State of the CMS in Django

Iacopo Spalletti - Django CMS Tom Dyson - Wagtail

Django CMS

Four main users

• developer
• front end dev
• Power editor
• low level editors
• Use ORM in fancy, non-trivial way
• Django CMS - editing built on the flexibility of the admin (though the admin is hidden from editors)
• url conf is a pain point - bit abused by the way URLs hooked in

Wagtail

• seeking to remove control from power editors
• done a lot of work in Drupal as well
• focussed on Django developers - standard Django stuff
• focussed on performance

Discussion

front end development

communicate properly with the community eg CMS removed features 2.4 -> 3.0

wordpress style success?!

• deployment is harder for any django project
• aldryn is providing CMS-as-a-service
• themes are good for widely used projects
• wordpress ease of administration is so much easier - that’s a big barrier to wide adoption