Using Wagtail CMS for collaborative content management
Unless you’re a one-man band, you’ve probably got a team of people going in and out of your website on any given day. They’ll be creating content, making updates and publishing items regularly. So, how efficient that process is really matters. Here’s how using Wagtail CMS for collaborative content management can transform your workflows and improve the quality and speed of your updates as standard.
What is collaborative content management?
You know how, when you use a OneDrive Word doc or Google Drive file, you can see other people who might be in the document making changes and updates in real time? Well, collaborative content management is basically that, but for the administration of your website updates. The umbrella term includes all the tools and processes that facilitate content creation, editing, storage, publication and sharing when multiple teams or users are involved. When done well, it can allow multiple people to work across your website at the same time without creating version issues or duplicating tasks.
What is Wagtail CMS?
A CMS is a content management system or a tool to make, store, edit, remix and publish all your brand’s stuff online. Wagtail CMS is an open-source one built on Python that devs like us really love for its streamlined code and endless customisability. Just look at the things we’ve made it do for clients like Prindex! It’s ideal for when a more ‘mainstream’ CMS like WordPress won’t give you the control or functionality you need without becoming bloated. If you don’t know what kind of CMS you need, don’t worry… we’re happy to advise.
Why are brands using Wagtail CMS for collaborative content management?
Well, Wagtail has a ton of incredible features you can use to manage your website tasks. If you have more than one person who needs to work on your site content at the same time, Wagtail CMS allows for version control, content locking, editorial workflows and customisable permissions for all its users. Their website explains that “Wagtail offers several features to help teams work together on content:
- Comments, so editors discuss and review content directly within the page editor.
- Workflows, for pages requiring a set moderation and approval process from draft to live.
- Scheduled publishing, so content updates can be planned ahead of time.
- Concurrent editing notifications, informing users who are editing the same page, reducing conflicts and confusion.”
Plus, their roadmap for future development includes the exact kind of collaboration you see in OneDrive and Google Docs. So, if you roll out with Wagtail today, you get great CMS collaboration from day one, but also a future state that’s only going to improve group working with real-time editing and more.
If you have Wagtail and don’t know how to make it work for content collaboration, we can help. Alternatively, if you’re on another platform and looking to transition into using Wagtail CMS for collaborative content management, talk to us today about your timelines.
