MyBlog4u is a scalable, production-ready social networking platform comes with advanced features, ready for monetization, Custom Ad banners/Google AdSense, Web and Rss scraping (Setup Auto crawl settings), ultimate custom rate limiting, Full ACL, Dynamic Sitemap + RSS generation, Google Analytics GA4 Full widgets tracking sites, Custom pages creation, Image Optimization, Multi media drivers support (R2, DO spaces, S3, local ).
- Dynamic Slides: Homepage with dynamic slides geenrated.
- Infinite Scroll: Fast laod feed.
- Interactions: AJAX powered Likes, comments, follow, save that updates UI withoud reload page.
- Nested Comments and Mentions: Multi level comments, with @username mentions.
- Follow System: Insta style, follow creators, accept followers, requested followers.
- Profile Visiblity: Switch between public and private only creators with accepted follow can access posts.
- Activity Section: Track the creator history comments, replies, mentions, posted.
- Reports: Creators can report articles,comments,profiles based on selecting reasons or typing new reason.
- Creator Dashboard: Dasboard page with multiple stats and pages, pin unpin posts, profile views, custom social links.
- Rich Text Editor: Powered by TinyMCE,responsive and sticky toolbar.
- Media Integration: By TinyMCE creators can upload multiple images into arcticle editable and deletable with image zoom preview.
- Hashtags and Categories Creators can write new up to 4 hashtags on article or select most popular if exists, and choose one category.
- Articles Submission: Creators can create publish article to public, or save draft articles with private visibility. toggle visibility on comments thread.
- Scraping Sources: Add unlimited sources with data type web/rss switch, automatically detects article links, detect old articles to delete, automating logs scraping detection, and extracting OpenGraph data (Title, Image, description Category).
- Background Cron: Running Crawl in background with laravel queues with scraping frequency (15min, 2 hrs, 24 hrs ..etc ).
- News Feed: News Feed with cached data with redis and pagination ajax with multi sources filtering.
- Dashboard Pages: Realtime charts tracking new users, published posts, Google Analytics integration with fully responsive and AJAX based.
- Media Setting Easy setup custom media driver and switch between multiple media suppoted ( Local, Cloudflare R2, S3, DigitalOcean Spaces)
- Posts Moderation: Full Control on posts,and enforce post submissions by auto approve posts and allow user posts going published.
- User Management: Full control on users, with Full custom ACL manage custom rules, permissions , grant permissions to each rule , and grant user permissions.
- Notifications: Track Creators actions by receiving notification by type, notification setting manage by notification type to allow recieving or not.
- Custom Pages: Create Custom pages to global display footer ( about us, privacy ..etc).
- SMTP Settings: Customizable SMTP configuration and testing mode.
- Backups Generator Cronjbos for creating daily encrypting backups , and delete old backups, managable backups delete or download.
- Auth and Security: Enable user registration mode with allowed certian custom domains, and enable google recaptcha by editing site and secret keys.
- Slides Management: Customize Home feed by creating new slides.
- Monetization: Global Ad management by placing Google AdSense code or custom banner images across different postions customizable.
- Reports: Full Control Reports by type comments,posts,profiles.
- Hashtags and Categories: Manage hashatgs activating or disabling spam hastags, manage categories actions.
- Seo Tools: Customizable meta Seo with customizable header scripts and footer scripts.
- System Maintenance: Clear all Cache, or refresh compiled views,Clear config cache,Clear route cache,Clear log.
- Custom Two-Factor Authentication : enabling by scanning qrcode or type manually with confirmation code.
- Confirm Password Check: Laravel middleware for confirmimg passwords on certian actions.
- Identity Check: Creators by changing their passwords will redirect to identity check page with Otp verification.
- Email and In-app Notifications: Creators will recieve mutiple notifications type Views,Mentions,Posted,Following,Requested Following,Reports with real-time and by emails.
- Clean architecture using: Service Layer,Observers,Builders,Repositories and Decorators Caches, DTOs.
