News 30 Oct 2025

Wagtail, the alternative to WordPress

The best alternative to WordPress

Paul Paul Yasi

Has your Wordpress site become hard to maintain?

Wagtail

Wordpress powers nearly half of the web, but it's not always the right choice for many sites. Many installs of Wordpress have been bent into whatever the client wanted, whether it's was a good idea or not.

Got plugin overload?

Plugins seem nice until you need a whole bunch of them and start paying for them every year. Wagtail CMS has a built-in form builder, re-usable snippets, and customizable page types. If you need more, a custom developed site with Wagtail CMS means you only pay for new features on your schedule.

Security from the ground up

Wordpress is a target of hackers and has vulnerabilities from plugins occuring fairly often. Wagtail CMS, based on the Django framework has user account security and permissions built-in to it. It helps prevent many common errors like SQL Injection and cross-site scripting.

Intuitive content organization

Wagtail uses a tree structure to make content easy to find and move around your website. You are not cramming everything into one post or a page listing, or relying on a plugin that may break with the next update for a critical feature of your website.

Keep up with your growth

Wagtail CMS was created in Python, now the world's most popular programming language. It powers the sites behind Google Blog, Nasa JPL, CFPB, numerous universities, small businesses, blogs, charities, clubs and more.

A CMS is better choice for many sites

When your business is investing in their message online, Wagtail CMS is a better return on investment for many websites.

  • Websites that want unique design and customization (everyone with Wordpress plugins is customizing to some amount)
  • Organizations that are going to be producing growing amounts of content on their site
  • Long-Term projects that need to grow and adapt to any new requirements, and integrate with back-end systems.
  • Projects that need built-in tools to organize their users and workflow

Wagtail is fast, elegant, and designed to give everyone the tools they need to publish content on the web.

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