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This Week in Wagtail: New tools & new talks at Wagtail Space šŸŒŸ

The Wagtail Team

30 October 2026

More fantastic talks to see at Wagtail Space 2026!

Wagtail Space 2026 18-20 November 2026

Weā€™ve added some more fantastic talks to our schedule since we last shared it with you. For our keynote speakers this year, weā€™re thrilled to have:

  • The State of Wagtail by Thibaud Colas

  • Betting on the Commons: How the French State Builds Websites with Wagtail by Emma Ghariani

  • Wagtail Personalisation with the Royal College of Art by Helen Roberts and Simon Evans

  • The Power of Opt-in AI: Building Digital Resilience in the Hype Era by Meagen Voss

  • What a Wagtail Migration Actually Takes by Michael Trythall

  • From Stories to Action: WWF-US and the Power of the Wagtail Platform by Diane Querey

  • Flipping the Script: The Builder Revolution and AI as Empowerment by Morten Rand-Hendricksen

And the other great talks you shouldnā€™t miss include:

  • A Wagtail Editor's Guide to GEO (aka really good SEO) by Emma Bennett Gigg and Beth Parnell

  • Agent readiness for Wagtail sites by Albina Starykova

  • Battle-Tested Wagtail: Running at Scale with Kubernetes by Calvin Hendryx-Parker

  • Beyond Doom: How Frugal AI tackles the real threats to our future by James Martin

  • How can a šŸ„· ninja help šŸ§‘ humans and šŸ¤– agents talk to šŸ¦ birds? by Sage Abdullah

  • Letā€™s get Atomic: Frontend components vs. Wagtail Block architecture by Luciano Ratamero

  • Measuring Web Emissions For a Wagtail Site by Adam Newman and Oliver Winks

  • Reinventing the "What's On" page in Wagtail by Jack Whitworth

  • Reliable and efficient page publishing with Wagtail by Jake Howard

  • Scaling translation operations in Wagtail-Localize by Rodrigo Yanez Pilgrim

  • Wagtail as a signage system for a brand new children's hospital by Ben Heasman

  • Wagtail Preen - a new codemod CLI tool for Wagtail by Maciej Baron

  • Who manages the content managers? by Mariana Bedran Lesche

  • Working with Blocks Beyond the Editor by Luan Fonseca

This event is 100% online and you can join as few or as many of the live talks live as you wish. By registering for free through Zoom Events, youā€™ll also have access to the recordings and can play them back whenever you want to.

You donā€™t want to miss out on these amazing speakers. Tickets are free and in only takes minutes to sign up.

How to protect yourself from the eMudhra CA key compromise

Core team member Jake Howard has some canā€™t-miss tips for protecting your Wagtail projects from a critical certificate compromise. Find out what you need to know and how to reduce your risks.

(And if you like Jakeā€™s advice, check out his talk at Wagtail Space too.)

Check out our new in-browser demo

We have a new way to spin up a quick demo of Wagtail CMS. Whether you need to convince a client or see if Wagtail would be a good fit for you while keeping your data local, the new bakerydemo-webassembly app spins up a lightweight browser demo for you to play with.

Our progress on DX for AI in Wagtail

You all told us what you wanted to see when we asked how you wanted us to support AI-generated coding back in May. Now, weā€™ve got a progress report from core team member Thibaud Colas summarizing all the AI tools and resources weā€™ve shipped.

(For more on this topic, donā€™t miss Thibaud giving The State of Wagtail talk at Wagtail Space 2026.)

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Until next time, thank you for reading! If you have a news item to contribute or a package release to report, please reach out to us through the Slack community or email us.

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