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7 tips for applying to Google Summer of Code | Wagtail CMS
Advice for applicants from Wagtail Core Developer Sage Abdullah
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We got some pro tips from Wagtail Core Developer @laymonage.com for anyone applying to the Google Summer of Code program run by @opensource.google. Sage started off as a #GSoC contributor for @djangoproject.com, so he knows what he's talking about!
Read his tips here: wagtail.org/blog/7-tips-...
Read his tips here: wagtail.org/blog/7-tips-...
Shipping smaller images by default in Wagtail 7.3 - we revised our compression settings across image formats ⭐️ wagtail.org/blog/40-smal... Expect faster pages, better SEO, lower energy use. #sustainability ftw!
40% smaller images, same quality | Wagtail CMS
New defaults in Wagtail 7.3: faster page loads, better SEO scores, lower energy use
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January 29, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Shipping smaller images by default in Wagtail 7.3 - we revised our compression settings across image formats ⭐️ wagtail.org/blog/40-smal... Expect faster pages, better SEO, lower energy use. #sustainability ftw!
If you like your security updates extra-fresh, our Security Team has a great new option for you!
January 27, 2026 at 4:13 PM
If you like your security updates extra-fresh, our Security Team has a great new option for you!
We got some pro tips from Wagtail Core Developer @laymonage.com for anyone applying to the Google Summer of Code program run by @opensource.google. Sage started off as a #GSoC contributor for @djangoproject.com, so he knows what he's talking about!
Read his tips here: wagtail.org/blog/7-tips-...
Read his tips here: wagtail.org/blog/7-tips-...
7 tips for applying to Google Summer of Code | Wagtail CMS
Advice for applicants from Wagtail Core Developer Sage Abdullah
wagtail.org
January 23, 2026 at 9:00 AM
We got some pro tips from Wagtail Core Developer @laymonage.com for anyone applying to the Google Summer of Code program run by @opensource.google. Sage started off as a #GSoC contributor for @djangoproject.com, so he knows what he's talking about!
Read his tips here: wagtail.org/blog/7-tips-...
Read his tips here: wagtail.org/blog/7-tips-...
llms.txt - preparing our docs for AI tools 🤖 wagtail.org/blog/llmstxt... It’s a work in progress, attempting to steer AI use towards more sustainable patterns. Smaller models, provider-agnostic, with plenty of value for #Django devs and CMS users
llms.txt - preparing Wagtail docs for AI tools | Wagtail CMS
Open standards, smaller models, and better answers
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January 22, 2026 at 4:04 PM
llms.txt - preparing our docs for AI tools 🤖 wagtail.org/blog/llmstxt... It’s a work in progress, attempting to steer AI use towards more sustainable patterns. Smaller models, provider-agnostic, with plenty of value for #Django devs and CMS users
The Wagtail 7.3 release candidate is here! Who wants to be the first one to kick the tires on AUTOSAVE?!!! 🎉 Please come tell us if you find any bugs. 🐛 🐞
Check out the full release notes here: docs.wagtail.org/en/latest/re...
Check out the full release notes here: docs.wagtail.org/en/latest/re...
Wagtail 7.3 release notes - IN DEVELOPMENT — Wagtail Documentation 7.3a0 documentation
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January 22, 2026 at 8:30 AM
The Wagtail 7.3 release candidate is here! Who wants to be the first one to kick the tires on AUTOSAVE?!!! 🎉 Please come tell us if you find any bugs. 🐛 🐞
Check out the full release notes here: docs.wagtail.org/en/latest/re...
Check out the full release notes here: docs.wagtail.org/en/latest/re...
If you're so happy with Wagtail CMS that you think it deserves a trophy, then nominate Wagtail for the CMS Critic Awards! You could make a trophy if you want, but we think this is a smidge easier.
