swiftmade / blogdown
Simple Laravel blog package using markdown
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Requires
- php: ^8.0
- graham-campbell/markdown: ^15.0
- laravel/framework: ^8.0|^9.0|^10.0|^11.0
Requires (Dev)
- friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer: ^3.13
- laravel/laravel: 8.*|9.*|10.*|11.*
- mockery/mockery: ^1.3
- phpunit/phpunit: ^9.0|^10.0
README
Add a simple, flat-file markdown blog to your existing Laravel application.
Install
You can install the package via composer:
# Require it as a dependency composer require swiftmade/blogdown # Publish the config file php artisan vendor:publish --provider "Swiftmade\Blogdown\BlogdownProvider"
Go to config/blogdown.php
to configure authors (example included in the file).
Post generator
Simply run this command to make a new article:
php artisan blog:new
Follow the instructions, and you'll have your first blog post ready in seconds.
Anatomy of a post
Each post consists of a meta section (mandatory) and the content. You can use Markdown to enrich your post's format.
To use markdown inside blade, simply invoke @markdown
/ @endmarkdown
. Or, you can also add .md
extension before .blade.php
and skip the markdown calls.
{{-- title: Hello World! tags: blog, first post date: 18.03.2020 --}} Use blade to compose post content. @markdown **Or even use markdown** if you want. ### Isn't that great? @endmarkdown
Draft vs Published
Let's say you're working on a long post and it's not production ready yet. Just do this:
{{-- ... other attributes draft: true --}} ... Your awesome content ...
Since you added the draft
meta attribute, this post will be hidden in production
environments.
Meta Attributes are Dynamic
You can declare as many meta attributes as you want.
{{-- random_attribute: 51231 --}}
You can access your post's meta attributes like so:
$post->random_attribute; // 51231
Force Clear Cache
php artisan blog:index
Customizing Blogdown
You can change most things about Blogdown. To get started, publish the config:
php artisan vendor:publish --provider "Swiftmade\Blogdown\BlogdownProvider"
Things you can customize
- Override views to change how your blog looks
- Add list of authors to quickly load author meta
- Format and content of post slugs
- Enable/disable default routes.
- Change date format.
- And probably more...
Format and content of post slugs
By default, this is how a post's slug is built:
public function slug() { return Str::slug($this->view_name); }
If needed, you can override the Post
model and build a better slug:
public function slug() { return Str::slug($this->date->format('Y-m-d') . ' ' . $this->title); }
Don't forget to register your custom Post
model in config/blogdown.php
!
Pull Requests Are Welcome
If you want to see more features or report bugs feel free to open issues and send pull requests.
Contributors: