This is why I use Publii https://getpublii.com
It's open source, free static CMS with GUI and free themes.
You can easily sync your website with Netlify, GitHub Pages, Google Cloud, S3 or SFTP.
It's open source, free static CMS with GUI and free themes.
You can easily sync your website with Netlify, GitHub Pages, Google Cloud, S3 or SFTP.
1) Themes are too limited, there are <10 and the path to customization is not simple. This is a chicken and egg problem, if publii grows, more themes come into the marketplace, but only having a few themes limits growth.
2) Even though it has a pretty good GUI, it is still confusing for non-technical people, and I struggled a lot with it too, mostly because there aren't tooltips next to fields to explain them (e.g. what is the difference between a "title" and a "label" for a link?)
I'll have to unfortunately move to something else for my client, and revisit publii at a later time.
PS: In fact, there are 10 themes at this moment but show me the same quality, free themes that come with other static generators.
I never saw this feature listed when looking at Publii, which kept me from trying it.
Note, please don't say just sync down from the server before doing anything locally; I don't want that to be the point of record. I'd rather that be Git.