Location: PyCon, Cleveland, OH, USA
Date: May 4, 2019, 1:00pm
Organizer: Vince Salvino of CodeRed CMS
A University
- Essentially operates an internal development shop to produce Wagtail websites for internal customers
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- https://github.com/cfpb
- Migrated from large custom WordPress site to Wagtail in late 2016
A healthcare nonprofit
- Looking to expose data analytics via Wagtail versus PDFs for improved content management and editor experience.
Caktus Group
- Currently implementing a big wagtail site.
- Wagtail personalization at the block/streamblock level.
Sean Harrison noted that he is interested in building a publisher-focused CMS using Wagtail.
Several people who work with blogging and podcasting sites.
Several people noted they are interested in learning Wagtail.
Steven and Chris (sp?) had prior experience working in an agency environment, and currently use Django.
Cory Sutyak discussed a local community food bank website he implemented in Wagtail to manage donations, issue receipts, and generate MS Word documents.
Cory and Vince from CodeRed CMS discussed their implementation and use-cases for Wagtail for smaller-sized marketing websites.
Wagtail can have a high learning curve or be difficult to get started
- You have to understand Python and Django pretty well before working with Wagtail.
- More tutorials are always helpful.
What is a streamfield?
Preview page/streamfield content that is rendered by a react component?
- Can react be used directly in the Wagtail admin easily?
What are good wagtail resource?
- https://www.wagtail.space/
- DjangoCon US has a strong presence of Wagtail devs and users.
- Wagtail bakerydemo
- https://learnwagtail.com/ (and they take requests!)