LaraMag - Laravel News & Magazine Multilingual System

Latest Version 6.4.0 Release Feb 20, 2023 Click HERE to view the Changelog

• Improve UI
• Fix preview PDF file in admin panel
• Fix UI for installer
• Allow tag in editor
• Fix issues when importing locations
• Add Google Analytics 4 support
• Fix issue when activate plugin Language from Admin panel
• Update maintenance mode view
• Add alt for image in Media
• Add option to disable installer
• Fix get file size issue with Digital Ocean Spaces
• Clear Google Fonts cache and validate font URL

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LaraMag – Laravel News & Magazine Multilingual System

Note: We just provide free installation service for hosting using Cpanel or Direct Admin. If you’re using VPS, you need to install Cpanel or Direct Admin. We don’t provide installation service on localhost.

Demo

• Homepage:
• Admin Area: /admin
• Username: botble
• Password: 159357

Note: default username & password are autofilled.

Key Features

• Page, blog, menu, contact, gallery, sliders… modules are provided with the use of components to avoid boilerplate code.
• RSS feeds for posts /feed/posts
• Multi language support. Unlimited number of languages.
• SEO & sitemap support: access sitemap.xml to see more.
• Powerful media system, also support Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces
• Google Analytics: display analytics data in admin panel.
• Translation tool: easy to translate front theme and admin panel to your language.
• Magazine theme is ready to use.
• Powerful Permission System: Manage user, team, role by permissions. Easy to manage user by permissions.
• Admin template comes with color schemes to match your taste.
• Fully Responsive: Compatible with all screen resolutions
• Coding Standard: All code follow coding standards PSR-2 and best practices

Notes:

• CONSIDERING PURCHASING OUR ITEM? Please view our support section for important notes and questions.
• This product doesn’t include some tools for developers in CMS version. It’s used to quickly develop new modules. We’ve removed CRUD generator, theme/widget generator in CMS version to reduce the price.
• Images used in the demo are not included in the download package. They are used for demo purposes only.

Free plugins

There are some free plugins available on our Marketplace:

Those plugins are working fine for products based on Botble CMS.

We won’t support free plugins and free plugins may not compatible with the current version. If you need support for free plugins, please create an issue on GitHub, the plugin’s author will support you.

Don’t forget to give us a star on GitHub repository if you use our free plugins.

Requirements

• Apache, nginx, or another compatible web server.
• PHP >= 8.0 >> Higher
• MySQL Database server
• PDO PHP Extension
• OpenSSL PHP Extension
• Mbstring PHP Extension
• Exif PHP Extension
• Fileinfo Extension
• XML PHP Extension
• Ctype PHP Extension
• JSON PHP Extension
• Tokenizer PHP Extension
• Module Re_write server
• PHP_CURL Module Enable

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Changelog

Version 6.4 – Feb 20, 2023

- Improve UI
- Fix preview PDF file in admin panel
- Fix UI for installer
- Allow tag in editor
- Fix issues when importing locations
- Add Google Analytics 4 support
- Fix issue when activate plugin Language from Admin panel
- Update maintenance mode view
- Add alt for image in Media
- Add option to disable installer
- Fix get file size issue with Digital Ocean Spaces
- Clear Google Fonts cache and validate font URL

Version 6.3 – Jan 21, 2023

- Add admin notifications.
- Add Google Fonts cache on local disk.
- Improve multi-language.
- Improve core & performance.
- Improve shortcode admin config.

Version 6.2 – Jan 02, 2023

- Improve multi-language.
- Improve form builder.
- Improve date picker, switch to use  for better UI.
- Improve media system: add crop image feature and improve download feature.
- Add backup clean command.
- Make editor extendable.
- Make CKEditor support RTL.
- Fix SEO title (issue with & character).

Version 6.1 – Dec 21, 2022

- Improve email template. Add Twig function.
- Improve multi-language.
- Add canonical tag for page, post, category, tag & gallery.
- Able to update free plugins directly in Admin -> Plugins.
- Fix Wasabi & BunnyCDN media driver.
- Fix issue when enable page speed options in settings.
- Fix sitemap JS libraries.

Version 6.0 – Dec 08, 2022

- Upgrade to Laravel framework 9.x
- Drop PHP 7.x support.
- Add option to install plugins from marketplace.botble.com in Admin -> Plugins.
- Add option to clean up site data.
- Change default Google Fonts CDN URL to fonts.bunny.net.
- Improve performance.
- Improve sitemap queries.
- Improve core & UI.

