Netlify CMS vs Wagtail

Overview

Wagtail

Stacks163

Followers288

Votes132

Netlify CMS

Stacks523

Followers565

Votes6

Netlify CMS vs Wagtail: What are the differences?

Developers describe Netlify CMS as "Open source content management for your Git workflow". It is built as a single-page React app. You can create custom-styled previews, UI widgets, and editor plugins or add backends to support different Git platform APIs. On the other hand, Wagtail is detailed as "A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience". Wagtail is a Django content management system built originally for the Royal College of Art and focused on flexibility and user experience.

Netlify CMS and Wagtail belong to "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Netlify CMS are:

Fast, web-based UI
platform agnostic
easy install

On the other hand, Wagtail provides the following key features:

A fast, attractive editor interface
Complete control over design with standard Django templates
Configure content types through standard Django models

Netlify CMS and Wagtail are both open source tools. It seems that Netlify CMS with 9.22K GitHub stars and 1.27K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Wagtail with 7.67K GitHub stars and 1.67K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Wagtail has a broader approval, being mentioned in 12 company stacks & 45 developers stacks; compared to Netlify CMS, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Wagtail	Netlify CMS
Wagtail is a Django content management system built originally for the Royal College of Art and focused on flexibility and user experience.	It is built as a single-page React app. You can create custom-styled previews, UI widgets, and editor plugins or add backends to support different Git platform APIs.
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 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-friendly if you need it;A simple form builder;Optional static site generation;Excellent test coverage	Fast, web-based UI; platform agnostic; easy install; oaut2 and jwt; flexible content types; fully extensible
Statistics
Stacks 163	Stacks 523
Followers 288	Followers 565
Votes 132	Votes 6
Pros & Cons
Pros 23 Highly customizable 18 StreamFields are amazing 18 Very Flexible 15 Web content management 13 Non-tech colleagues can update website content Cons 3 Not a full CMS: basic components require heavy coding 2 Small developer community 1 Expensive to develop	Pros 3 Open source 2 Free 1 GraphQL API Cons 2 No relations between items
Integrations
No integrations available	React Gatsby

What are some alternatives to Wagtail, Netlify CMS?

WordPress

The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.

Drupal

Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.

Strapi

Strapi is100% JavaScript, extensible, and fully customizable. It enables developers to build projects faster by providing a customizable API out of the box and giving them the freedom to use the their favorite tools.

Ghost

Ghost is a platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing. It's beautifully designed, completely customisable and completely Open Source. Ghost allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do.

OctoberCMS

It is a Laravel-based CMS engineered for simplicity. It has a simple and intuitive interface. It provides a consistent structure with an emphasis on reusability so you can focus on building something unique while we handle the boring bits.

Twill

Twill is an open source CMS toolkit for Laravel that helps developers rapidly create a custom admin console that is intuitive, powerful and flexible.

ProcessWire

ProcessWire is an open source content management system (CMS) and web application framework aimed at the needs of designers, developers and their clients. ProcessWire gives you more control over your fields, templates and markup than other platforms, and provides a powerful template system that works the way you do

Typo3

It is a free and open-source Web content management system written in PHP. It can run on several web servers, such as Apache or IIS, on top of many operating systems, among them Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, macOS and OS/2.

Directus

Let's say you're planning on managing content for a website, native app, and widget. Instead of using a CMS that's baked into the website client, it makes more sense to decouple your content entirely and access it through an API or SDK. That's a headless CMS. That's Directus.