Our projects for Google Summer of Code 2026
We’ve been selected 🎉! Our plans for GSoC 2026
It’s official, Wagtail has been selected to take part in Google Summer of Code 2026! We’re one of 185 organizations running mentored projects for newcomers to open source over the summer. This will be our 6th year, with 14 projects since 2021 🌈
Our projects
This year, we’ve arrived at a shortlist of three ready-to-go project ideas that have a lot of potential. There’s room for more! Participants can also make a proposal with their own project idea, and we also invite any community members interested in mentoring to add their project to the list.
Demo website redesign
The Wagtail UI team is kickstarting an incremental redesign of the Wagtail bakery demo site, with the intention to make it a more suitable demo for larger projects, and other verticals than breadmaking. As part of Google Summer of Code, help us implement the new design.
This site is critical for our project, as our go-to for CMS demos but also for local development of Wagtail.
Starter kit upgrade
Our news template is intended as a great starting point to Wagtail, but it’s hard to use and also to maintain. We want to iterate on its implementation so it better serves its purpose as the best place to go when trying out Wagtail.
This is a very flexible project. There’s room to iterate on the current template or start fresh. Focus on the tooling, or the template capabilities. Or branch out into multiple templates!
Multilingual support improvements
We want to make widespread improvements to Wagtail’s capabilities that are relevant to multilingual websites, both in the core CMS and in packages like wagtail-localize. We have extensive feedback from our community on possible improvements. Feature requests, long-standing bugs, maintenance hurdles. There are a lot of options with this project.
This is a challenging topic, with a lot of design decisions to make but also tough technical constraints to navigate.
Getting started
People interested to take part in Google Summer of Code should check out our GSoC contributor guide, which covers our expectations from participants, project proposals, and what tasks you may want to take on ahead of time. The first step will be to join and get to know our community, find out what we’re up to!
- Read our recent entries on this blog: Wagtail nominated for TWO CMS Critic Awards! 🏆 (give us a vote!), Open source AI we use to work on Wagtail, Wagtail 7.3 release
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