Stories – Laravel Creative Multilingual Blog

Latest Version 1.37.2. Released Nov 17, 2025 Click HERE to view the Changelog

• Focus on performance improvements, this version loads faster than previous
• Add visual builder to pages for easier UI management. Demo: https://cms.botble.com/admin/pages/1/visual-builder
• Add phone country code support for phone fields in contact forms, user profiles, etc.
• Add missing translations for Arabic, French, and Vietnamese
• Fix watermark issue when using Cloudflare R2 storage
• Fix minor issues on Windows hosting
• Make the script fully compatible with UUID
• Improve admin panel UI/UX, add helper texts for settings and other forms
• Update all libraries to their latest versions

Check the upgrade guide HERE.

Stories – Laravel Creative Multilingual Blog

Stories is a clean and minimal Laravel blog script perfect for writers who need to create a personal blog site with simple creative features and effects to make readers feel the pleasure of reading blog posts and articles.

Packed with a fine assortment of adventure and travel blog templates, tons of exciting pre-designed layouts for all types of blogs.

Stories is a personal blog template mixes between modern, classic, and minimal styles and will help you create a simple and clean blog, if you are a blogger, then it’s a perfect choice.

We have a dedicated support center for all of your support needs. It includes our Documentation and Ticket system for any questions you have. We usually get back to you within 12-24 hours.

Note: We just provide free installation service for hosting using cPanel or Direct Admin. If you’re using VPS, you need to install
cPanel or Direct Admin. We don’t provide installation service on localhost.

If you need free installation service, please create a ticket on our support center https://botble.ticksy.com and give us access to your hosting
(hosting URL, username and password), our dev team will install it for you.

Demo

• Homepage: https://stories.botble.com
• Admin Area: https://stories.botble.com/admin
• Admin account: admin – 12345678 (username & password are autofilled)

Note: default username & password are autofilled.

Key Features

• Buy One Time & Get Free Updates Forever
• Free Theme Installation – If you will face any problem during installation – we will help you and It’s FREE
• Page, blog, menu, contact… modules are provided with the use of components to avoid boilerplate code.
• RSS feeds for posts https://stories.botble.com/feed/posts
• Multi language support. Unlimited number of languages.
• SEO & sitemap support: access sitemap.xml to see more.
• Powerful media system, also support Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces
• Google Analytics: display analytics data in admin panel.
• Translation tool: easy to translate front theme and admin panel to your language.
• Creative blog theme is ready to use.
• Powerful Permission System: Manage user, team, role by permissions. Easy to manage user by permissions.
• Admin template comes with color schemes to match your taste.
• Fully Responsive: Compatible with all screen resolutions
• Coding Standard: All code follow coding standards PSR-2 and best practices

Many free plugins by our community authors

There are many free plugins available on our Marketplace: https://marketplace.botble.com/products

Just install it in Admin → Plugins → Add new to use it.

Notes:

• CONSIDERING PURCHASING OUR ITEM? Please view our support section for important notes and questions.
• Images used in the demo are not included in the download package. They are used for demo purposes only.

Free plugins

There are some free plugins available on our Marketplace: https://marketplace.botble.com/products

Those plugins are working fine for products based on Botble CMS.

We won’t support free plugins and free plugins may not compatible with the current version. If you need support for free plugins, please create an issue on GitHub, the plugin’s author will support you.

Don’t forget to give us a star on GitHub repository if you use our free plugins.

Requirements

• Apache, nginx, or another compatible web server.
• PHP >= 8.2 >> Higher
• MySQL Database server
• PDO PHP Extension
• OpenSSL PHP Extension
• Mbstring PHP Extension
• Exif PHP Extension
• Fileinfo Extension
• XML PHP Extension
• Ctype PHP Extension
• JSON PHP Extension
• Tokenizer PHP Extension
• Module Re_write server
• PHP_CURL Module Enable

