Laravel Blog Engine

A blog engine for Laravel with Filament admin panel integration. Manage posts, authors, and categories with automatic responsive image optimization.

Requirements

• PHP 8.3+
• Laravel 12 or 13
• Filament 5
• Spatie Laravel Media Library 11

Installation

composer require joaoolival/laravel-blog-engine
php artisan blog-engine:install
php artisan storage:link

Configuration

Publish the configuration file to customize resource labels, navigation, and icons:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="laravel-blog-engine-config"

You can customize the following for Posts, Authors, and Categories in config/laravel-blog-engine.php:

• label & plural_label: Custom names for resources.
• navigation_label: Label shown in the sidebar.
• navigation_group: Group resources under a specific sidebar group (default: "Blog").
• navigation_sort: Order in the navigation.
• navigation_icon: Heroicon name (e.g., heroicon-o-pencil) for the sidebar icon.

Authorization

To restrict access to blog resources, simply create Policies for the models (BlogPost, BlogAuthor, BlogCategory). Filament will automatically detect and enforce them.

This allows you to define granular permissions for who can view, create, update, delete, and restore resources.

php artisan make:policy BlogPostPolicy --model=\Joaoolival\LaravelBlogEngine\Models\BlogPost

Then register them in your application's AuthServiceProvider (or AppServiceProvider in newer Laravel versions).

For more details, see the Filament Resource Authorization documentation.

Basic Usage

use Joaoolival\LaravelBlogEngine\Facades\Blog;

$posts = Blog::getPublishedPosts(perPage: 12);
$post = Blog::getPostBySlug('my-post');
$authors = Blog::getAllAuthors();
$categories = Blog::getAllCategories();

Content & Responsive Images

Post content is stored as an HTML string (database longtext). When building APIs, use the provided HTTP Resources to automatically render content with responsive images:

use Joaoolival\LaravelBlogEngine\Http\Resources\Posts\BlogPostResource;

return new BlogPostResource($post);

The resource transforms the content HTML, finding image tags with data-id and replacing them with:

• WebP conversion
• srcset attributes for responsive loading
• Lazy loading and async decoding

Note: Accessing $post->content directly returns the raw HTML with custom attributes. Use BlogPostResource for fully rendered HTML with responsive images.

Facade Methods

| Method | Description | | --------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- | | getPublishedPosts(?int $perPage) | Published posts (paginated or collection) | | getPostBySlug(string $slug) | Single post by slug | | getRecentPosts(int $limit = 5) | Most recent posts (for sidebars) | | getRelatedPosts(BlogPost $post, int $limit = 4) | Related posts by category/tags | | searchPosts(string $query, ?int $perPage) | Search posts by title/excerpt/content | | getAllAuthors() | All visible authors | | getAuthorWithPosts(string $slug, ?int $perPage) | Author with their posts | | getAllCategories() | All visible categories | | getCategoryWithPosts(string $slug, ?int $perPage) | Category with its posts |

Models

BlogPost

| Attribute | Type | Description | | -------------- | ---------------- | ----------------------- | | title | string | Post title | | slug | string | URL-friendly identifier | | excerpt | string \| null | Short summary | | content | string \| null | HTML content (longtext) | | tags | array \| null | Post tags | | is_visible | bool | Visibility flag | | published_at | Carbon \| null | Publish date |

Scopes:

BlogPost::whereIsPublished()->get();
BlogPost::whereIsDraft()->get();
BlogPost::whereIsVisible()->get();

BlogAuthor

| Attribute | Type | | ---------------------------------------- | -------------- | | name, slug, email | string | | bio, github_handle, twitter_handle | string\|null |

BlogCategory

| Attribute | Type | | --------------------------------------------- | -------------- | | name, slug | string | | description, seo_title, seo_description | string\|null | | is_visible | bool |

Admin Panel

Access the Filament admin at /admin:

• /admin/blog-posts
• /admin/blog-authors
• /admin/blog-categories

Responsive Images

This package uses Spatie Media Library for image handling. Images are automatically converted to WebP with responsive variants.

For background processing, install Laravel Horizon:

composer require laravel/horizon
php artisan horizon:install
php artisan horizon

Generating Demo Content

Quickly populate your blog with dummy content using the blog:generate command:

php artisan blog:generate

This will prompt for the number of authors, categories, and posts to create (defaults: 1, 1, 12).

You can also pass options directly:

php artisan blog:generate --authors=3 --categories=5 --posts=50

Testing

composer test

Credits

• João Olival

Support

If you encounter any issues or have questions, please open an issue on GitHub.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.md.