Editing WebGUI (section)

{{short description|Open-source content management system}}
{{more citations needed|date=August 2008}}
{{Infobox software
| logo                   = WebGUI logo.png
| logo upright           = yes
| name                   = WebGUI
| developer              = Plain Black Corporation
| latest release version = <!-- If you update this, remember to also update [[List of content management systems]]--> 7.10.30<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.webgui.org/post/136751315064/webgui-71030-stable-release |title=WebGUI 7.10.30 stable release |website=WebGUI Blog |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102002943/https://blog.webgui.org/post/136751315064/webgui-71030-stable-release |archive-date=2022-11-02}}</ref>
| latest release date    = {{start date and age|2016|01|06}}
| operating_system       = [[Cross-platform]]
| platform               = [[Perl]]
| genre                  = [[Content management system]]
| license                = [[GNU General Public License|GPL]]
| website                =
}}
'''WebGUI''' is an [[open-source software|open-source]] [[content management system]] written in [[Perl]]<ref name="Yang">{{cite book |last1=Yang |first1=Sharon Q. |last2=LiLi |first2=Li |date=2016 |title=Emerging Technologies for Librarians: A Practical Approach to Innovation |isbn=978-1843347880 |publisher=Chandos Publishing |page=196}}</ref> and released under the [[GNU General Public License]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/852030/software-the-best-content-management-systems.html |title=The best Content Management Systems |last=staff |first=Network World |work=Network World |access-date=2018-10-25 |language=en}}</ref>

The system permits non-technically minded users to arrange content in pages and layouts, containing 'Assets' ([[applet]]s) which permit [[website]] visitors to view and interact with various types of data from basic Articles to full-blown [[content management system]] and [[web application|custom application]]s.

In July 2014, Scott Walters proposed a project on [[Kickstarter]] to bring the nascent Version 8 rewrite to a formal release with a supporting [[free software]] community.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2083389021/create-perl-competition-to-the-php-content-managem | title=Create Perl Competition to the PHP Content Management System | date=7 February 2015 }}</ref> Version 8 is, according to the Kickstarter project page, "a massive modernization effort that reworked core to use [[Moose (Perl)|Moose]], [[Plack (software)|Plack]], Try::Tiny" along with a general code cleanup. The project achieved its [[crowd funding]] goal on July 16, 2014.