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HubPress vs Wagtail: What are the differences?
Developers describe HubPress as "A web application to build your blog on GitHub". HubPress is a free, open source tool to build your future awesome blog!. 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.
HubPress and Wagtail can be primarily classified as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.
Some of the features offered by HubPress are:
- All you need is a free GitHub account, no server's rent, no subscription.
- Fork the hubpress.io repository, update the config file and it's done, your Blog is ready.
- We integrated Disqus, all you need to start conversations with your readers is a Disqus shortname.
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
HubPress and Wagtail are both open source tools. It seems that Wagtail with 7.45K GitHub stars and 1.62K forks on GitHub has more adoption than HubPress with 2.85K GitHub stars and 3K GitHub forks.
Pros of HubPress
Pros of Wagtail
- Highly customizable23
- Very Flexible18
- StreamFields are amazing18
- Web content management15
- Non-tech colleagues can update website content13
- Fast as hell11
- Easy setup10
- Customizable9
- Solid documentation7
- Very High Performance3
- Plugins & themes2
- No dynamic blocks nesting (e.g. like in Umbraco CMS)1
- Good for geeks and not for the business1
- Everything's a heavy lifting1
- The Wharton School0
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Cons of HubPress
Cons of Wagtail
- Not a full CMS: basic components require heavy coding3
- Small developer community2
- Expensive to develop1