Version 5.31 – Nov 07, 2022

- Add installer package.
- Add get started package, show on the first installation.
- Add an option to allow limit max upload filesize.
- Add option to disable cache in the admin panel.
- Fix cache errors when upgrading to a new version.
- Remove duplicate meta viewport.
- Improve email template.
- Improve multi-language.
- Improve shortcode & SEO helper.
- Refactor code & improve performance.

Version 5.30 – Sep 28, 2022

- Add blog schema settings.
- Fix pagespeed optimization and language route prefix.
- Fix file upload visibility.
- Fix bug contact form when activating page speed optimization.
- Improve shortcode.
- Improve queries performance.
- Refactor code
- Improve UI.

Version 5.29 – Aug 22, 2022

- Fix missing toolbar "direction" on editor.
- Fix JS validation error.
- Improve email template settings.
- Add authentication API.
- Add preview for document type in Media.
- Add Catalonia flag.
- Fix issue on PHP 8.1
- Fix cache issue.
- Improve core
- Hotfix export translations issue.

Version 5.28 – Jul 13, 2022

- Add option to download available translation files from GitHub.
- Prevent issue when deactivating plugin Language.
- Move folder /resources/lang to /lang.
- Fix media URL.
- Add permission to manage license.
- Improve menu.
- Improve cache system (fix cache won't be cleared after translating data).
- Improve performance.
- Improve menu.
- Improve UI.
- Improve license activation.
- Fix theme translations.
- Improve plugin Backup.
- Update libraries / third-party package to the latest version.

Version 5.27 – May 23, 2022

- Add custom HTML shortcode.
- Add text direction toolbar to editor.
- Add option to add custom HTML to header, body or footer of page.
- Add option to regenerate media thumbnails from admin panel.
- Add memory limit & max execution time info to system information page.
- Add option to add watermark for images in specific folders.
- Allow to redirect all 404 requests to homepage.
- Add DB index to some tables.
- Handle error when activating license.
- Fix multi-language for plugin Gallery.
- Fix image rotate issue when cropping thumbnails.
- Fix media download on PHP 8.
- Fix Admin RTL mode.
- Improve contact form: add math captcha, blacklist words & domains to prevent spam mails.
- Improve multi-language.
- Improve dashboard widgets style & pagination.
- Improve license system.
- Improve admin bar.
- Refactor code.
- Update libraries.
- Optimize queries.

Version 5.26 – Mar 22, 2022

- Fix language advanced plugin.
- Fix plugin activation.
- Fix menu contains &
- Improve editor.
- Refactor code & improve queries.
- Update Laravel framework to 8.83.5.

Version 5.25 – Feb 19, 2022

- Fix issue with Cloudflare SSL.
- Fix tree category & social links.
- Fix duplicate shortcode in CKEditor.
- Fix saving SEO meta tags.
- Improve license.
- Improve permalink.
- Improve dashboard widgets.
- Improve core.
- Prevent Method Not Allowed error when use ajax DELETE/PUT.
- Add schema for post & page.
- Update AWS S3 settings.

Version 5.24 – Dec 22, 2021

- Fix saving meta box data.
- Improve editor & media.
- Improve multi-language.
- Improve theme translations.
- Improve RTL style.
- Update AWS S3 settings: add AWS Endpoint.
- Refactor code.

Version 5.23 – Nov 18, 2021

- Add featured posts slider.
- Fix missing post format.
- Fix UI issue with select2 fields.
- Fix Admin Bar settings.
- Fix some small issues when upgrading to Bootstrap 5.
- Improve multi-language.
- Improve social login.
- Improve updater, using PclZip if Zip module is not enabled.
- Improve UI.
- Improve slug package.
- Improve shortcode.
- Improve plugin Analytics, view analytics data by daterange.
- Improve core & UI.
- Improve RTL mode.
- Update to the latest Laravel version 8.72.0.
- Optimize queries performance.

Version 5.22 – Oct 18, 2021

- Upgrade admin theme to Bootstrap 5.
- Add system updater. 1-click update to the latest version.
- Add BunnyCDN cloud storage.
- Fix bug admin email, login backgrounds.
- Fix featured posts block on mobile.
- Update to the latest Laravel version 8.64.0
- Improve RTL mode.
- Improve UI & Editors.
- Improve cookie consent (Added minimal style).
- Improve core.
- Optimize queries performance.

