Re:Notes on Starting to Use Django
by stuaxo on Friday January 30, 2026 @04:41AM
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Wagtail is great for what it's good at.
If you've ever had to use Django-CMS you'd understand.
I went from a Wagtail project to a Django-CMS project (at a company that was upstreaming bits to Django-CMS) and there were so many things where it used the database badly (the usual antipattern of a loop over some queries).
It's easy to structure queries in django in an optimised way as long as you architect around .filter and not .get.
If you've ever had to use Django-CMS you'd understand.
I went from a Wagtail project to a Django-CMS project (at a company that was upstreaming bits to Django-CMS) and there were so many things where it used the database badly (the usual antipattern of a loop over some queries).
It's easy to structure queries in django in an optimised way as long as you architect around .filter and not .get.