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Changelog

Version 1.37.2 – Nov 17, 2025

- Focus on performance improvements, this version loads faster than previous
- Add visual builder to pages for easier UI management. Demo: https://cms.botble.com/admin/pages/1/visual-builder
- Add phone country code support for phone fields in contact forms, user profiles, etc.
- Add missing translations for Arabic, French, and Vietnamese
- Fix watermark issue when using Cloudflare R2 storage
- Fix minor issues on Windows hosting
- Make the script fully compatible with UUID
- Improve admin panel UI/UX, add helper texts for settings and other forms
- Update all libraries to their latest versions

Version 1.37.0 – Oct 13, 2025

- Fully translated to 40+ languages: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese and more
- Fix dark mode UI issues in the admin panel
- Fix icon components on Windows hosting
- Fix small bugs reported by customers
- Improve hreflang SEO for multilingual sites
- Improve UI
- Focus on performance improvements, make site load faster
- Update libraries to the latest versions

Version 1.36.9 – Sep 02, 2025

- Added security page to admin dashboard, check Admin -> Platform Administration -> Security Settings
- Added option to make email optional in comment form
- Improved UI for Appearance -> Widgets page
- Improved website tracking settings form, allow to enter custom tracking code
- Improved performance, make some database queries more efficient

Version 1.36.8 – Jul 28, 2025

- Added phone number field to user profiles
- Added option to disable lazy loading for shortcodes
- Improved email preview templates and translations
- Improved media management: folders now stay on top of file lists
- Improved media navigation with single-click folder traversal
- Fixed mime type detection
- Fixed media upload in subfolders
- Updated all third-party libraries to latest versions

Version 1.36.7 – Jun 26, 2025

- Add IndexNow support for sitemap
- Add option to cache or ignore cache for specific widget/shortcode
- Add email template for admin contact reply email
- Add push notifications for API and secure API by API key
- Improve performance
- Update third-party libraries to the latest version

Version 1.36.6 – Jun 10, 2025

- Add cache for UI blocks & widgets to make site loads faster
- Add option to import blog post translations from CSV/Excel file
- Improve UI for cookie consent
- Improve performance
- Optimize source code
- Make it compatible with PHP 8.4
- Update third-party libraries to the latest version

Version 1.36.5 – Apr 29, 2025

- Fix error when updating cache settings
- Add Bootstrap Grid Columns button to editor https://prnt.sc/kZwPbJqp3Qpj
- Update jquery validation to the latest version to prevent security issues
- Improve UI cookie consent
- Improve cache for better performance
- Optimize source code
- Update third-party libraries to the latest version

Version 1.36.4 – Apr 17, 2025

- Add option to disable term & condition checkbox in contact form
- Added option to disable sitemap
- Improve cookie consent UI, make it GDPR compliant
- Improve theme loading speed & UI blocks
- Improve cache for better performance
- Optimize source code
- Update third-party libraries to the latest version

Version 1.36.3 – Mar 25, 2025

- Upgrade to Laravel framework version 12.x
- Improve front theme UI & UI blocks
- Improve sitemap, split sitemap into multiple files if it has more than 1k items
- Improve Backblaze storage integration
- Improve cache for better performance
- Optimize source code
- Update third-party libraries to the latest version

Version 1.36.2 – Feb 25, 2025

- Fix deprecation warning logs in PHP 8.3
- Fix warning when importing blog posts
- Copy menu structure to the new language when adding language
- Improve sitemap: add Google news and xml mobile. Check this: https://cms.botble.com/sitemap.google-news and https://cms.botble.com/sitemap.xml-mobile
- Improve email template, support RTL in email
- Improve newsletter: make it loads faster when loading the homepage
- Improve social sharing buttons
- Improve UI front theme and admin panel
- Improve cache for better performance
- Optimize source code
- Update third-party libraries to the latest version

Version 1.36.0 – Jan 17, 2025

- Fix blog categories sorting issue
- Fix import translations, it was having issue when locale name has a dash
- Fix some RTL issues
- Upgrade to Laravel 11.0, support PHP 8.3
- Update CKEditor, Google Fonts and Tabler icons
- Add an option to permanently delete media files, bypassing the trash.
- Add support some new HTML tags
- Improve backup: add option to backup database only
- Improve UI front theme and admin panel
- Improve cache for better performance
- Optimize source code
- Update third-party libraries to the latest version