- Dynamic XML/RSS Sitemaps Generated
git clone https://github.com/ibrahimjml/MyBlog4u.git
cp .env.docker .env
docker compose up --build -d
- Requirements extensions:
- PHP 8.3
- Imagick
- intl
- tokenizer
- LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
- LoadModule proxy_http2_module modules/mod_proxy_http2.so
- LoadModule proxy_wstunnel_module modules/mod_proxy_wstunnel.so
- LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so
1.📦 Install dependencies
composer install
2.🛠️ Create a copy of the .env file
cp .env.example .env
3.🔑 Generate the application key
php artisan key:generate
4.📦 install node_modules
npm install
5.🚀 Compile assets with Tailwind CSS
npm run dev
6.🗄️ Set up the database
php artisan migrate
7.🔗 Create symbolic link for storage
rm public/storage
php artisan storage:link
8.🗄️ Seed Admin credantials with roles and permessions
php artisan db:seed --class=AdminSeeder
9.🗄️ Seed the SMTP configuration important
php artisan db:seed --SmtpSeeder
10.💻 Run the application
php artisan serve
11.Enable Reverb Broadcasting (optional)
BROADCAST_ENABLED=true
BROADCAST_DRIVER=reverb
REVERB_APP_ID=
REVERB_APP_KEY=
REVERB_APP_SECRET=
REVERB_HOST=127.0.0.1
REVERB_PORT=8080
REVERB_SCHEME=http
VITE_REVERB_ENABLED=true
VITE_REVERB_APP_KEY="${REVERB_APP_KEY}"
VITE_REVERB_HOST="blogpost.test"
VITE_REVERB_PORT=443
VITE_REVERB_SCHEME=https
then start reverb and queue
php artisan queue:work
php artisan reverb:start
12.🚀 For better performance configure Redis and enable Cache to true
CACHE_ENABLED=true
REDIS_CLIENT=predis
- TNTSearch Scout (optional)
SCOUT_DRIVER=tntsearch
SCOUT_QUEUE=true
SCOUT_QUEUE_CONNECTION=redis
SCOUT_QUEUE_NAME=scout
TNTSEARCH_FUZZINESS=true
TNTSEARCH_AS_YOU_TYPE=false
TNTSEARCH_BOOLEAN=false
TNTSEARCH_MAX_DOCS=500
Index your posts, tags, categories, user, news (optional) run the following command:
php artisan scout:import "App\Models\Post"
php artisan scout:import "App\Models\Scraping\ScrapedPost"
php artisan scout:import "App\Models\Category"
php artisan scout:import "App\Models\Hashtag"
php artisan scout:import "App\Models\User"
Then run queue for tntsearch:
php artisan queue:work --queue=scout
- N8N Whatsapp Notificcation (optional)
Myblog4u will notify admins of pending approval articles through Whatsapp. You'll need to set up a Whatsapp Business API. Then, configure N8N workflow to send new pending article messages.
download the laravel_to_whatsapp workflow click here to download
docker pull n8nio/n8n:latest
docker run -d \
--name n8n \
--restart unless-stopped \
-p 127.0.0.1:5678:5678 \
-e WEBHOOK_URL=https://yourdomain.com \
-e EXECUTIONS_DATA_PRUNE=true \
-e EXECUTIONS_DATA_MAX_AGE=72 \
-v n8n_data:/home/node/.n8n \
n8nio/n8n:latest
If using Nginx, or Apache try reverse proxy to access.
Setup n8n environment config
N8N_WEBHOOK_ENABLED=
N8N_WEBHOOK_URL=
N8N_WEBHOOK_PHONE=
- Configure new smtp in adminpanel->settings->smtp settings
- Test it by sending test mail
- Copy .env.testing.example to .env.testing
- Run the commands:
php artisan key:generate --env=testing
php artisan migrate --seed --env=testing
php artisan serve --env=testing
MyBlog4u runs on a production stack built for reliability and performance:
- ☁️ Hosting — DigitalOcean, served via Nginx
- 📦 Object storage — Cloudflare R2 for file uploads
- 🔔 Real-time notifications — Laravel Reverb
- ⚙️ Queue management — Supervisor for handling background jobs
- 📧 Email delivery — Brevo
- ⚡ Caching — Redis