Firefly Filament Blog Plugin: Seamless Your Blogging Journey

The Filament Blog Plugin is a feature-rich plugin designed to enhance your blogging experience on your website. It has various powerful features to help you manage and customize your blog posts effectively.

Features

Easy Installation: Simple installation process.
User-Friendly Interface: Intuitive and user-friendly interface for easy management of blog posts.
SEO Meta Extension: Enhance your blog’s search engine optimization with built-in meta tag customization.
Post Scheduled for Future: Schedule your blog posts to be published at a future date and time.
Social Media Share Feature: Allow users to share their blog posts on social media platforms easily.
Comment Feature: Enable comments on your blog posts to encourage engagement and discussion.
Newsletter Subscription: Integrate newsletter subscription forms to grow your email list.
New Post Published Notification: Notify subscribers when a new blog post is published.
Category Search: Categorize your blog posts for easy navigation and search.
Support: Laravel 11 and Filament 3.x.

Upgrade Note

Note: If you are upgrading from version 1.x to 2.x, please follow the following steps:

Backup your database before running the migration. This is done to play safely while upgrading any system.
Now you can add prefixes on blog tables from the config file.

'tables' => [
    'prefix' => 'fblog_', // prefix for all blog tables
    ],

After setting the prefix please run the migration by running the following command:

php artisan filament-blog:upgrade-tables

Installation

If your project is not already using Filament, you can install it by running the following commands:

composer require filament/filament:"^3.2" -W

php artisan filament:install --panels

Install the Filament Blog Plugin by running the following command:

composer require firefly/filament-blog

Usage

After the composer is required, you can start using the Filament Blog Plugin by running the following command:

php artisan filament-blog:install

This command will publish filamentblog.php config file and create_blog_tables.php migration file.

 [
        'prefix' => 'fblog_', // prefix for all blog tables
    ],
    'route' => [
        'prefix' => 'blogs',
        'middleware' => ['web'],
        //        'home' => [
        //            'name' => 'filamentblog.home',
        //            'url' => env('APP_URL'),
        //        ],
        'login' => [
            'name' => 'filamentblog.post.login',
        ],
    ],
    'user' => [
        'model' => User::class,
        'foreign_key' => 'user_id',
        'columns' => [
            'name' => 'name',
            'avatar' => 'profile_photo_path', // column name for avatar
        ],
    ],
    'seo' => [
        'meta' => [
            'title' => 'Filament Blog',
            'description' => 'This is filament blog seo meta description',
            'keywords' => [],
        ],
    ],

    'recaptcha' => [
        'enabled' => false, // true or false
        'site_key' => env('RECAPTCHA_SITE_KEY'),
        'secret_key' => env('RECAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY'),
    ],
];

If you have a different URL for the home page, you can set it in the home key in the route configuration. Before running the migration, you can modify the filamentblog.php config file to suit your needs.

If you want to publish config, views, components, and migrations individually you can run the following command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Firefly\FilamentBlog\FilamentBlogServiceProvider" --tag=filament-blog-views

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Firefly\FilamentBlog\FilamentBlogServiceProvider" --tag=filament-blog-views

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Firefly\FilamentBlog\FilamentBlogServiceProvider" --tag=filament-blog-components

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Firefly\FilamentBlog\FilamentBlogServiceProvider" --tag=filament-blog-migrations

What if You Already Have a User Model?

If you already have a User model, you can modify the filamentblog.php config file to use your User model.
Make sure the name column is the user’s name column.
If you have already avatar column in your User model, you can set it in the filamentblog.php config file in user.columns.avatar key.
If you want to change foreign_key column name, you can modify the filamentblog.php config file.

Migrate the Database

After modifying the filamentblog.php config file, you can run the migration by running the following command:

php artisan migrate

Storage Link

After running the migration, you can create a symbolic link to the storage directory by running the following command:

php artisan storage:link

Attach the Filament Blog Panel to the Dashboard

You can attach the Filament Blog panel to the dashboard by adding the following code to your panel provider: Add Blog::make() to your panel passing the class to your plugins() method.

use Firefly\FilamentBlog\Blog;

public function panel(Panel $panel): Panel
{
    return $panel
        ->plugins([
            Blog::make()
        ])
}

Manage User Relationship

If you want to manage the user relationship, you can modify the User model to have a relationship with the Post model.

<?php

namespace App\Models;

// use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail;
use Firefly\FilamentBlog\Traits\HasBlog;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use HasBlog;
}

Allow Users to Comment

If you want to allow users to comment on blog posts, you can modify the User model to add a method canComment().

<?php

namespace App\Models;

// use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail;
use Firefly\FilamentBlog\Traits\HasBlog;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
   public function canComment(): bool
    {
        // your conditional logic here
        return true;
    }
    
}

Now you can start using the Filament Blog Plugin to manage your blog posts effectively. yourdomain.com/blogs You can change the route prefix in the filamentblog.php config file.

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Recaptcha

To add the ReCaptcha to the blog comment form, you can add environment variables to your .env file. And make sure enabled is set to true in the filamentblog.php config file.

RECAPTCHA_SITE_KEY
RECAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY

Filament Blog Demo Video

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