# Wagtail

Content management system built on Django, with a page tree editor, StreamField content blocks and a content API.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/wagtail/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-18
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-18

## Record

### Links

- home: https://wagtail.org/
- repository: https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail
- docs: https://docs.wagtail.org
- plugins: https://wagtail.org/packages/
- bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/wagtail.org
- mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@wagtail
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXsuEmvisPzuJPaIdpVM0yg

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Torchbox Ltd
- maintainerType: company
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2014
- hqCountry: GB

### Kind

- category: cms, headless-cms
- hosting: python
- language: python
- runtime: python
- runtimeMin: python 3.10
- basedOn: django

### Content

- contentStore: database
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: rest
- templating: django templates, jinja2
- i18n: yes, opt-in multi-language authoring

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: server
- installMethod: pip install wagtail, wagtail start

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: BSD-3-Clause

### Releases

- currentMajor: 8
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-08-25

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 20574
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 1123
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: 586863
- httpArchiveSites: 6309
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 1955
- dependentPackages: 200

### Sources

- name: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/getting_started/index.html (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://pypi.org/pypi/wagtail/json (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://pypi.org/pypi/wagtail/json (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://pypi.org/pypi/wagtail/json (read 2026-10-18)
- firstRelease: https://pypi.org/pypi/wagtail/json (read 2026-10-18)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wagtail/wagtail/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-20)
- maintainerType: https://wagtail.org/about-wagtail/ (read 2026-10-18)
- hqCountry: https://torchbox.com/contact/ (read 2026-10-18)
- wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25206006 (read 2026-10-18)
- category: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/advanced_topics/headless.html (read 2026-10-18)
- basedOn: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/getting_started/index.html (read 2026-10-18)
- language: https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail (read 2026-10-18)
- runtime: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/getting_started/quick_install.html (read 2026-10-18)
- runtimeMin: https://pypi.org/pypi/wagtail/json (read 2026-10-18)
- contentStore: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/deployment/index.html (read 2026-10-18)
- adminUi: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/reference/jinja2.html (read 2026-10-18)
- headlessApi: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/advanced_topics/headless.html (read 2026-10-18)
- headlessApi: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/advanced_topics/api/index.html (read 2026-10-18)
- templating: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/reference/jinja2.html (read 2026-10-18)
- i18n: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/advanced_topics/i18n.html (read 2026-10-18)
- renderingModes: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/deployment/index.html (read 2026-10-18)
- installMethod: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/getting_started/quick_install.html (read 2026-10-18)
- license: https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail (read 2026-10-18)
- licenseModel: https://wagtail.org/ (read 2026-10-18)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/releases (read 2026-10-18)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/releases (read 2026-10-18)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail (read 2026-10-18)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/wagtail/wagtail/contributors?anon=true (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://wagtail.org/packages/ (read 2026-10-18)
- runsAs: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/deployment/index.html (read 2026-10-19)
- httpArchiveSites: https://cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/wagtail (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/wagtail (read 2026-10-25)
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/wagtail (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Wagtail is a content management system built on Django, a Python web framework. Editors manage a page tree in a built-in admin, and page content can be built from StreamField blocks. Wagtail runs as a Django application, so a production deployment needs a WSGI server, a database, file storage for media and a web server that serves static files. Content is available through a built-in REST API with two coexisting versions: one read-only, the other allowing authenticated create and edit. Torchbox maintains Wagtail and sells support services.

## Worth knowing

GraphQL is not built in. A GraphQL endpoint needs a third-party package such as wagtail-grapple.

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