ʻAʻole like me nā mea hana static-site i hiki ʻole ke hoʻohana a paʻakikī hoʻi e hoʻohana, hāʻawi ʻo Publii i kahi UI maʻalahi e hoʻomaopopo e like me nā CMS i hoʻokumu ʻia e ka server e like me WordPress a i ʻole Joomla!, kahi e hiki ai i nā mea hoʻohana ke hana i nā pou a me nā ʻike pūnaewele ʻē aʻe, a kāhiko i kā lākou pūnaewele me ka hoʻohana ʻana i nā ʻano kumuhana a me nā koho. Hiki i nā mea hoʻohana ke hauʻoli i nā pōmaikaʻi o kahi pūnaewele static super-wikiwiki a paʻa, me ka ʻoluʻolu a pau i hāʻawi ʻia e kahi CMS.

ʻO ka mea i ʻoi aku ka ʻokoʻa o ka Publii ʻo ia ka holo ʻana o ka app ma ka ʻāina ma kāu pākaukau ma mua o ka kikowaena pūnaewele. Loaʻa no Windows, Mac, Linux ke hoʻokomo ʻia ka app hiki iā ʻoe ke hana i kahi pūnaewele i nā minuke, ʻoiai me ka ʻole o ka pūnaewele; ʻoiai ʻo Publii he polokalamu papapihi hiki iā ʻoe ke hana, hoʻohou a hoʻololi i kāu pūnaewele ma waho, a laila e hoʻouka i nā loli i kāu kikowaena ma ke kaomi ʻana i kahi pihi. Kākoʻo ʻo Publii i nā koho hoʻouka he nui, me nā kikowaena HTTP/HTTPS maʻamau, Netlify, Amazon S3, GitHub Pages a me Google Cloud a i ʻole SFTP.