Mezzanine VS Wagtail

I've recently started playing around with Mezzanine, a django-based CMS. I recently just managed to configure Fabric to get it uploading to my host, webfaction.com, as its a bit more involved automatically creating the website on the shared hosting, and I wanted to automate that process.

To give you a better idea of how Python-based applications work on our servers, we’ll show you how to install the Django framework-powered Mezzanine CMS on our platform via SSH.

There is also Mezzanine / Cartridge which is kinda like WordPress / WooCommerce in the PHP world, it’s primarily for a website that may have a shop added to it. Be aware that this is also somewhat legacy, last time I checked it was kinda in maintenance mode and the variant system for products was super limited.

Mezzanine / Cartridge is similar to WooCommerce in the WordPress world, if you are wanting to add a shop to an existing site then this is a decent option. The problem with it is that the main dev on it went off to work for Google so it’s more or less in maintenance mode and the product variant system is very basic.

mezzanine is probably a simpler one. it recently just got revived and their 5.0 release is now in rc1 state. There's also django-fiber which seems to be quite simple (not much code, one app to add only)

If you like Python 🐍 then check out this project. Wagtail is a popular CMS, combining Django’s powerful customization capabilities with a slick user interface. The newest update brings Django 5.0 support, a new searchable and filterable listing UI, the accessibility checker built into the admin interface, and a brand new 10-step tutorial for developers. This release marks Wagtail's 10th birthday 🎂. Happy birthday to the team and all the best for the next ten years and beyond 🥳.

Repo : https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail

- The discussion thread we use to track all public feedback: https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/discussions/9553. Comments very welcome.

Not so long ago, I submitted a Pull Request in wagtail to improve the admin performance, especially for non-superusers. Basically, it caches all the user's permissions on first access. However, I was pretty sure that this would load a lot of model fields that we never need but there isn't a tool that gives us that type of report. Therefore, I started building an app that keeps track of all fields accessed so you can easily know which ones haven't been used and apply the only/defer optimisation for Django querysets.

Wagtail would be a good example https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/tree/main/wagtail/tests

Paarth moving from no contributions to the 21st most contributions - https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/graphs/contributors.

Over the last few years, I have had the incredible opportunity to be a core team member of the Wagtail project. In that time, I have reviewed many new pull requests, and I’ve also had the chance to submit many of my own across Wagtail and many other projects.

Wagtail 2.15 is the most recent LTS (Long Term Support) release, so it’s not a bad release to stick to at all, at least until February 2023.