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Wagtail CMS
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Wagtail is a Django content management system built originally for the `Royal College of Art <http://www.rca.ac.uk/>`_ and focused on flexibility and user experience. Its features include:

* A fast, attractive editor interface
* Complete control over design with standard Django templates
* Configure content types through standard Django models
* Tightly integrated search (with an `Elasticsearch <http://www.elasticsearch.org/>`_ backend for production)
* Strong document and image management
* Wide support for embedded content
* Simple, configurable permissions
* Support for tree-based content organisation
* Optional preview->submit->approve workflow
* Fast out of the box. `Varnish <https://www.varnish-cache.org/>`_-friendly if you need it
* A simple `form builder <http://docs.wagtail.io/en/latest/core_components/form_builder.html>`_
* Optional `static site generation <http://docs.wagtail.io/en/latest/contrib_components/static_site_generation.html>`_
* Excellent `test coverage <https://coveralls.io/r/torchbox/wagtail?branch=master>`_

Find out more at `wagtail.io <http://wagtail.io/>`_.


Who's using it?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We've a list of public Wagtail sites here: https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail/wiki/Public-Wagtail-sites

Got one of your own? Feel free to add it!


Getting started
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* To get you up and running quickly, we've provided a demonstration site with all the configuration in place, at `github.com/torchbox/wagtaildemo <https://github.com/torchbox/wagtaildemo/>`_; see the `README <https://github.com/torchbox/wagtaildemo/blob/master/README.md>`_ for installation instructions.
* See the `Getting Started <http://docs.wagtail.io/en/latest/getting_started/installation.html>`_ docs for installation (with the demo app) on a fresh Debian/Ubuntu box with production-ready dependencies, on OS X and on a Vagrant box.
* `Serafeim Papastefanos <https://github.com/spapas>`_ has written a `tutorial <http://spapas.github.io/2014/02/13/wagtail-tutorial/>`_ with all the steps to build a simple Wagtail site from scratch.
* We've also provided a skeletal django-template to get started on a blank site: https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail-template

Documentation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Available at `docs.wagtail.io <http://docs.wagtail.io/>`_ and always being updated.


Need Support?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ask your questions on our `Wagtail support group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/wagtail>`_.


Commercial Support
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wagtail is sponsored by `Torchbox <https://torchbox.com/>`_. If you need help implementing or hosting Wagtail, please contact us: hello@torchbox.com.


Compatibility
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wagtail supports Django 1.7.1+ on Python 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4.

Wagtail's dependencies are summarised at `requirements.io <https://requires.io/github/torchbox/wagtail/requirements>`_.


Contributing
~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you're a Python or Django developer, fork the repo and get stuck in!

We suggest you start by checking the `Ready to develop! <https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22Ready+to+develop%21%22>`_ label and the `coding guidelines <http://docs.wagtail.io/en/latest/contributing/developing.html#coding-guidelines>`_.

Send us a useful pull request and we'll post you a `t-shirt <https://twitter.com/WagtailCMS/status/432166799464210432/photo/1>`_.

We also welcome translations for Wagtail's interface. Translation work should be submitted through `Transifex <https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/wagtail/>`_.

We run a separate Wagtail developers group here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/wagtail-developers please not that this is not for support requests.