What’s New in Wagtail CMS | Release 2.15 | Accessibility, Wordpress to Wagtail & Editor Experience

This video features Tom Dyson at Wagtail Space 2026 .

What’s New in Wagtail CMS | Release 2.15 | Accessibility, Wordpress to Wagtail & Editor Experience
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Published July 19, 2023
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What's included in Wagtail CMS 2.15, updates to the editor experience, accessibility improvements, a new WordPress to Wagtail kit and more.

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In this Wagtail CMS update video, we highlight the following changes:

⇢ Design updates - the next-generation editor experience
⇢ Updates to Admin History
⇢ A new StreamField block type
⇢ All the details of the latest 2.15 release
⇢ Accessibility front-end changes
⇢ WordPress to Wagtail Kit
⇢ Exciting news about Wagtail Space 2022

Timestamps:
00:00 Introductions & speakers
02:18 The state of Wagtail, update by Tom Dyson, including hitting 500 contributors, exciting sponsorship news
04:32 Next-generation editor experience updates - improving the experience for users and accessibility
17:26 Extended functionality for logging capabilities in admin history - sponsored by The Motley Fool
22:09 WordPress to Wagtail Kit, an open-source package that migrates content into Wagtail - sponsored by The Motley Fool
28:54 Accessibility front-end changes, ongoing improvements for the Wagtail interface
37:17 What's included in Wagtail 2.15, long-term support release, Django 4.0 support, Python 3.10 support, jQuery 3.6.0 update, Node 14 updates, IE11 support dropped, updates for editors
48:54 New StreamField - table block to define different types

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