September 2026: Wagtail, the Content Management System (CMS)

A content management system is software that lets you build and manage digital content on a website without needing to write code. The best-known example is WordPress.

Wagtail is a popular CMS, built on Django (which is, in turn, the best-known Python web application platform). It’s built to produce a high-quality CMS application with minimal effort.

So let’s put it to the test! We’ll play with the tutorial together and see what a DDL CMS might look like. Perhaps we’ll even deploy it!

Location: Innovation Hub

We meet in the Innovation Hub, a gorgeous new facility that’s part of the renovated Dayton Arcade complex.
Enter through the doors that face the Wright Stop Plaza bus hub.

Street parking is free in the evening. I usually park on Ludlow Street.

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if for any reason coming downtown doesn’t work for you (for instance, you’ve been exposed to COVID, or you’ve converted yourself to purely digital format and now exist as a set of cloud-hosted algorithms), we’ll be online as well!

Join us at 7 PM EDT on the PyFri Discord channel, discord.gg/9SgTh3T, and click on the General voice chat link. You may need to install the Discord desktop app rather than just using the web interface.