Choosing a CMS is one of the most consequential decisions in any web project. Get it wrong and you're locked into a system that fights you at every turn. Get it right and the CMS becomes a genuine superpower.
The Problem with Headless-Only CMS
Headless CMS tools are powerful but often require a lot of custom frontend work. For content-heavy sites, that overhead adds up fast.
What Makes Wagtail Different
Wagtail sits in a sweet spot: it's a full-featured Django CMS with a beautiful admin, StreamField for flexible content modelling, and enough flexibility to go headless if needed.
StreamField is a Game Changer
The ability to define your own content blocks and let editors compose pages from them — without rigid templates — is genuinely powerful.