https://wagtail.org/wagta…
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on “Ask HN: WordPress vs. Django/Flask?”Submitted Wagtail's Progress on DX with AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWagtail is one option: https://wagtail.org/blog/wordpress-to-wagtail-migration-kit/
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on “Ask HN: What self-hosted CMS can import from WordPress?”Submitted Time to rethink Shift Left accessibility with agentic AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://wagtail.org/blog/wagtail-in-space/ It's not all NASA sites - but used by NASA for some sites.
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on “Why NASA Chose WordPress for Revamping Its Flagship Website”Submitted What our AI guiding principles mean – Wagtail CMS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe wagtail CMS would be a good example of more complex systems built on top of Django. https://wagtail.org/ One of the many more complex sites we've used it to build is https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/ which tracks over 10k companies, 100k+ articles in 15 or so languages. We've also built internal dashboards, live updating forums, donations platforms and so on. Another interesting one might be https://www.a…
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on “Building a Blog in Django”Submitted Comparing open weight AI models and providers as a story · 1 points
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