Notes on ManukMinasyan-filament-blog⌗

Headless blog package for Filament with SEO, MCP tools, and publishable components

Overview⌗

I found this today when considering writing a laravel package to run a blog. I was going to use Filament for the back end and I had a look around and I found Firefly Filament Blog and thought that looked better.

But then I noticed it supported Laravel 11 and Filament 3.x . Which means it’s old.

I search github by “most recently updated” and found this one.

What it does⌗

It uses the Ralph J Smit Laravel Filemant SEO Package and Filament PHP to provide a backend to a blog with Markdown editor.

Installation⌗

Installation was a little convoluted.

It’s not on packagist so I did a clone and added that repo to my composer.json repositories.

There was an option to use the automatic routes, but that didn’t quite work as it wasn’t using layouts the way my application was using layouts, and so I had to publish the vendor views. Which didn’t work.

I had to also follow the install instructions for this package, which I had to understand myself. Ralph J Smit Laravel SEO Package

First impressions⌗

Almost perfect for what I need. Easy to fix what isn’t right.

Pros⌗

• It supports the latest Filament.
• The Seo support works well.
• It has categories and tags.
• It has an RSS feed.
• It looks easy to work on.

Cons⌗

It’s clearly the work of just one guy at the moment:

But it is under active development and it does support the latest Filament. And the first commit was on a special day for me, so maybe that’s a sign.

• I’ve found a couple of bugs.

Notes⌗

There were example views in the docs different to the views that would be used by default. Which is confusing. But I think things are likely to change quickly.

Worth following