- a fast, intuitive content authoring experience
- preview / submit / moderate / publish workflow
- a UI which scales to very large numbers of authors, pages, images
- powerful full-text search in the front- and back-ends
- strong support for image handling (e.g. animated gifs via Wand) and media embedding (OEmbed or Embedly)
As an agency, these points are all pretty much requirements for the sites we build. We couldn't find anything else which gave us these as well as allowing us to build models and templates in plain Django, and we had a client - the Royal College of Art - who agreed to let us open source Wagtail on the back of what we developed for them.
Sorry, I didn't mean my comment to come through as criticism to this particular project. I meant it as a more of a warning to people who might be tempted to use such a complex system for something like running a small few entries in their website. Chances are the effort to integrate it would be bigger than just writing a minimalistic thing in the existing codebase.
I agree that systems like these have a place if what you want is something akin to Drupal (but with a nicer codebase.)
That alone makes you slightly 'an island apart' as I now face the challenge of either:
a) build my own CRUD for parts of the system that aren't directly related to the CMS (products, crm etc etc)
or b) rely on integration with your admin - which I'm guessing isn't as extensible or mature as Django's
If Wagtail even attempted to smooth the differences between the two (i.e. a custom skin and some customizations to the default admin to make them more similar) then it might be a bearable compromise.
I worked with Django for about 4 years of my life, maybe more if we consider some proof-of-concept projects. Every single 'framework on top of the framework' (with the exception of Django REST Framework) I've tried has been 'almost perfect', but that little delta between what you have and perfection is impossible to bridge. Just the dependency hell introduced by some of the projects is reason enough to give up.
If all you want is a simple CMS with support for some markup and adding images/videos, you can throw that together using Django, the Markdown module and one of the myriad upload plugins in a couple of days. You want to provide RSS? Use the built-in feed system. You'll spend more time reading the documentation and tweaking the settings file than putting the whole thing together yourself.