Version 5.21 – Sep 13, 2021

- Fix theme migration & issue when activating plugin Language.
- Fix admin email.
- Fix cache issue in media.
- Improve theme custom CSS/JS.
- Improve plugin Blog & Newsletter.
- Improve allowed iframe types.
- Handle TokenMismatchException.
- Prevent error when missing watermark image.
- Update to the latest Laravel version 8.60.0
- Improve core.
- Optimize queries performance.

Version 5.20 – Aug 23, 2021

- Fix Contact plugin with the new editor.
- Improve shortcode. Make it easier to modify added shortcodes.
- Improve editor & clean XSS.
- Update theme UI.
- Update to the latest Laravel version 8.55.0
- Improve core.
- Optimize queries performance.

Version 5.19 – Jul 27, 2021

- Update CKEditor and TinyMCE to the latest version (version 5).
- Update media: Add a button to download media files from URL.
- Able to add multiple admin emails in Admin -> Settings -> General.
- Big change on blog categories. Hierarchical tree structured category 

Version 5.18 – Jul 14, 2021

- Add Wasabi cloud storage support.
- Allow to config the default placeholder image.
- Improve media, translations & backup.
- Improve UI.
- Optimize queries.
- Refactor code & improve performance.
- Fix some bugs on PHP 8.

Version 5.17 – Jun 13, 2021

- Added RTL support for the admin panel.
- Fix some errors on PHP 8.
- Fix blog API.
- Improve media, fix some errors with SVG.
- Improve UI.
- Optimize queries.
- Refactor code & improve performance.

Version 5.16 – May 10, 2021

- Fix error on table Posts when plugin Author activated.
- Fix change user's password.
- Remove unused services in Google Client API services to reduce app size.
- Fix color field.
- Update theme options & handle errors when saving custom CSS.
- Optimize queries.
- Refactor code & improve performance.

Version 5.15 – Apr 14, 2021

- Add plugin Author & Ads manager.
- Add option to turn off automatic URL translation into Latin.
- Add option to force URL & schema.
- Improve email templates.
- Fix bug Serialization of 'GdImage' is not allowed.
- Refactor code & optimize performance.

Version 5.14 – Mar 02, 2021

- New option to add custom JS in Admin -> Appearance -> Custom JS.
- Added setting in Admin -> Settings -> General to change login screen backgrounds.
- Improve dashboard widgets.
- Improve page SEO meta.
- Improve breadcrumbs.
- Fix permission issue on Contact plugin.
- Fix some bugs on PHP 8.

Version 5.13 – Feb 06, 2021

- Upgraded to Laravel 8.
- Update JS/CSS assets.
- Improve admin language settings.
- Improve permalinks.
- Fix language plugin.
- Fix bugs on PHP 8.
- Refactor code & optimize UI.

Version 5.12 – Jan 19, 2021

- Add RSS feed plugin. Demo: /feed/posts
- Update seeders.
- Update error pages, make it more simple.
- Improve UI gallery images, update Google fonts & fix cookie consent.
- Improve media URL.
- Improve core & optimize queries.
- Remove unused CSS/JS libraries.
- Fix postCSS, upgrade to Laravel Mix 6.0

Version 5.11 – Dec 10, 2020

- Add search box.
- Improve responsive.
- Update translations, added missing keys.
- Update cookie consent.
- Improve DO Spaces integration.
- Improve error pages.
- Fix roles & permissions.
- Optimize page speed and performance.

Version 5.10 – Nov 14, 2020

- Update menu: optimize queries, cache menu URL for better performance.
- Optimize queries on menu & widgets.
- Update Cookie consent: Add option to change background color, text color.
- Update error pages, make it more beautiful.
- Update UI contact form, galleries.
- Improve permalink & custom CSS page.
- Improve Analytics plugin, make it compatible with PHP 7.4.
- Fix theme translations: new keys in English doesn't show in other languages.
- Fix IP in activity logs, allow IP v6.
- Refactor code.

Version 5.9 – Oct 14, 2020

- Fix multi-language with Ajax.
- Fix views count.
- Update contact form with Ajax.
- Update email encryption settings.
- Improve Recaptcha: add an option to hide the v3 badge.
- Improve export posts to csv, excel.
- Apply PurgeCSS to remove unused css, make it loads faster.
- Improve theme UI.
- Refactor code.