Version 1.35.7 – Dec 09, 2024

- Add the missing permission for managing contact custom fields.
- Remove unnecessary files post-installation.
- Add more Google Fonts & Tabler icons
- Improve TinyMCE editor: add RTL mode
- Improve cache for better performance
- Optimize source code
- Update third-party libraries to the latest version

Version 1.35.6 – Nov 21, 2024

- Fix menu cache issue: Reduce excessive cache file generation for better performance.
- Fix BunnyCDN media settings: Correct configuration keys for proper integration.
- Add search feature for categories: Enable search in the blog post category list.
- Add UUID file name option: Allow automatic renaming of files to UUIDs.
- Add more Google Fonts: Expand font options for better typography.
- Change minimum PHP version: Require PHP 8.2.0 or higher.
- Optimize source code: Improve performance and maintainability.
- Update libraries: Upgrade dependencies to the latest versions.

Version 1.35.5 – Nov 01, 2024

- Fix RTL issue in contact form
- Add option to change upload folder in Settings -> Media
- Improve cache for better performance
- Optimize source code
- Update third-party libraries to the latest version

Version 1.35.4 – Oct 14, 2024

- Fix RTL issue in contact form
- Fix categories tree in post form
- Improve sitemap cache, fix cache is not refreshed when changing language
- Improve cache for better performance
- Optimize source code
- Update third-party libraries to the latest version

Version 1.35.3 – Sep 30, 2024

- Expanded icon set with Tabler Icons (https://tabler.io/icons)
- Included missing Google Fonts in the available list
- Added support for .avif image format
- Enhanced UI block 'Custom HTML' with code formatting
- Introduced option to limit image upload dimensions (width & height)
- Optimized database queries for improved multi-language support
- Enhanced caching mechanism for better performance
- Refined and optimized source code for efficiency
- Updated third-party libraries to their latest versions

Version 1.35.2 – Sep 17, 2024

- Fix missing translations in email templates
- Add option to convert image to WebP when uploading to Admin -> Media
- Add setting to change logo height in email template
- Add option to set admin logo max height
- Allow raw HTML code in static block
- Improve cache for better performance
- Optimize source code
- Update third-party libraries to the latest version

Version 1.35.1 – Aug 27, 2024

- Fix download language files from GitHub, it was missing translations for theme
- Add missing translation texts
- Add option to disable cache options
- Add jfif file support
- Add term & privacy URL to theme options
- Improve media settings, prevent errors when enter wrong settings
- Improve admin panel UI, fix RTL issues
- Improve cache for better performance
- Optimize source code
- Update third-party libraries to the latest version

Version 1.35.0 – Aug 06, 2024

- Add Backblaze cloud storage support
- Add option to disable thumbnails generation when uploading images
- Improve cache for better performance
- Optimize source code
- Update third-party libraries to the latest version

Version 1.34.8 – Jul 25, 2024

- Fix missing custom fields in contact email
- Add option to chang thumbnail crop position
- Add option to hide media files for other users
- Improve image field, add option to use external image URL instead of downloading to local storage
- Improve core

Version 1.34.7 – Jul 11, 2024

- Add option to keep original file size and quality when uploading to server
- Add audio shortcode
- Increase max length in custom JS
- Split theme option to multiple pages
- Update third-party packages to the latest version
- Improve UI contact form
- Improve cache system for better performance

Version 1.34.6 – Jun 20, 2024

- Fix date format in blog post schema snippet.
- Fix watermark size, image was be scaled.
- Fix table sort icon: wrong direction.
- Improve table quick search input: add clear button.
- Add cache for menu items to make it loads faster.
- Add more setting for media: Add option to enable `Use path style endpoint?` for S3, Digital Ocean Spaces.

