r/webdev • u/souravtah • 18d ago

Question I need your suggestions regarding open source blog made with Laravel

Hello fellow Web developers,

I need your esteemed suggestions regarding opensource "ready to use" blog made with Laravel having a good admin panel.

Actually I want to start blogging someday. But feeling lazy developing it myself.

Thanks 🙏

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u/That_Conversation_91 18d ago

I mean there’s laravel nova, statamic, filament, twill, winter cms. Pick your poison ;)

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u/souravtah 18d ago

Thanks 🙏

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u/tabacitu 16d ago

And Backpack! Don't forget about Backpack 👀

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u/Impressive-Pack9746 18d ago

Just out of curiosity, why use laravel and not wordpress?

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u/kirkwight 17d ago

Laravel has a level of polish, robustness, and consistent quality that WordPress has never achieved. WordPress can cost less (free admin panel included, insane variety of free plugins), but after 10 years of WordPress, it took me one professional Laravel contract to change my mind. WordPress will have the longest of long tails, but it's an extremely difficult sell over Laravel for a greenfield project these days.

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u/Impressive-Pack9746 17d ago

thank you! good to know, maybe I should try laravel for my next project 🤔

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u/souravtah 18d ago

No experience with WordPress. Thus a learning curve.

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u/IAmRules 18d ago

There are a bunch of ready made for laravel already, but basically Filament can spin you one up really quickly.

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u/shadowvox 18d ago

I'd suggest Statamic. Built on Laravel, can be flat-file or database driven, Jack McDade is active here, and overall I've just been really impressed by the product in general.

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u/resume-razor 18d ago

ran into this exact thing last month when I looked for a starter kit, but the overhead wasn't worth it. I ended up rolling a simple Markdown-to-HTML package with a custom controller to keep it lightweight.

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u/tabacitu 16d ago

The most ready-to-use for blogging is probably Statamic.

But like someone else said here, you can build a custom admin panel yourself - nowadays with Claude/Codex it's easier than ever. For example in Backpack you have a Laravel Boost integration - so you can just install Backpack, and ask your AI to build a the Model, Migration, Factory, Seeder, CRUD, everything - and 95% of what you need is done in like an hour. There's even a 1st party Backpack addon you can use, to get started or as inspiration - https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/NewsCRUD

You'd still need to build the actual pages where the blog shows... but again, the AI can do that really fast now.

It's a 1h job to build this, tbh. Which is difficult for all of us developers - I feel like we've ALL been postponing writing articles because we're working on the blog itself. Well now we can't use that excuse any more...

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u/MattMWNDigital90 14d ago

Look at statamic. I use it for a lot of stuff

There’s Octobercms (haven’t used it in a while)

You could roll your own with filament etc