Plain Dev Blog

A clean, SEO-friendly developer blog built with Laravel 13. Content is managed through a Filament v5 admin panel and rendered as a fast, minimal public site with Blade and Tailwind CSS.

Features

• Blog posts with slugs, excerpts, cover images, and publish scheduling
• Authors with bios, avatars, and social media links
• Tags with post filtering (?tag=...)
• Filament v5 admin panel for managing posts, authors, and tags
• SEO built in — meta tags, Open Graph and Twitter cards via laravel/head, plus dynamic sitemap.xml and robots.txt
• Social share buttons via kudashevs/laravel-share-buttons
• S3-compatible image storage for post and author images
• Pagination, Blade layouts, and Tailwind CSS v4 styling

Tech Stack

• PHP 8.3+ / Laravel 13
• Filament 5 (admin panel)
• Tailwind CSS 4 + Vite
• MySQL (SQLite also supported)
• Pest 4 (testing)

Getting Started

# Install dependencies, generate app key, run migrations, and build assets
composer setup

# Create an admin user for the Filament panel
php artisan make:filament-user

# Start the dev environment (server, queue, logs, and Vite)
composer run dev

The public site is served at / and the admin panel at /admin.

Configuration

Key environment variables beyond the Laravel defaults:

Variable	Purpose
DB_*	Database connection (MySQL by default)
AWS_*	S3 credentials used for post/author image storage

Testing

php artisan test --compact

Code Quality

# Format PHP with Laravel Pint
vendor/bin/pint

License

Open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.