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Wagtail Live

Wagtail Live is a Wagtail CMS package to create live blog pages.

About

With Wagtail Live:

  • Reporters can instantly publish to a live blog by submitting messages via mobile apps.
  • Audience can read the posts right away as the live blog page instantly updates.
  • Content editors can edit messages via the Wagtail Admin. The internal format is a normal Wagtail page with streamfield and blocks.
  • Create, update, delete operations.
  • Rich text, images, emojis, URLs are converted to embeds.

Slack and a Live blog page:

Wagtail Live: Slack and live blog page

Content is also editable via the Wagtail admin:

Wagtail Live: Page edit view

Compatibility

Wagtail Live works with:

  • Wagtail 2.12 or higher
  • Django 2.2 or higher
  • Python 3.7 or higher

Getting started

To get started with Wagtail Live, check out the Wagtail Live tutorial.

Documentation

All documentation is in the "docs" directory and online at wagtail.github.io/wagtail-live/.

Community

We have a wagtail-live channel in Wagtail's Slack workspace for discussions about the project.

Contributing - Testing

To contribute to Wagtail Live or run the test suite, refer to the development section of the docs.

Google Summer of Code

This project is part of Google Summer of Code 2021 by Tidiane Dia. Check out the GSOC report.

Sponsors

Wagtail-live provides a publisher based on PieSocket.

PieSocket offers a 'free-plus' plan to all our users. See the link above for details.