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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 `_ 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 `_ 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 `_

Find out more at `wagtail.io `_.

Got a question? Ask it on our `Google Group `_.

Who's using it?
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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
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* To get you up and running quickly, we've provided a demonstration site with all the configuration in place, at `github.com/torchbox/wagtaildemo `_; see the `README `_ for installation instructions.
* See the `Getting Started `_ 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 `_ has written a `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
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Available at `wagtail.readthedocs.org `_ and always being updated.

Compatibility
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Wagtail supports Django 1.6.2+ and 1.7.0+ on Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4.

Wagtail's dependencies are summarised at `requirements.io `_.

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

We suggest you start by checking the `Help develop me! `_ label and the `coding guidelines `_.

Send us a useful pull request and we'll post you a `t-shirt `_.

We also welcome `translations `_ for Wagtail's interface.