Re:Django CMS version 3.3 has been released
by bennylope on Thursday June 09, 2016 @12:07PM
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I've used both as well and this perfectly crystallizes my thoughts on them. Integrating custom models felt a bit more cumbersome in Wagtail but I've mostly chalked that up to my own experience gap between the two CMSs.
The backend of Wagtail is completely geared towards authors, and a lot easier to use in my opinion, and it's got a media library built in. Django-CMS extends the standard django admin backend, may require a third party plugin for a media library, and tends to encourage more frontend editing, so authors will more immediately be able to see how a page looks. It also tends to be more flexible and can do more (which may be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your goals). If you need more control over permissioning, workflows, etc. then django-cms may be a better choice.
I personally love both of them, and would recommend either.