Version 1.34.0 – Apr 25, 2024

- Improve performance & front theme UI
- Fix memory limit warning
- Fix duplicate language when installing using UI
- Fix duplicate editor field when using show/hide editor button
- Add search box for UI blocks
- Add Open Graph Image into SEO box
- Add option to upload/modify robots.txt file
- Add some new Google fonts to the list of fonts for theme
- Improve captcha: add option to enable captcha for admin login page
- Improve table: fix responsive table buttons
- Improve theme translations: add button to import missing theme translation texts
- Improve social login: add Facebook Data deletion request callback & improve default style

Version 1.33.0 – Feb 23, 2024

- Fix email rules when PHP extension intl is not enabled
- Add custom CSS/JS for admin panel
- Add webm into media allowed extensions
- Improve media system, compress images when uploading
- Improve admin panel UI
- Improve performance

Version 1.32.0 – Jan 03, 2024

- Fix plugin Analytics when extension bcmath not enabled
- Fix media double click
- Fix responsive issue on the admin panel
- Add option to select language when installing script with installer
- Add option to stop converting media file URL to friendly URL
- Add user preference to select default language, dark/light mode...
- Add option to set color for media folder
- Add option to stop indexing a page
- Improve Admin theme UI
- Improve translations from the admin panel, make it easier to use.
- Improve System updater, fix permission issues on some servers
- Improve email notification settings

Version 1.31.0 – Nov 28, 2023

- Revamp admin theme, make it super beautiful. Check this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRxGSHL8bI0
- Upgrade to Laravel 10
- Improve core code and performance
- Make it easier to customize

Version 1.30.0 – Oct 20, 2023

- Improve performance & theme UI
- Add slugs translation
- Improve multi-language
- Fix text direction button in CKEditor
- Fix issues when using PostgreSQL
- Improve core & performance
- Improve locale/translation download
- Improve Analytics widgets

Version 1.28.0 – Jul 20, 2023

- Integrate Cloudflare R2
- Improve system updater
- Upgrade Vue.js to version 3
- Improve UI for admin dashboard
- Improve sitemap, split blog posts sitemap to multiple files
- Improve email template
- Prevent error "Unable to create or change a table without a primary key" on Digital Ocean VPS
- Improve core & performance

Version 1.27.0 – Jun 07, 2023

- Bootstrap 5.3.0 compatible
- Add cronjob setting instruction
- Improve theme translations
- Improve core & performance
- Improve Analytics plugin, switch to use GA4, no more UA.
- Improve plugin management.
- Fix issue when switching default language
- Improve admin notification: only keep notifications in 30 days
- Improve setting pages
- Improve captcha plugin, fix issue when using multiple captcha
- Improve admin bar
- Improve system updater & performance
- Improve UI for installer
- Improve core source code & performance
- Add multi-language for email templates

Version 1.26.0 – May 03, 2023

- Fix issue when switching default language
- Improve admin notification: only keep notifications in 30 days
- Improve setting pages
- Improve captcha plugin, fix issue when using multiple captcha
- Improve admin bar
- Improve system updater & performance
- Improve UI for installer
- Improve core source code & performance
- Add multi-language for email templates

Version 1.25.0 – Apr 07, 2023

- Add multi-language for email templates
- Add theme guidelines https://prnt.sc/TSDJWM4bnLjX
- Improve performance
- Improve UI for installer
- Fix issue when switching default language
- Fix watermark issues: missing watermark for images in sub-folder
- Improve sitemap (add sitemap indexes)
- Fallback option for Google Fonts cache
- Disable scroll effect in the admin panel
- Fix og:site_name
- Fix bug download images in Admin -> Media
- Fix preview PDF file & bulk changes in table
- Fix sitemap issue when enable pagespeed optimizer
- Improve Google Analytics settings
- Improve admin notifications, hide notification if current logged user don't have permission to see it
- Publish translation files when activate plugin / upgrade to the new version
- Add language switcher on mobile screen
- Update breadcrumb schema
- Make editor translatable, display based on admin language
- Improve loading performance

Version 1.23 – Feb 20, 2023

- Improve UI
- Fix preview PDF file in admin panel
- Fix UI for installer
- Allow tag in editor
- Fix issues when importing locations
- Add Google Analytics 4 support
- Fix issue when activate plugin Language from Admin panel
- Update maintenance mode view
- Add alt for image in Media
- Add option to disable installer
- Fix get file size issue with Digital Ocean Spaces
- Clear Google Fonts cache and validate font URL

Version 1.22 – Jan 21, 2023

- Add admin notifications.
- Add Google Fonts cache on local disk.
- Improve multi-language.
- Improve core & performance.
- Improve shortcode admin config.