Use this super-quick form to submit your nomination: cmscritic.com/nominate
Use this super-quick form to submit your nomination: cmscritic.com/nominate
The 14th Annual CMS Critic Awards Nominations
Your voice, your choice! Nominate your favorite platforms for the 14th Annual CMS Critic Awards, the longest-running awards program in the content management industry! For almost a decade and a half,…
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January 20, 2026 at 2:07 PM
If you're so happy with Wagtail CMS that you think it deserves a trophy, then nominate Wagtail for the CMS Critic Awards! You could make a trophy if you want, but we think this is a smidge easier.
Use this super-quick form to submit your nomination: cmscritic.com/nominate
Use this super-quick form to submit your nomination: cmscritic.com/nominate
Coming up in Wagtail 7.3 👉️ llms.txt documentation for developers: docs.wagtail.org/en/latest/su..., we expect this will make AI coding much more reliable, particularly for new features! Feedback very welcome.
Support — Wagtail Documentation 7.3a0 documentation
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January 16, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Coming up in Wagtail 7.3 👉️ llms.txt documentation for developers: docs.wagtail.org/en/latest/su..., we expect this will make AI coding much more reliable, particularly for new features! Feedback very welcome.
Wagtail has over 20,000 stars on GitHub now! Thank you everyone who took a moment to show your appreciation for our project over the years. We appreciate you SO much!
wagtail.org/blog/wagtail...
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Wagtail has over 20,000 stars now on GitHub ⭐️⭐️⭐️ | Wagtail CMS
Another star milestone has been achieved by everybody's favorite Python-powered CMS.
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January 15, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Wagtail has over 20,000 stars on GitHub now! Thank you everyone who took a moment to show your appreciation for our project over the years. We appreciate you SO much!
wagtail.org/blog/wagtail...
wagtail.org/blog/wagtail...
Our CMS user guide documentation is now available in llms.txt format, for more accurate support in AI chat tools 🤖 guide.wagtail.org/en-latest/ab... Find the files and links to Markdown variants of every page from the "Copy page" dropdown, and let us know what you think!
About
The User Guide is a website to help content editors, moderators, administrators, and other users learn how to use the Wagtail content management system (CMS).
guide.wagtail.org
January 14, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Our CMS user guide documentation is now available in llms.txt format, for more accurate support in AI chat tools 🤖 guide.wagtail.org/en-latest/ab... Find the files and links to Markdown variants of every page from the "Copy page" dropdown, and let us know what you think!
Hello folks! Your friendly neighborhood birds need some help here. We all know YOU think Wagtail is great. Please help tell OTHER people Wagtail is great by nominating Wagtail for the CMS Critic Awards and we'll shake our tail feathers with happiness! 🪶
Nominate Wagtail here: cmscritic.com/nominate
Nominate Wagtail here: cmscritic.com/nominate
The 14th Annual CMS Critic Awards Nominations
Your voice, your choice! Nominate your favorite platforms for the 14th Annual CMS Critic Awards, the longest-running awards program in the content management industry! For almost a decade and a half,…
cmscritic.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Hello folks! Your friendly neighborhood birds need some help here. We all know YOU think Wagtail is great. Please help tell OTHER people Wagtail is great by nominating Wagtail for the CMS Critic Awards and we'll shake our tail feathers with happiness! 🪶
Nominate Wagtail here: cmscritic.com/nominate
Nominate Wagtail here: cmscritic.com/nominate
Ever wondered what the carbon footprint of an online conference looks like? Wagtail Space 2025 came in at ~29 kg CO₂e. Same event in person in London would be orders of magnitude more (10 to 100 tons). Numbers and methodology: wagtail.org/blog/online-...
Online conference footprint: Wagtail Space 2025 | Wagtail CMS
How we calculate the carbon footprint of an online conference
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January 13, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Ever wondered what the carbon footprint of an online conference looks like? Wagtail Space 2025 came in at ~29 kg CO₂e. Same event in person in London would be orders of magnitude more (10 to 100 tons). Numbers and methodology: wagtail.org/blog/online-...
