Your Django CMS Is a Single-Developer Bus Factor Away From Being a Problem Nobody writes the post-mortem on this one. It usually starts quietly. Your lead Django developer takes another role. The marketing team raises a ticket about updating a hero image. It gets assigned to a junior dev who has never seen a Wagtail StreamField in production. Three hours later the staging environment is broken and the ticket is still open. This is not a hypothetical. It is the exact sequence of events that pushes engineering managers toward initiating a Wagtail to WordPress Migration conversation. Wagtail is a genuinely excellent CMS. It powers sites at NASA, Google, Mozilla, the NHS, and Oxfam. It is also a framework that requires a Python/Django developer on permanent standby to make any structural content changes. For organisations where the developer-to-content-editor ratio was never intended to be 1:1, that is a real operational cost. WordPress , by contrast, powers 43.6% of all websites globally in 2026.…