Version 5.8 – 15-09-2020

- Update to Laravel version 7.28
- Update homepage & blog page settings. Now, it's moved into Appearance -> Theme options.
- Move settings for Cookie Consent into Appearance -> Theme options.
- Add theme options to enable/disable Facebook chat, Facebook comments.
- Add settings for watermark. Now, you can add watermark by changing settings in Admin -> Settings -> Media.
- Allow to change permalink in Admin -> Settings -> Permalinks.
- Add language settings. Allow to set default language in Admin -> Settings -> General.
- Allow admin to login using email or username.
- Optimize queries to make site loads faster.
- Update UI.
- Refactor code.
- Fix webpack.mix.js config, issue with path on Windows.
- Fix assets path.
- Fix copy folder in Admin -> Media.

Version 5.7 – 05-08-2020

- Upgrade to the latest Laravel framework version 7.22.
- Deprecated some media functions: `is_image`, `get_image_url`, `get_object_image`, `rv_media_handle_upload`.
Replacements: `RvMedia::isImage()`, `RvMedia::getImageUrl()`, `RvMedia::handleUpload()`.
- Add support **Digital Ocean Spaces**.
- Fix timezone, it doesn't work before.
- Fix filter posts.
- Update email settings. Add support **SES**, **Postmark**, **Array**, **Log**.
- Improve performance & refactor source code.
- Improve license system, make it works better.

Version 5.6 – 03-07-2020

- Update to the latest Laravel version 7.18.
- Optimize database queries.
- Add support Recaptcha v3.
- Improve cookie consent.
- Fix bugs plugin Language.
- Add default open graph image.
- Improve admin UI.
- Refactor code.

Version 5.5 – 29-05-2020

- Update to the latest Laravel version 7.13.
- Improve media module: support upload chunk size.
- Improve email system.
- Move `js-validation` package to `core`.
- Upgrade jQuery to v3.5.1 and Bootstrap 4.5.0.
- Improve admin UI.
- Refactor code.

Version 5.4 – 01-05-2020

- Update to the latest Laravel version 7.8.
- Refactor code & optimize performance.
- Add backup commands:
- php artisan cms:backup:create
- php artisan cms:backup:restore
- php artisan cms:backup:remove
- php artisan cms:backup:list
- Fix image's watermark.
- Change default avatar, remove Gravatar as default avatar.
- Fix widget & plugin language.
- Remove package `davejamesmiller/laravel-breadcrumbs`, build own breadcrumbs.
- Fix theme options when using `editor` field.

Version 5.3 – 29-03-2020

- Update to the latest Laravel version 7.3
- Improve source code.
- Add plugin Translation.
- Improve plugin language. When add/remove a language, it also adds/removes language files in /resources/lang.
- Update UI.
- Refactor code.

Version 5.2 – 12-03-2020

- Upgrade to Laravel 7.x
- Improve source code.
- Add package `js-validation` & `sitemap`
- Fix context menu in media.
- Fix bug when changing admin's password.
- Update translations.
- Update UI.
- Refactor code.

Version 5.1 – 08-02-2020

- Update admin theme.
- Improve source code.
- Fix media upload.

Version 5.0 – 20-01-2020

- Change admin theme to make it more awesome.
- Add license.
- Update Ckeditor to allow to add image's caption.
- Fix ACL module.

Version 4.2 – 06-01-2020

- Fix bug upload avatar in plugin member.
- Fix permission issue when changing language.
- Fix dev commands.
- Fix error when creating new role.
- Fix page title.
- Fix logo in email.
- Fix menu & audit log.
- Fix sort order in dashboard widgets.
- Update UI in login/register form for member.
- Update plugin `social login` to support plugin member.
- Update country flags.
- Update latest code from Laravel framework.
- Deprecated function `setModuleName()` in forms.
- Using package `mews/purifier` to prevent XSS attack.
- Add plugin `cookie consent`.
- Refactor code.

Version 4.1 – 01-12-2019

- Fix bug in plugin member.
- Improve media.
- Change to use `laravel/tinker` 2.0
- Change to use `mpociot/laravel-apidoc-generator` 4.0
- Add command `php artisan cms:plugin:make:crud` (Video tutorial: 
- Fix UI
- Add config for Travis CI
- Fix mail variables
- Fix SEO helper, cache issue in media.
- Add option to disable preview feature (Ex: `SlugHelper::disablePreview(Post::class)`)
- Refactor code.

