So I'm in the process of writing a guide for (one way to) set up a website. TL;DR being able to make a post from a phone was a hard requirement, which pushed me towards a CMS instead of static site generation, which lead me to Grav. Grav is like wordpress, but without the hammercars, and a bit simpler. Still somewhat complex.
How the end website looks and acts depends a lot on what theme you use. I have been using a theme called "Hypertext" (github demo page) because it, unlike basically every other Grav theme, does not look like a "modern website". It's also very small and lighter on resources as a result.
This brings me to problem number 1: The layout options in Hypertext are pretty limited. This is fair enough, it's designed to be small and simple above all else, but I really really want to have a gallery. While it does have a few options for how "collections" are presented (see: Child Rendering), they're all basically just vertical ordered items in one way or another. Great for blogs, bad for galleries. It looks like there's some stub code for a "grid" layout in the gallery, but it looks unfinished and was commented out as being broken on mobile.
If I was just doing this for myself maybe I'd try to hack something together, but since I actually want other people to use this... I'm asking you all. Does this look like something that someone else would want to take a stab at?
(I'm probably going to hack away at it today anyway but I'm not optimistic)
Problem number 2 is that, from the perspective of just making a blog post easily, Grav's web UI isn't as intuitive as it could/should be. But that seems like a more complex problem to solve. I'm trying to have my guide fully finished, including running one or two people through it, by the 23rd or so. I don't see any changes to the admin panel happening in that timeframe, though it's something I might work on in the future if I'm feeling very brave.