Do you work on multilingual sites? We’re looking for feedback across the board 👉️ github.com/wagtail/wagt... what use cases you have, what improvements are most needed - we want to identify themes to decide where best to get working
Improving support for multilingual websites · wagtail wagtail · Discussion #13693
👋 we’ve been having lots of discussions about Wagtail’s degree of support for multilingual sites over the years, and I think now would be a good time to take stock again – review people’s…
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January 13, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Do you work on multilingual sites? We’re looking for feedback across the board 👉️ github.com/wagtail/wagt... what use cases you have, what improvements are most needed - we want to identify themes to decide where best to get working
Version 0.4 of the proposed carbon.txt standard looks very suitable to be generated by a CMS! www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/carbont... Possibly a new Wagtail package coming up, to encourage sites and organizations to report on their carbon footprint / #sustainability efforts?
Carbon.txt version 0.4 - Green Web Foundation
We’re happy to announce the release of carbon.txt v0.4 – an updated version of the carbon.txt syntax, which allows for a more flexible and nuanced description of your sustainability claims. In this…
www.thegreenwebfoundation.org
January 10, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Version 0.4 of the proposed carbon.txt standard looks very suitable to be generated by a CMS! www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/carbont... Possibly a new Wagtail package coming up, to encourage sites and organizations to report on their carbon footprint / #sustainability efforts?
Pssssssssst! Want a chance to procrastinate a bit? You could nominate your favorite CMS for the CMS Critic Awards instead of sending that email. We won't tell your boss. We promise. 😉
Nominate Wagtail here: cmscritic.com/nominate
Nominate Wagtail here: cmscritic.com/nominate
The 14th Annual CMS Critic Awards Nominations
Your voice, your choice! Nominate your favorite platforms for the 14th Annual CMS Critic Awards, the longest-running awards program in the content management industry! For almost a decade and a half,…
cmscritic.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Pssssssssst! Want a chance to procrastinate a bit? You could nominate your favorite CMS for the CMS Critic Awards instead of sending that email. We won't tell your boss. We promise. 😉
Nominate Wagtail here: cmscritic.com/nominate
Nominate Wagtail here: cmscritic.com/nominate
⏰ live now ✨ Baptiste, Sage and I triage issues and pull requests: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCAC...
PRs and issues triaging - Wagtail Review
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💻 Wagtail is the easiest…
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January 9, 2026 at 10:15 AM
⏰ live now ✨ Baptiste, Sage and I triage issues and pull requests: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCAC...
New page ✨ on our #WagtailCMS user guide: Account settings, guide.wagtail.org/en-latest/re... A fundamental set of features - and more worthwhile to document now that the CMS contains more user preference settings!
Account settings
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guide.wagtail.org
January 9, 2026 at 6:00 AM
New page ✨ on our #WagtailCMS user guide: Account settings, guide.wagtail.org/en-latest/re... A fundamental set of features - and more worthwhile to document now that the CMS contains more user preference settings!
If one of your New Year's resolutions is to learn more about Wagtail, then we'd like to not-so-humbly point point out that we have a newsletter! Stay on top of your resolution with the latest news and tips. Sign up here: wagtail.org/newsletter/
Wagtail newsletter | Wagtail CMS
Sign up to get the latest Wagtail community news.
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January 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
If one of your New Year's resolutions is to learn more about Wagtail, then we'd like to not-so-humbly point point out that we have a newsletter! Stay on top of your resolution with the latest news and tips. Sign up here: wagtail.org/newsletter/
Still writing 2025 instead of 2026? Don't worry, we are too. 2025 was a pretty good year and if you find yourself missing it a bit, you can go give our Wagtail Wrapped 2025 post a read.
wagtail.org/blog/wagtail...
wagtail.org/blog/wagtail...
Wagtail Wrapped 2025 | Wagtail CMS
The year 2025 led to a more polished and AI-ready version of Wagtail
wagtail.org
January 7, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Still writing 2025 instead of 2026? Don't worry, we are too. 2025 was a pretty good year and if you find yourself missing it a bit, you can go give our Wagtail Wrapped 2025 post a read.
wagtail.org/blog/wagtail...
wagtail.org/blog/wagtail...
Do you work on a site with lots of legacy pages that have been unpublished and marked as "Old"? If that’s you - we’re considering a new "Unpublished" page status, to distinguish between new drafts and archived content 👉️ github.com/wagtail/wagt... let us know if that’d help!
