📝 Blog Platform

A modern full-stack blogging platform built using Flask and MongoDB where users can register, publish blogs, upload images, like posts, save blogs, and interact through comments.

🚀 Live Demo

Click here

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✨ Features

• User Registration & Login
• Secure Password Hashing (bcrypt)
• Create, Read, Edit & Delete Blogs
• Upload Images using Cloudinary
• Like / Unlike Blogs
• Save Blogs
• Comment Section
• Search Blogs
• User Profile
• Pagination
• Responsive Design
• MongoDB Atlas Database
• Deployed on Render

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Frontend

• HTML5
• CSS3
• Bootstrap 5
• Jinja2

Backend

• Python
• Flask

Database

• MongoDB Atlas

Cloud Storage

• Cloudinary

Deployment

• Render

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📁 Project Structure

Blog-Platform/

│

├── database/

│   └── db.py

│

├── static/

│   ├── css/

│   │   └── style.css

│   └── js/

│       └── script.js

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├── templates/

│   ├── index.html

│   ├── login.html

│   ├── register.html

│   ├── dashboard.html

│   ├── create_post.html

│   ├── edit_post.html

│   ├── post.html

│   ├── profile.html

│   └── saved.html

│

├── app.py

├── wsgi.py

├── requirements.txt

├── README.md

├── .gitignore

└── .env (not included in GitHub)

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⚙️ Installation

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/gayatri162/Blog-Platform.git

Move into project folder

cd Blog-Platform

Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Create a .env file

MONGO_URI=your_mongodb_uri

SECRET_KEY=your_secret_key

CLOUD_NAME=your_cloud_name

API_KEY=your_api_key

API_SECRET=your_api_secret

Run the project

python3 app.py

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📷 Screenshots

🏠 Home Page

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🔐 Login Page

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📖 Dashboard

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✍️ Create Blog

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👩‍💻 Author

Gayatri

Engineering Student

🐙GitHub: https://github.com/gayatri162

📁Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayatri-singh/