I'm a fan of Wagtail, built on Django.
Much more setup to get configured, but it's far more customizable and stable once you do.
Much more setup to get configured, but it's far more customizable and stable once you do.
WordPress may be a bit directly comparable to https://www.coderedcorp.com/cms/
It's just a few extensions on Wagtail that let you get started with common page models for blogging and generic websites out of the box.
I often think of Wagtail as a framework for building your CMS, where as WordPress is a pre-built CMS.
Disclaimer: I'm on the Wagtail core team.
On top of that (assuming that extra investment is possible / desirable) the abstractions layered on top of django are quite opaque and have a steep learning curve. Having to code standard CMS functionalities becomes an eye-rolling exercise.
You only said you thought it wasn't ready for prime time, which I think a reasonable interpretation is that you were saying you didn't think it was ready for production use.
> Would bet that none of those production deployments are without some non-negligible developer time investment.
That's the thing, I think the time invested is pretty negligible. Especially when compared to maintaining wordpress and having to deal with plugin craziness.
> Having to code standard CMS functionalities becomes an eye-rolling exercise.
You only really have to setup models for pages, tags, categories etc, after that the editor is incredibly functional.