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Code that creates content

Feb. 4, 2026 » Latest Django Videos » [Archived Version]

Wagtail is great for content editors to author pages, but what about automation? Whether you're writing automated tests, or migrating content from another platform, you'll want to write code that creates and updates pages, snippets, users and other things. - How Wagtail models page content, in brief (multi-table inheritance, treebeard, revisions, Streamfield, translations). - Creating and updating pages. - Migrating content: handling concurrency issues and circular references. - Testing: cachi…

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Building a little YouTube on Wagtail

Jan. 18, 2026 » Latest Django Videos » [Archived Version]

How I built a video platform (for a Pilates teacher) with Wagtail This will be a technical walk through of a fairly unusual and complex Wagtail app which I've been working on for the last few months. The app includes: - on demand videos - live video - video analytics - API for a mobile app - low cost, high performance hosting on fly.io It will be most relevant to Wagtail / Django developers, especially those interested in managing video content. In the last section I'll describe how I used L…

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Wagtail Space 2025 Day 1 Welcome Remarks

Jan. 18, 2026 » Latest Django Videos » [Archived Version]

Opening remarks and welcome to Wagtail Space 2025. 💻 Wagtail is the easiest open-source Python CMS to use: Install the demo and start building your first site in 10 minutes: https://wagtail.org/get-started/ 📹 Related Videos To Watch Next: ▶ Quick Video Tour of Wagtail CMS 7.0 https://youtu.be/r5RbV7TveFU ▶ The Latest on Wagtail AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zfs1u4Vy5Y ▶ What’s New in Wagtail CMS 7.0 https://youtu.be/v92-6Dy4axI Wagtail future proofs your CMS system, as it’s open sou…

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Wagtail Nest: Maintaining Community Packages Together

Jan. 18, 2026 » Latest Django Videos » [Archived Version]

At Wagtail Space NL 2022, We launched Wagtail Nest. It is a community-driven initiative to give third-party Wagtail packages a safe and sustainable home. Many great add-ons risk becoming unmaintained when their original authors step away. Wagtail Nest provides continuity: shared maintenance, regular releases, and a clear path for packages to stay alive and useful. In this talk I’ll share: - The origin story of Wagtail Nest (and why we needed it). - How the platform works today and what packag…

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Lightning Talks Day 2

Jan. 18, 2026 » Latest Django Videos » [Archived Version]

We had three speakers present 5-minute lighting talks in this session. Their talks included topics like pg_search, AI and machine learning, and how to bring DjangoCon to your city. 💻 Wagtail is the easiest open-source Python CMS to use: Install the demo and start building your first site in 10 minutes: https://wagtail.org/get-started/ 📹 Related Videos To Watch Next: ▶ Quick Video Tour of Wagtail CMS 7.0 https://youtu.be/r5RbV7TveFU ▶ The Latest on Wagtail AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

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Redesigning and refactoring Wagtail components

Jan. 18, 2026 » Latest Django Videos » [Archived Version]

Refactoring components can be hard in any CMS framework due to content governance and technical challenges. When a redesign needs a block to have a new required field, drop an existing one, or change its placement, how can we guarantee that content won't be lost and that UI won't be broken? Wagtail stream field's JSON structure poses some challenges if we want to make changes to blocks' structures without having to rebuild existing content. This talk will go over the issues we faced implementi…

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State of Wagtail 2025

Jan. 18, 2026 » Latest Django Videos » [Archived Version]

An overview of the current state of our project and community, and where we're heading. We’ll review: - Recent and current projects - Our community impact - Current trends 💻 Wagtail is the easiest open-source Python CMS to use: Install the demo and start building your first site in 10 minutes: https://wagtail.org/get-started/ 📹 Related Videos To Watch Next: ▶ Quick Video Tour of Wagtail CMS 7.0 https://youtu.be/r5RbV7TveFU ▶ The Latest on Wagtail AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zfs1u4…

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Day 1 Closing remarks

Jan. 18, 2026 » Latest Django Videos » [Archived Version]

Closing remarks for Day 1 of Wagtail Space 2025 💻 Wagtail is the easiest open-source Python CMS to use: Install the demo and start building your first site in 10 minutes: https://wagtail.org/get-started/ 📹 Related Videos To Watch Next: ▶ Quick Video Tour of Wagtail CMS 7.0 https://youtu.be/r5RbV7TveFU ▶ The Latest on Wagtail AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zfs1u4Vy5Y ▶ What’s New in Wagtail CMS 7.0 https://youtu.be/v92-6Dy4axI Wagtail future proofs your CMS system, as it’s open source,…

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Implement the French Government Design System in Wagtail

Jan. 18, 2026 » Latest Django Videos » [Archived Version]

Discover how Sites Faciles help French public administration build accessible, ready-to-use websites with the French Design System—no tech team or contractors required. Sites Faciles is a project developed by the French government’s digital services suite, aimed at helping public servants quickly create websites using the official French Government Design System (DSFR), currently used on about 80 websites. The goal: provide an accessible, user-friendly CMS that doesn’t require an internal tec…

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AI in Wagtail: responsible innovation for content editors

Jan. 18, 2026 » Latest Django Videos » [Archived Version]

With all the buzz around it, where does AI fit in Wagtail as an open source project, and how? In this talk, we'll start with a quick overview of Wagtail's guiding principles for AI, with a focus in human-in-the-loop design, provider flexibility, and ethical guardrails. Then we’ll walk through the new editor-focused features we implemented in Wagtail AI: content summaries, qualitative feedback, contextual image alt text generation, and more. Finally, we’ll give you a sneak peek of what's to com…

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