As part of my post-cohost website proliferation, I've been using [Publii](https://getpublii.com/) for both my [photo blog](https://nickshere.com/) and [landing page](http://kukkurovaca.com/). I like it a lot -- it's about as user friendly for non-technical users as something like Wordpress is, but it just spits out static sites. The image gallery functionality is somewhat mediocre, but I can live with it. The available free themes are a little limiting. I'm using [Mercury](https://marketplace.getpublii.com/themes/mercury/) for the photo blog and it's okay, but if you don't put a featured image in your post it simply _will not display_ and that's hilarious. Several of the other themes also do not behave gracefully if posts are missing featured images. If I'm using it as a photo blog, then this shouldn't be an issue, right? Ehhhhhhh....sort of. Every post has images, but the featured post sits at the top of the page, and oftentimes I would want a paragraph of text to be the first thing in the post. Publii doesn't have sensible fallbacks of using the first image as the featured image, or displaying the post title instead of the featured image. Some searching turned up a reasonable workaround, but [it requires tweaking the theme files](https://forum.getpublii.com/topic/how-to-remove-featured-picture-from-posts/)to add the option to suppress the featured post. Then you can upload the first image twice (waste of storage, sure) so that the theme has its precious thumbnail, but not have it clutter up the flow of the post. That's an okay solution, but it should really be incorporated into the standard themes at this point. Another thing I just noticed is that there's a bunch of fonts available in a drop-down for the user to set their own body font...but that body font is not inherited by blockquotes and there is no drop-down for choosing a blockquote font, although there are separate settings for the headers. I'm not sure whether this is an oversight in Publii's UI or in the theme's settings, but either way, it's both funny and annoying. It's entirely possible that the premium themes are better constructed, and I'm not averse to paying for them....but I would be kind of mad to pay money for them and then find the same issues there, and I'm not sure how to ascertain without paying first.