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Wagtail

The enterprise CMS your editors will love and your technical team will respect

Tired of websites that no one knows how to update? Tired of relying on the IT department to change a single word or upload an image? Wagtail is the open-source CMS transforming content management for businesses worldwide. Built on Django, it combines the robustness of an enterprise framework with the most intuitive editing interface on the market. The result: websites your team can actually maintain.

What is Wagtail?

The CMS chosen by Google, NASA, NHS, and hundreds of other companies that need results

Wagtail was born out of genuine frustration: agencies delivering technically perfect websites that clients didn't know how to use. The result was always the same: outdated content, endless support tickets, and dissatisfied customers.

That's why Wagtail was designed in reverse: the publisher's experience first, everything else second. And it worked. Today it's used by everyone from startups to giants like NASA, Oxfam, Mozilla, Google, MIT, and the British National Health Service.

At Mecexis, we've been developing with Django, the framework on which Wagtail is built, for over a decade. This combination allows us to deliver projects that not only work on launch day, but continue to function months and years later, because the client can manage them without our assistance.

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Main advantages

Every technology decision has a direct impact on your business. Here's why Wagtail delivers results where other CMS platforms create problems.

  • Drastic Reduction in Maintenance Costs

    Wagtail's admin panel is designed for everyday users, not techies. Your editors can create pages, update content, and manage images without specialized training. The result: fewer support tickets, less reliance on developers, and a marketing team that can finally move at the speed it needs.

  • StreamField: Creative Freedom without Chaos

    The StreamField system allows editors to build pages by combining predefined blocks: text, images, videos, forms, testimonials, and more. It's like having Notion or Canva within your website, but always maintaining brand consistency. Say goodbye to designs broken by editors who "only wanted to change one thing."

  • Enterprise Security with No License Costs

    Built on Django, Wagtail inherits the most secure framework in the Python ecosystem. It offers protection against the most common vulnerabilities, regular security updates, and an active community that quickly detects and fixes issues. All this without the five-figure licensing fees of proprietary CMSs.

  • SEO That Actually Works

    Wagtail includes SEO tools that guide editors as they write: fields for meta descriptions, URL control, automatic sitemaps, structured data... In addition, its image system automatically generates optimal sizes for each device, improving loading speed and, consequently, Google ranking.

  • Headache-Free Media Management

    Thousands of unorganized images? Documents impossible to find? Wagtail's media manager includes collection organization, advanced search, smart cropping with focal point detection, and automatic conversion to modern formats like WebP. Your media library will finally make sense.

  • Multilingual without Multiplying Costs

    A single Wagtail can manage multiple languages and multiple sites. Perfect for businesses with an international presence that don't want to maintain (and pay for) separate installations for each market. Integrated translation workflows keep everything synchronized without duplicating work.

Ideal use cases

Wagtail is the solution when other CMSs fall short

  • Corporate websites with marketing teams that need autonomy
  • Content portals with frequent publishing and multiple editors
  • Institutional websites with accessibility and compliance requirements
  • International companies that need efficient multilingual management
  • Projects that require integrations with CRM, ERP, or other systems

Technical Specifications

Behind the editor's simplicity lies a solid technical architecture. These are the capabilities that allow Wagtail to adapt to any requirement without compromising the user experience.

  • Headless API for Omnichannel

    Wagtail exposes all its content via REST APIs or GraphQL. This means the same content can power your website, mobile app, in-store displays, or any other channel. One editorial team, multiple customer touchpoints.

  • Custom Page Templates

    Each page type is defined as a Django template with specific fields. Do you need product pages with technical specifications? Team profiles with social media links? Landing pages with conversion blocks? Everything is tailored precisely to your business needs.

  • Permissions and Approval Workflows

    Define who can edit what, in which sections of the site, and what reviews the content must pass before being published. Essential for organizations with compliance requirements or distributed teams where not everyone should be able to publish directly.

  • Professional Search with Elasticsearch

    For sites with hundreds or thousands of pages, Wagtail integrates with Elasticsearch to deliver instant and relevant search results. Indexing is automatic and configurable: you decide which content is given more weight in the results.

  • Snippets for Reusable Content

    Testimonials, team members, featured products, CTAs... Snippets are defined once and used across multiple pages. When you update a snippet, it's updated everywhere. No more inconsistencies and duplicate content.

  • Limitless Extensibility

    Hooks, signals, and an extensible architecture allow you to add any functionality without modifying Wagtail's codebase. CMS updates will never break your customizations.

Wagtail experts with over a decade of experience in Django

Wagtail is a powerful tool, but like any tool, the result depends on who uses it. This is what makes the difference when you work with us.

1 Complete Mastery of the Django-Wagtail Stack

We don't just install Wagtail: we extend, optimize, and customize it. Our more than 10 years of experience with Django means we understand the framework inside and out. When a requirement arises that Wagtail doesn't cover out of the box, we develop it. No excuses, no "it can't be done."

2 Obsession with the Editor's Experience

We measure a project's success by what happens after delivery. Can the client update content without calling us? Has the marketing team stopped submitting tickets? We configure each admin panel with the daily user in mind, not to showcase features no one needs.

3 Trauma-free migration

Are you coming from WordPress, Drupal, or a proprietary CMS that's become too limited? We have proven experience in migrations that preserve your SEO ranking, content, and URLs. Switching platforms doesn't have to be a leap of faith.

4 Integrations that Work

Wagtail rarely works alone. We connect with your CRM, your ERP, your email marketing platform, your corporate authentication system... We create robust integrations that automate processes and keep your data synchronized. Less manual work, fewer errors, more time for what matters.

The best CMS is the one the client can use without calling us. With Wagtail, that's been the case from day one.
Enric Martínez
Enric MartínezDeveloper