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Wagtail user guide

Welcome to the Wagtail user guide! The guide is here to help content editors, moderators, administrators, and other users learn how to use the Wagtail content management system (CMS).

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Getting started

Our tutorials will help you learn and master the different ways of creating and managing content in Wagtail. It’s the best place to get started.

How-to

Our how-to guides explain the simplest ways to achieve common tasks.

Concepts

Wagtail has strong opinions about CMS best practices. This section describes why Wagtail works how it does from a user’s perspective.

Reference

What is a Snippet? What does a permission do? Our reference material gets to the point, giving the key information at a glance.