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Permissions and performance improvements in Wagtail 5.1

Exploring the recent (re)work of our permissions system in Wagtail 5.1 and the impact it brought to Wagtail's performance

  • Sage Abdullah

    Sage Abdullah

    Wagtail Developer

How and why the Wagtail page editor is evolving

See how the choices we made in our page editor upgrades have led to an improved editor experience

  • Ben Enright

    Ben Enright

    Lead Product Designer for Wagtail

Google Summer of Code: Toolkit for StreamField data migrations in Wagtail

During Google Summer of Code, I created a toolkit for StreamField data migrations to help make working with StreamField data easier.

  • Sandil Ranisinghe outside on a sunny day with some lovely waves and trees behind him.

    Sandil Ranisinghe

Open source internship: UX Unification

I contributed over 50 pull requests to Wagtail this summer through the UX Unification project. Here, I'll tell you more about the project and the improvements I contributed.

  • Paarth Agarwal

    Paarth Agarwal

    Google Summer of Code contributor

Google Summer of Code: High Contrast Themes

I helped develop better support for Windows High Contrast mode in Wagtail. Let me walk you through how I updated different components of the Wagtail admin to provide better high contrast support for Windows users.

  • Anuja Raj Verma smiling for the camera with a white glowing statue of Buddha behind her

    Anuja Raj Verma

    Google Summer of Code contributor

Google Summer of Code: Wagtail Editor Guide

During Google Summer of Code, I worked on building a standalone website for the Wagtail Editor's guide that will make it easier for Wagtail users to find information about how to use the CMS. This is my final report for the project.

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    Hitansh Shah

    Google Summer of Code contributor

Beautiful Wagtail Content with Tailwind CSS Typography Plugin

Aaron MacGillivary walks through how they used Wagtail and Tailwind to create a beautiful website for a non-profit canoe club.

  • Aaron MacGillivary

    Aaron MacGillivary

    Guest Contributor

Why You Should Pay for Open Source

A strong case for supporting (and paying for) open source.

  • Will Heinemann

    Will Heinemann

    Torchbox New Business Director

Telepath - the next evolution of StreamField

Adding the missing link to provide richer client-side behaviour in StreamField and beyond

  • Matt Westcott

    Matt Westcott

    Wagtail core team

Using Gatsby for a Wagtail build - a case study

Recreating the Torchbox site with headless Wagtail and Gatsby.

  • Helen Chapman

    Front end team leader at Torchbox