May 21, 2016

Wagtail with Tom Dyson

52 minutes

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Summary

If you are operating a website that needs to publish and manage content on a regular basis, a CMS (Content Management System) becomes the obvious choice for reducing your workload. There are a plethora of options available, but if you are looking for a solution that leverages the power of Python and exposes its flexibility then you should take a serious look at Wagtail. In this episode Tom Dyson explains how Wagtail came to be created, what sets it apart from other options, and when you should implement it for your projects.

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Your hosts as usual are Tobias Macey and Chris Patti

Today we are interviewing Tom Dyson about Wagtail, a modern and sophisticated CMS for Django.

Interview with Tom Dyson

Introductions

How did you get introduced to Python? – Chris

Can you start by explaining what a content management system is and why they are useful? – Tobias

How did the Wagtail project get started and what makes it stand out from other comparable offerings? – Tobias

What made you choose Django as the basis for the project as opposed to another framework or language such as Pyramid, Flask, or Rails? – Tobias

What is your target user and are there any situations in which you would encourage someone to use a different CMS? – Tobias

Can you explain the software design approach that was taken with Wagtail and describe the challenges that have been overcome along the way? – Tobias

How did you approach the project in a way to make the CMS feel well integrated into the other apps in a given Django project so that it doesn’t feel like an afterthought? – Tobias

For someone who wants to get started with using Wagtail, what does that experience look like? – Tobias

What are some of the features that are unique to Wagtail? – Tobias

Given that Wagtail is such a flexible tool, what are some of the gotchas that people should watch out for as they are working on a new site? – Tobias

Does Wagtail have any built-in support for multi-tenancy? – Tobias

Does Wagtail have a plugin system to allow developers to create extensions to the base CMS? – Tobias

Having built such a sizable plugin with deep integrations to Django, what are some of the shortcomings in the framework that you would like to see improved? – Tobias

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