Wagtail
Content management system built on Django, with a page tree editor, StreamField content blocks and a content API.
wagtail.org/repositorydocsplugins
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.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Always on10
- Rendering
- On a server10
- Install with
- pip install wagtail, wagtail start9
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-18: name, Built on
docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/getting_started/index.html - 2026-10-18: links, First release, Minimum runtime
pypi.org/pypi/wagtail/json - 2026-10-20: Maintainer
raw.githubusercontent.com/wagtail/wagtail/main/LICENSE - 2026-10-18: Maintained by
wagtail.org/about-wagtail/ - 2026-10-18: Headquarters
torchbox.com/contact/ - 2026-10-18: wikidata
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25206006 - 2026-10-18: Categories, Content API
docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/advanced_topics/headless.html - 2026-10-18: Written in, License, GitHub stars
github.com/wagtail/wagtail - 2026-10-18: Runtime, Install with
docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/getting_started/quick_install.html - 2026-10-18: Content storage, Rendering, Runs as
docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/deployment/index.html - 2026-10-18: Admin interface, Templating
docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/reference/jinja2.html - 2026-10-18: Content API
docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/advanced_topics/api/index.html - 2026-10-18: Multilingual
docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/advanced_topics/i18n.html - 2026-10-18: License model
wagtail.org/ - 2026-10-18: Current major version, Last release
github.com/wagtail/wagtail/releases - 2026-10-18: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/wagtail/wagtail/contributors?anon=true - 2026-10-18: links
wagtail.org/packages/ - 2026-10-25: Sites using it (HTTP Archive)
cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies - 2026-10-25: Dependent repositories, Dependent packages, Downloads a month
packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/wagtail