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OctoberCMS vs Wagtail: What are the differences?
What is OctoberCMS? Open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. October is a Content Management System (CMS) and web platform whose sole purpose is to make your development workflow simple again. We feel building websites has become a convoluted and confusing process that leaves developers unsatisfied, we want to turn you around to the simpler side and get back to basics.
What is Wagtail? 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.
OctoberCMS and Wagtail can be primarily classified as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.
Some of the features offered by OctoberCMS are:
- Page Components
- Extensible Platform
- Simple AJAX Framework
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
"Get back to basics" is the primary reason why developers consider OctoberCMS over the competitors, whereas "Highly customizable" was stated as the key factor in picking Wagtail.
OctoberCMS and Wagtail are both open source tools. OctoberCMS with 8.76K GitHub stars and 1.98K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Wagtail with 7.45K GitHub stars and 1.62K GitHub forks.
Pros of OctoberCMS
- Get back to basics21
- Highly customizable17
- Open-source, decent documentation15
- Laravel based12
- Easy to use12
- Production ready high speed backend development11
- Perfect frontend developer tool9
- Configurable backend5
- Perfect backend UI5
- Great community2
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 OctoberCMS
- Expensive recurring licence cost2
- Closed source2
Cons of Wagtail
- Not a full CMS: basic components require heavy coding3
- Small developer community2
- Expensive to develop1
