After watching your marketing video I now know why I don't get much done. You guys work fast.
Show HN: Wagtail, our new Django CMS
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Re: Show HN: Wagtail, our new Django CMS
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SASS for sure. I've used sass in development for years now, and I prefer to not use LESS. Having LESS as a requirement was an immediate read flag for me :)
Thanks. Can you recommend a pure-Python SASS compiler? The ones we've found seem to struggle with relative imports.
I struggled with finding a way to compile SASS last summer and my solution wasn't great[1]. Nowadays, this version of libsass for Python[2] looks pretty stable, and failing that Grunt would work well enough.
[1] http://blog.danieljost.com/scss-on-a-remote-server/ [2] https://github.com/dahlia/libsass-python
Re: Show HN: Wagtail, our new Django CMS
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
SASS for sure. I've used sass in development for years now, and I prefer to not use LESS. Having LESS as a requirement was an immediate read flag for me :)
Thanks. Can you recommend a pure-Python SASS compiler? The ones we've found seem to struggle with relative imports.
I haven't. I've never used SASS directly on the production server, I just run Compass on dev and push the compressed css to a cdn or media server.
You might want to look into the C implementation? https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass
Re: Show HN: Wagtail, our new Django CMS
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Developer docs: currently https://github.com/torchbox/wagtaildemo/blob/master/README.m... and this tutorial from contributor Serafeim Papastefanos: https://gist.github.com/tomdyson/8974456 Clearly this isn't enough and we're working on proper Sphinx docs which should be ready in the next few days. Extensibility: it's just a Django app, so you can include it in your existing project, or add your own apps / views / mid…
That looks interesting. I've got a CMS which shares some philosophical similarities to Wagtail. It's a lot clunkier and uglier though. I wish I had the time to add some polish. I think the 'pages have types' idea is spot on and something all the other Django CMS's I've seen seem to get wrong. (too much freedom for the user to create 'Frankenstein pages' by arbitrarily combining blocks). The editor and image library i…
Mezzanine takes that exact approach where pages are of specific types, and has consistently rejected calls to add arbitrary block features (although you can do that with add-ons).
Surprised you haven't looked at it - it's the most downloaded of all the Django CMSes.
Re: Show HN: Wagtail, our new Django CMS
#85Really excited for a CMS that takes the writing experience into account
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks. Can you recommend a pure-Python SASS compiler? The ones we've found seem to struggle with relative imports.
I struggled with finding a way to compile SASS last summer and my solution wasn't great[1]. Nowadays, this version of libsass for Python[2] looks pretty stable, and failing that Grunt would work well enough. [1] http://blog.danieljost.com/scss-on-a-remote-server/ [2] https://github.com/dahlia/libsass-python
Another one: https://github.com/pistolero/python-scss
Re: Show HN: Wagtail, our new Django CMS
#87The 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…
It would be great if you would switch it to SASS in the future. Although for me personally its not the npm dependency but that i like SASS much better then LESS.
Re: Show HN: Wagtail, our new Django CMS
#88Nice! I was just reevaluating the django cms world and happened to stumble on this post.
Any support for multiple languages, yet?
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#89Nice! I was just reevaluating the django cms world and happened to stumble on this post. Any support for multiple languages, yet?
Hi eknuth. There's a brief mention of this elsewhere in the thread: "[Wagtail does support multiple languages] but it doesn't (yet) do anything clever like link different language versions of the same article. On a related subject, we're starting on i18n next week, with the first localisation - Greek - following shortly."
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#90Brilliant name! Good work chaps!
Thank you! It's named after these lovely little birds which hang round our offices (near Oxford, in the UK) from spring to autumn: https://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/families/pipits.a...
You missed out on a great naming opportunity:
pip install pipit