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Wagtail CMS
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Wagtail is a Django content management system built originally for the `Royal College of Art <http://www.rca.ac.uk/>`_ and focused on flexibility and user experience. Its features include:

* A fast, attractive editor interface
* Complete control over design with standard Django templates
* Configure content types through standard Django models
* Tightly integrated search (with an `Elasticsearch <http://www.elasticsearch.org/>`_ backend for production)
* Strong document and image management
* Wide support for embedded content
* Simple, configurable permissions
* Support for tree-based content organisation
* Optional preview->submit->approve workflow
* Fast out of the box. `Varnish <https://www.varnish-cache.org/>`_-friendly if you need it
* Excellent test coverage

Find out more at `wagtail.io <http://wagtail.io/>`_.

Got a question? Ask it on our `Google Group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/wagtail>`_.

Getting started
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* To get you up and running quickly, we've provided a demonstration site with all the configuration in place, at `github.com/torchbox/wagtaildemo <https://github.com/torchbox/wagtaildemo/>`_; see the `README <https://github.com/torchbox/wagtaildemo/blob/master/README.md>`_ for installation instructions.
* See the `Getting Started <http://wagtail.readthedocs.org/en/latest/gettingstarted.html#getting-started>`_ docs for installation (with the demo app) on a fresh Debian/Ubuntu box with production-ready dependencies, on OS X and on a Vagrant box.
* `Serafeim Papastefanos <https://github.com/spapas>`_ has written a `tutorial <http://spapas.github.io/2014/02/13/wagtail-tutorial/>`_ with all the steps to build a simple Wagtail site from scratch.

Documentation
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Available at `wagtail.readthedocs.org <http://wagtail.readthedocs.org/>`_. and always being updated.

Compatibility
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Wagtail supports Django 1.6.2+ on Python 2.6 and 2.7. Django 1.7 and Python 3 support are in progress.

Contributing
~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you're a Python or Django developer, fork the repo and get stuck in! 

We suggest you start by checking the `Help develop me! <https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail/issues?labels=Help+develop+me%21>`_ label.

Send us a useful pull request and we'll post you a `t-shirt <https://twitter.com/WagtailCMS/status/432166799464210432/photo/1>`_.