Distinguish status between new drafts and unpublished pages · Issue #13652 · wagtail/wagtail
Problem statement Currently we use the same "draft" status for "new" drafts of pages that have never been published, and pages that have been unpublished, and might never seen an update again. This...
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January 6, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Do you work on a site with lots of legacy pages that have been unpublished and marked as "Old"? If that’s you - we’re considering a new "Unpublished" page status, to distinguish between new drafts and archived content 👉️ github.com/wagtail/wagt... let us know if that’d help!
Want to start out the new year with the easiest open source contribution EVER? Nominate Wagtail for the CMS Critic Awards! Fill out this quick form and then give yourself a pat on the back!
cmscritic.com/nominate
cmscritic.com/nominate
The 14th Annual CMS Critic Awards Nominations
Your voice, your choice! Nominate your favorite platforms for the 14th Annual CMS Critic Awards, the longest-running awards program in the content management industry! For almost a decade and a half,…
cmscritic.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Want to start out the new year with the easiest open source contribution EVER? Nominate Wagtail for the CMS Critic Awards! Fill out this quick form and then give yourself a pat on the back!
cmscritic.com/nominate
cmscritic.com/nominate
Here's our holiday gift to the early birds in our community. We have set the dates for Wagtail Space 2026! Mark your calendars for 18-20 November!
December 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Here's our holiday gift to the early birds in our community. We have set the dates for Wagtail Space 2026! Mark your calendars for 18-20 November!
Starting with v7.2, Wagtail’s search features are now handled in the separate Django Modelsearch package (github.com/wagtail/djan...). It’s suitable for all sorts of #Django projects now -- let us know if you give it a go!
December 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Starting with v7.2, Wagtail’s search features are now handled in the separate Django Modelsearch package (github.com/wagtail/djan...). It’s suitable for all sorts of #Django projects now -- let us know if you give it a go!
🚨 live - our core contributors Sage and Thibaud chat about auto-save and how to make this work in a #Django codebase www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_hD...
Auto-save design considerations - Wagtail Review
“This is the average length of the first two lines of YouTube description which is super important to fill correctly.”
Additional context of the video goes here.
💻 Wagtail is the easiest…
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December 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
🚨 live - our core contributors Sage and Thibaud chat about auto-save and how to make this work in a #Django codebase www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_hD...
Looking back on 2025, here are just a few numbers we're proud of:
- 112 code contributors
- 4 major releases
- 383 pull requests merged
We got more numbers and trends and our big list of 2025 contributors in our annual Wagtail Wrapped blog right over here 👉 wagtail.org/blog/wagtail...
- 112 code contributors
- 4 major releases
- 383 pull requests merged
We got more numbers and trends and our big list of 2025 contributors in our annual Wagtail Wrapped blog right over here 👉 wagtail.org/blog/wagtail...
Wagtail Wrapped 2025 | Wagtail CMS
The year 2025 led to a more polished and AI-ready version of Wagtail
wagtail.org
December 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Looking back on 2025, here are just a few numbers we're proud of:
- 112 code contributors
- 4 major releases
- 383 pull requests merged
We got more numbers and trends and our big list of 2025 contributors in our annual Wagtail Wrapped blog right over here 👉 wagtail.org/blog/wagtail...
- 112 code contributors
- 4 major releases
- 383 pull requests merged
We got more numbers and trends and our big list of 2025 contributors in our annual Wagtail Wrapped blog right over here 👉 wagtail.org/blog/wagtail...
Up next on the roadmap - a peek at 7 changes coming in the February 2026 release ⭐️ wagtail.org/blog/up-next... including 3 improvements for CMS users, 3 for #Django developers, 1 direct for site users!
Up next on the roadmap | Wagtail CMS
What’s coming to Wagtail in the next release
wagtail.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Up next on the roadmap - a peek at 7 changes coming in the February 2026 release ⭐️ wagtail.org/blog/up-next... including 3 improvements for CMS users, 3 for #Django developers, 1 direct for site users!