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