Laravel Blog - Based on Laravel v5.6.5

This is a sample blog based on Laravel 5.6 framework and Bootstrap 4.

Features!

• Blogs/Articles
• Categories
• Comments
• Featured Image
• Admin Area
• Role Based Access
• RSS Feed
• Subscribers
• SEO Friendly
• Social Friendly
• Automated Emails On Registration with Queue/Job
• Automated Emails on Subscriber with Queue/Job
• Automated Emails for newsletters with Queue/Job
• Laravel Migrations
• Laravel Seeders
• Simple & Minimal UI Design

Tech

This blog project uses some open source projects and free projects to work properly:

• Twitter Bootstrap 4 - great UI boilerplate for modern web apps
• Laravel 5.6.5 - Framework for Web Artisans
• jQuery - duh
• FontAwesome - Design savy icons for developers
• TinyMCE - WYSIWYG rich text editor
• DataTable - Easily Manage Data sets for management purpose using jquery
• Sluggable - make slugs easily in laravel
• Roumen Feed - make RSS Feed easily in laravel
• Yajra Laravel Datatables - Easily integrat DataTable backend for laravel

And of course blog project itself is open source with a public repository on GitHub.

Minimum Requirements

• PHP >= 7.1.3
• MySQL >= 5.0.12
• OpenSSL PHP Extension
• PDO PHP Extension
• Mbstring PHP Extension
• Tokenizer PHP Extension
• XML PHP Extension
• Ctype PHP Extension
• JSON PHP Extension

Installation Guide

1. git clone https://github.com/mubbi/laravel-blog-5.6.5.git
2. cd laravel-blog-5.6.5
3. composer install
4. rename .env.example to .env
5. php artisan key:generate
6. Edit file config/app.php & .env - and set your correct app url
7. Edit file config/database.php - and set your DB connection details
8. php artisan migrate --seed
9. php artisan storage:link
10. set mailtrap credentials in .env file to avoid swift email errors
11. After installing, you may need to configure some permissions. Directories within the "storage" and the "bootstrap/cache" directories should be writable by your web server or the project will not run.
12. Register in the application as the first user and get all admin roles by default

NOTE: Automatic user registration activation emails and subscriber verification emails are sent using the queue worker, therefore you must enable the queue worker on the project: https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/queues#running-the-queue-worker

Weekly Newsletter Guide

1. Set Queue Driver in .env or config/queue.php file
2. Follow: https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/scheduling#introduction
3. From the above link learn how to make a cron job for schedule:run
4. Once this cron job is set for every minute then the weekly emails will be sent automatically

Screenshots

Home Page

Admin Area

License

GNU GPLv3