WebGUI versus WordPress: An overview

Tags:

A different, and more detailed albeit slightly dated, feature comparison can be found at CMS-Matrix.

In general, WebGUI tends to bundle the most-used features, whereas WordPress leaves most of them to plugins. WordPress does have a vibrant plugin and theme community, but they are often outmoded and of varying quality.

WordPress, hosted on typical Shared or VPS

WebGUI typical V8

Language

PHP

Perl

Template System

Theme files, written in PHP

Template::Toolkit

HTML5 Framework

None by default. Built-in jQuery conflicts with Bootstrap.

YUI among others [wikipedia]

Object Orientation

Partly, built-in PHP

Moose[1]

Database

MySQL

MySQL, possible PostgreSQL support

Web Server

Apache

nginx

Web Server Linkage

mod_php

Plack [2]plackup, starman and starlet

Multi-Site

One WP install can serve multiple sub-sites, but many global variables mean unrelated virtual hosts require entirely separate installs

Object-oriented, so theorietically possible to have a single installation serve unlimited unrelated virtual hosts

  1. Particularly Moose attributes, method modifiers and roles.

  2. Plack::Response and Plack::Request objects