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Wagtail vs WordPress: catalog facts
Wagtail	WordPress
Free Free and open source under the BSD 3-Clause licence.	Free Free and open source under the GPL; you pay only for your own hosting.
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
StreamField gives editors flexible structured content Multi-site and multi-language support	Very large library of themes and plugins Visual block editor with live preview
Building a site requires Django and Python knowledge No hosted version from the project itself	Needs a PHP and database server to self-host Plugins and themes vary widely in quality and need updating
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: BSD-3-Clause	License: GPL-2.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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