Blogzo - Full-Stack Blog Platform React

Blogzo is a modern, feature-rich blogging system where visitors can read posts, browse by category and author, comment, and subscribe to the newsletter. Registered users can create and manage their own posts (with optional admin approval). The site supports custom pages (e.g. About, Privacy), a contact form, configurable menus, and multiple ad slots. Administrators get a dedicated panel to manage users, categories, posts (including pending approval), comments, contact messages, custom pages, menus, social links, newsletter, email (SMTP) and ad settings, and general site options. The frontend is responsive, supports dark/light theme, and uses a rich text editor (CKEditor) for post and newsletter content. Email verification, password reset, and profile features (avatar, email change, password change) are included and work with optional SMTP configuration.

Features

Public Site

Feature Description Home Latest posts, pagination (configurable), breaking strip with marquee, sidebar (categories, popular/recent posts, newsletter signup). Posts Slug-based URLs, featured image with alt/caption, rich HTML (CKEditor), author, date, view count, social share (Facebook, X, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, copy link, email, print), related posts, ad slots. Categories Parent/child (subcategories). URLs: /category/:slug or /category/:parent/child. Authors Author page by username with avatar and posts. Custom pages Static pages by slug (e.g. About, Privacy). Content edited with CKEditor in admin. Contact Contact form. Messages stored and viewable in admin; optional email to admin. Comments Comment and reply; optional approval; “time ago” display; admin can view, approve, delete. Newsletter Footer signup. Admin can manage subscribers and send newsletters (CKEditor); selective send. Menus Configurable top bar, header, and footer links (from admin). Footer Configurable “about” text and social links (Font Awesome icon classes). Branding Logo and favicon upload in admin; logo in header, favicon in browser tab. Theme Dark/light mode toggle; preference in localStorage. SEO & Ads Per-page title; site title, description, keywords; Google Analytics; ad slots (header, footer, sidebar, post, etc.).

User Account

Feature Description Register Username, email, full name, password, confirm password. Optional email verification. Login / Logout Token-based. Forgot password and reset password (link by email). Profile Edit name; avatar (upload/remove); email change (with verification); change password. Password show/hide toggle. Dashboard Create, edit, delete own posts. CKEditor with image upload; category; featured image; excerpt; draft/publish. Optional post verification by admin.

Requirements

• PHP 7.4+ (with PDO MySQL, JSON, mbstring extensions)
• MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB
• Node.js 18+ and npm (only on your computer, for building the frontend)
• cPanel hosting (or any Apache web server)

Instructions

Demo

Demo Link: https://demo.products.techrobot.in/blogzo Admin Email: admin@admin.com Password: 123456 User Email: user@user.com Password: 123456

Changelog

21 March 2026 – Version 1.0

- Initial Release