Welcome to WebYep

WebYep is an opensource CMS (Content Management System). It can be used for people without web design or coding knowledge to safely edit the content of web pages, within their web browser. It can also be used if you need to push content edits remotely to a website.

You can use WebYep in as many websites as you like. This is not software that requires you to pay-per-site or signup for a subscription! The content you create or edit with WebYep is always retained under your ownership, and stored on your web server.

WebYep uses simple pop-up windows to let you or clients edit content directly on the page. This method of 'in-context editing' (sometimes also called inline editing) keeps the editing interface really fast and intuitive. Unlike some content management systems, WebYep does not take you off to far-distant pages on the backend of your website! Everything happens directly on the page you want to edit.

Another main difference to other web content management systems is that you do not need to create your whole website with WebYep. You can take any regular website and just make some parts of some pages editable, by replacing the static content with the appropriate WebYep elements.

WebYep can be classed as a 'flat-file CMS'. This means that instead of content being stored inside a complicated database, all the content (and uploaded files like images) are stored in a folder on the web server. A flat-file CMS (like WebYep) is generally easier to setup and manage. Particularly if you want to run backups or move the website to another server.

This documentation is intended to give you all necessary information for installing and configuring WebYep on your web server. Plus guidance on the code modifications needed to make sections of web pages editable with WebYep.

A basic knowledge of HTML and ability to manage files on a server with FTP is assumed. You can use WebYep with any HTML code editor; like VS Code, Sublime Text, Nova, Notepad++, or WebStorm. WebYep can also sometimes be used with a small selection of drag-and-drop website builders too, if you prefer using those instead.

WebYep is an opensource project. Anybody can fork the code on GitHub, to change and improve this CMS. It's not software that one particular company owns and can decide to discontinue or take away from you. WebYep has been in existance since about 2003.

We do hope you join the many of us around the globe, who share the passion of building top-notch, modern websites that incorprate WebYep!

Next, you may want to read about the installation & setup of WebYep, to get started.