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Wagtail CMS - Tom Dyson

Apr 24, 2019
Tom Dyson, an expert in Wagtail CMS and a member of the Wagtail Core Team, discusses the creation and popularity of Wagtail, the significance of Wagtail CMS in image handling and design, enhancing the editor experience with image recognition and third-party plugins, challenges of discoverability and maintaining curated repositories in the Django ecosystem, and the challenges and future of Wagtail CMS.
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Tom Dyson

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Quick takeaways

  • Wagtail CMS focuses on providing a user-friendly interface and features like stream fields and image handling for content creation.
  • Simplifying the deployment process and improving the initial user experience are ongoing goals for Wagtail CMS.

Deep dives

Wagtail Overview

Wagtail is a content management system built upon Django. It aims to provide a user-friendly interface for managing and creating websites. The team behind Wagtail has focused on creating a beautiful and thoughtful user experience, with a strong emphasis on supporting the needs of content editors. The CMS offers features like stream fields, which allow for flexible and structured content creation, and powerful image handling functionality, such as focal point selection and automatic thumbnails. Additionally, Wagtail has an experimental A/B testing framework, which allows users to create different variants of content and measure their impact. In the future, the team aims to improve Wagtail's support for headless CMS architectures and enhance the first 30-minute experience for new users.

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