Version 4.0 – 31-10-2019

- Upgraded to Laravel 6.0. Now this CMS requires PHP >=7.2 (

- Refactor database to improve query performance.
+ **slugs**: renamed column `reference` to `reference_type` and using model class instead of screen name. Ex: `reference_type` is `post` now changed to `BotbleBlogModelsPost`.
+ **language_meta**: renamed column `lang_meta_content_id` to `reference_id` and `lang_meta_reference` to `reference_type`. Using model class instead of screen name. Ex: `reference_type` is `post` now changed to `BotbleBlogModelsPost`.
+ **menu_nodes**: renamed column `related_id` to `reference_id` and `type` to `reference_type`.  Using model class instead of screen name. Ex: `reference_type` is `post` now changed to `BotbleBlogModelsPost`.
+ **meta_boxes**: renamed column `content_id` to `reference_id` and `reference` to `reference`. Using model class instead of screen name. Ex: `reference_type` is `post` now changed to `BotbleBlogModelsPost`.

- Update meta boxes helpers: Remove screen name in function. (`get_meta_data()`, `get_meta()`, `save_meta_data()`, `delete_meta_data()`)
- Fix bug delete widget.
- Fix bug search users.
- Refactor code.
- Improve performance.

Version 3.6 – 20-07-2019

- Fix bug repeater field with image, file in custom fields plugin.
- Move plugin management into /packages. Now it's a optional feature, you can remove `botble/plugin-management` and run composer update to remove plugin feature.
- Update `composer.json`. Add package `wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin`.
- Add command to regenerate image sizes: `php artisan cms:media:thumnail:generate`.
- Add default theme options: site title, SEO meta tags.
- Add search box on tables.
- Update translations.
- Optimize performance & refactor code.

Version 3.5 – 30-05-2019

- Restructure asset files.
- Fix security issue in upload user's avatar.
- Change default value for `status` column to `published` instead of `publish`.
- Create `dev-tool` package.
- Change binding type for repositories from `singleton` to `bind`.
- Remove `@author` in comment docs.
- Fix language issue.
- Fix dashboard widgets.
- Allow to create user without role.
- Refactor, clean migrations.

Version 3.4 – 15-03-2019

- Upgraded to the latest Laravel version 5.8
- Change folder structure: core, plugins and public/themes are now located in /platform folder.
- Contact plugin: Allow to reply directly from admin panel.
- Improve admin UI.
- Move some plugins to packages. Now we have a new folder is /platform/packages (it is the place for required plugins).
- Theme's directory is now located in /platform/themes/your-theme so it can't access directly anymore. After make change on theme's assets, you will need to run command `php artisan cms:theme:assets:publish your-theme` to copy assets to /public/themes/your-themes.

- Made some change on `assets` module.
    + Refactor some methods.
    + `addJavascript` => `addScripts`
    + `removeJavascript` => `removeScripts`
    + `getJavascript` => `getScripts`
    + `addStylesheets` => `addStyles`
    + `removeStylesheets` => `removeStyles`
    + `getStylesheets` => `getStyles`
    + `addStylesheetsDirectly` => `addStylesDirectly`
    + `addJavascriptDirectly` => `addScriptsDirectly`

    + Change some config keys:
        + `javascript` => `scripts`
        + `stylesheets` => `styles`

- Change folder to upload to `storage/uploads`, you need to run command `php artisan storage:link` to create symlink.
- Change event to listen when adding admin menu.

Version 3.3 – 30-09-2018

- See what's new here: 

Version 3.2 – 14-06-2018

- Fix bug UI & update admin UI
- Add Chinese language
- Refactor code & optimize queries
- Update vendor packages

Version 3.1 – 15-05-2018

- Support multi-language for theme options & widgets
- Fix bug add super users
- Upgrade table system & add filter tables
- Support change language on the login page
- Fix bug adding admin locale
- Fix bug create plugin by command
- Fix bug cropping image size.
- Fix preview image in media management
- Move API clients to settings.
- Update UI for member frontend.
- Update UI in admin panel.

Version 3.0 – 04-04-2018

- Upgrade to Laravel 5.6
- Add Passport support
- Refactor plugin system
- Refactor ACL system
- Fix bug member login and forgot password.
- Update UI
- Update some vendor packages

Version 2.0 – 21-02-2018

- Fix member reset password bug.
- Fix to change status after creating a new plugin.
- Auto register plugin menu to admin dashboard after creating new plugin.
- Update vendor packages.
- Fix coding standard.
- Change to use new facebook live chat.

Version 1.1 – 29-12-2017

- Update lara-mag theme:
+ Fix sidebar widgets style.
+ Fix bug cannot close mobile menu when admin bar activating.
- Update facebook plugin: update style, allow to add page without token.
- Refactor plugin language to make it easier.

Version 1.0 – 17-12-2017

- Initial release Version 1.0

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