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Show HN: Wagtail, our new Django CMS

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Post by tomd »

Wagtail is a new, open-source Django CMS focused on flexibility and user experience. It was originally built for the Royal College of Art, but now we're able to share it with everyone. See

https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail

and

http://wagtail.io (marketing site)

and

http://www.rca.ac.uk/ (first big site built on Wagtail)

We're really proud of the user interface, and we hope that Wagtail will make it easy for Django developers to build beautiful, modern sites. Feedback very welcome!

Tom Dyson, Technical Director at Torchbox (Wagtail developers)

Re: Show HN: Wagtail, our new Django CMS

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Post by yaph »

The first thing I look for on a marketing site for a CMS is the link to the demo, which isn't there.

Generally, I think demo videos don't fill this void and this one does a particularly bad job, unless maybe played at half speed.

Apart from that, Wagtail looks very interesting and I'll take the time and install the demo app. Thumbs up for choosing Postgres and integrating CoffeeScript and LESS.

Re: Show HN: Wagtail, our new Django CMS

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Post by tomd »

djm_ wrote: post #2

Nice presentation on the marketing side. Is there a live demo anywhere or plans for one? In particular to try out the admin functionality.

Thanks! Yes, we'll have a live demo soon, and a more in-depth video of the admin functionality even sooner - hopefully in the next few hours.

If you have Vagrant and a reasonable internet connection, the easiest way to try out the admin UI is to clone the demo site at https://github.com/torchbox/wagtaildemo, which includes a range of example content types.

Re: Show HN: Wagtail, our new Django CMS

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Post by tomd »

yaph wrote: post #3

The first thing I look for on a marketing site for a CMS is the link to the demo, which isn't there. Generally, I think demo videos don't fill this void and this one does a particularly bad job, unless maybe played at half speed. Apart from that, Wagtail looks very interesting and I'll take the time and install the demo app. Thumbs up for choosing Postgres and integrating CoffeeScript and LESS.

The video is intended to pique the interest of CMS choosers with short attention spans... you're right that it's a poor substitute for a real demo, and we'll try to get something up as soon as possible. What's the best practice for refreshing the content on demo sites? I worry that a scheduled content reset will confuse people who are halfway through trying publishing a test page.

The CoffeeScript and LESS integration is a tricky one. We like LESS but we're worried that npm / lessc is an annoying dependency, and we're considering switching to SASS / SCSS, which has a pure-Python compiler, unlike LESS. Opinions very welcome.

Re: Show HN: Wagtail, our new Django CMS

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Post by yaph »

tomd wrote: post #5
yaph wrote: post #3

The first thing I look for on a marketing site for a CMS is the link to the demo, which isn't there. Generally, I think demo videos don't fill this void and this one does a particularly bad job, unless maybe played at half speed. Apart from that, Wagtail looks very interesting and I'll take the time and install the demo app. Thumbs up for choosing Postgres and integrating CoffeeScript and LESS.

The video is intended to pique the interest of CMS choosers with short attention spans... you're right that it's a poor substitute for a real demo, and we'll try to get something up as soon as possible. What's the best practice for refreshing the content on demo sites? I worry that a scheduled content reset will confuse people who are halfway through trying publishing a test page. The CoffeeScript and LESS integratio…

An idea for a content reset, would be to warn the user before it actually happens and/or having a visible countdown widget that tells you when reset happens.

I see that the npm dependency might draw away people, maybe provide and add-on that depends on npm and makes it easy to integrate CoffeeScript, LESS, SASS?

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