Wagtail vs WordPress

Both are self-hosted content management systems (cms) projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Wagtail scores 91 against WordPress's 81, putting it ahead on the strength of more recent releases. That measures project health, not feature fit — WordPress may still be the right choice if it does what you need.

	Wagtail	WordPress
Health score	91/100	81/100
Commits (11 mo)	1341	1841
Commits (last 3 mo)	608	649
Stars	21k	21k
Latest release	25 Aug 2026	none tagged
Licence	BSD-3-Clause	GPL-2.0
Built with	Python	PHP
Typical RAM	1 GB	1 GB

Wagtail

Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience.

91/100

Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 34/40

Releases 25/25

Community 18/20

Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 84% of tracked projects; popularity more than 88%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

WordPress

World's most-used blogging and CMS engine.

81/100

Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 35/40

Releases 13/25

Community 18/20

Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 88% of tracked projects; popularity more than 88%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

See every option in this category: self-hosted content management systems (cms).