Feb. 4, 2026

Code that creates content

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: caching, competing with the default site, using wagtail-factories. - Management command to create sample data. 💻 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, continuously updated and built on Python, one of the most popular global programming languages, used widely in machine learning and big data. So you’re always ahead of the curve when it comes to CMS platforms. Wagtail is the #1 choice for accessibility, is scalable and most importantly, secure. 👉 Get started with Wagtail CMS for free: https://wagtail.org/get-started/ and see how easy it is to build a website that works for you. 📊 Read why Google, NASA, and the British NHS, are powering their digital estates with Wagtail: https://wagtail.org/about-wagtail/ 🎥 More Wagtail Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cne2kxemMAQ&list=PLfwZ-fob20cPvSQ_v1hkjto8BAPN21tLJ - Subscribe for more Wagtail hacks, tips and tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/@wagtailcms 📣 Follow us on social: - GitHub: https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail - Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@wagtail - Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/wagtail.org - Contribute code for Wagtail: https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/contributing/index.html#contributing-to-wagtail - Contact Us: https://wagtail.org/contact/ #WagtailCMS #Django