Wagtail

The product looks very polished and I hope to see it grow and develop a large community. That would make it a real WP competitor since the main reason WP is so powerful now is because of all the themes, documentation, and plugins.

Re: Wagtail

#5

Post by fnordsensei » Mon, Apr 20, 2015, 6:47 AM UTC

Is the backend coupled to the front end? Or can I render the resulting data with whatever I want?

Re: Wagtail

#6

Post by jbrooksuk » Mon, Apr 20, 2015, 7:03 AM UTC

We've been looking at several CMS's to use for our upcoming website rewrites. Since our content is quite broad and unique in the way that it links together, we've found that existing solutions doesn't really fit into the usual CMS solutions. Therefore we've been looking at using something which is focused on providing an API to the content.

Examples of these:

- https://prismic.io/

- https://www.contentful.com/

- https://github.com/aheinze/cockpit

Personally, I believe more CMS solutions needs to provide a powerful API for dealing with storing and retrieving content.

What does Wagtail have to offer in this respect?

Re: Wagtail

#7

Post by tomd » Mon, Apr 20, 2015, 7:44 AM UTC

jbrooksuk wrote: post #6

We've been looking at several CMS's to use for our upcoming website rewrites. Since our content is quite broad and unique in the way that it links together, we've found that existing solutions doesn't really fit into the usual CMS solutions. Therefore we've been looking at using something which is focused on providing an API to the content. Examples of these: - https://prismic.io/ - https://www.contentful.com/ - http…

Several of Wagtail's users are using it just like this - a tool for authoring and managing content, with an API for delivering content to web, mobile and print channels.

Here's the API documentation:

http://docs.wagtail.io/en/latest/contrib/api/

Re: Wagtail

#8

Post by dordoka » Mon, Apr 20, 2015, 7:47 AM UTC

fnordsensei wrote: post #5

Is the backend coupled to the front end? Or can I render the resulting data with whatever I want?

They have an API http://docs.wagtail.io/en/latest/contrib/api/

Re: Wagtail

#9

Post by tomd » Mon, Apr 20, 2015, 7:47 AM UTC

fnordsensei wrote: post #5

Is the backend coupled to the front end? Or can I render the resulting data with whatever I want?

No, it's a clear tenet of Wagtail's design that it should place no restrictions on how you render content.

Re: Wagtail

#10

Post by tomd » Mon, Apr 20, 2015, 7:59 AM UTC

I'm from Torchbox, the UK agency who created this CMS. We launched Wagtail here on HN just over a year ago, and are currently preparing to release version 1.0, whose headline feature is 'StreamField', our attempt to handle the old CMS dilemma of editor flexibility versus structured data:

https://torchbox.com/blog/rich-text-fields-and-faster-horses...

It's been an exciting year for us, but we've seen a significant increase in interest in the last couple of months, with a handful of household names adopting Wagtail, including one particularly high profile site which we hope to be able to talk about soon.