We designed Wagtail as a content management system that could optionally reference your existing models, but we've become increasingly aware that for many users, existing Django models are the primary content. In response, Andy Babic (from UK agency Rock Kitchen Harris) developed wagtailmodeladmin, a powerful app which brings Django admin-style functionality into Wagtail's UI. After three months of answering support requests with 'just install wagtailmodeladmin' we asked Andy to help us move the app into Wagtail itself. After a one day sprint at Torchbox, a sleeker, faster, tested-er WMA became part of Wagtail, just in time for 1.5.

Note that modeladmin works equally well for Wagtail pages, images and documents, which are also 'just' Django models. If your site has 100,000 news articles, ModelAdmin can help you filter them by author and publication date. If you have an enormous image library, your editors might like a view of photos grouped by category or size or photographer.

See the docs for a full list of ModelAdmin's features. If you've been using the third party app, see the README for upgrade instructions. Many thanks to Andy for his contribution and RKH for their generous support.