Version 1.21 – Jan 02, 2023

- Improve multi-language.
- Improve form builder.
- Improve date picker, switch to use https://flatpickr.js.org for better UI.
- Improve media system: add crop image feature and improve download feature.
- Add backup clean command.
- Make editor extendable.
- Make CKEditor support RTL.
- Fix SEO title (issue with & character).

Version 1.20 – Dec 21, 2022

- Improve email template. Add Twig function.
- Improve multi-language.
- Add canonical tag for page, post, category, tag & gallery.
- Able to update free plugins directly in Admin -> Plugins.
- Fix Wasabi & BunnyCDN media driver.
- Fix issue when enable page speed options in settings.
- Fix sitemap JS libraries.

Version 1.19 – Dec 08, 2022

- Upgrade to Laravel framework 9.x
- Drop PHP 7.x support.
- Add option to install plugins from marketplace.botble.com in Admin -> Plugins.
- Add option to clean up site data.
- Change default Google Fonts CDN URL to fonts.bunny.net.
- Improve performance.
- Improve sitemap queries.
- Improve core & UI.

Version 1.18 – Nov 07, 2022

- Add installer package.
- Add get started package, show on the first installation.
- Add an option to allow limit max upload filesize.
- Add option to disable cache in the admin panel.
- Fix cache errors when upgrading to a new version.
- Remove duplicate meta viewport.
- Improve email template.
- Improve multi-language.
- Improve shortcode & SEO helper.
- Refactor code & improve performance.

Version 1.17 – Sep 28, 2022

- Add blog schema settings.
- Fix pagespeed optimization and language route prefix.
- Fix file upload visibility.
- Fix bug contact form when activating page speed optimization.
- Improve shortcode.
- Improve queries performance.
- Refactor code
- Improve UI.

Version 1.16 – Jul 13, 2022

- Add option to download available translation files from GitHub.
- Prevent issue when deactivating plugin Language.
- Move folder /resources/lang to /lang.
- Fix media URL.
- Add permission to manage license.
- Improve menu.
- Improve cache system (fix cache won't be cleared after translating data).
- Improve performance.
- Improve menu.
- Improve UI.
- Improve license activation.
- Fix theme translations.
- Improve plugin Backup.
- Update libraries / third-party package to the latest version.

Version 1.15 – May 23, 2022

- Add custom HTML shortcode.
- Add text direction toolbar to editor.
- Add option to add custom HTML to header, body or footer of page.
- Add option to regenerate media thumbnails from admin panel.
- Add memory limit & max execution time info to system information page.
- Add option to add watermark for images in specific folders.
- Allow to redirect all 404 requests to homepage.
- Add DB index to some tables.
- Handle error when activating license.
- Fix multi-language for plugin Gallery.
- Fix image rotate issue when cropping thumbnails.
- Fix media download on PHP 8.
- Fix Admin RTL mode.
- Improve contact form: add math captcha, blacklist words & domains to prevent spam mails.
- Improve multi-language.
- Improve dashboard widgets style & pagination.
- Improve license system.
- Improve admin bar.
- Refactor code.
- Update libraries.
- Optimize queries.

Version 1.14 – Mar 22, 2022

- Fix language advanced plugin.
- Fix plugin activation.
- Fix menu contains &
- Improve editor.
- Refactor code & improve queries.
- Update Laravel framework to 8.83.5.

Version 1.13 – Feb 19, 2022

- Fix issue with Cloudflare SSL.
- Fix tree category & social links.
- Fix duplicate shortcode in CKEditor.
- Fix saving SEO meta tags.
- Improve license.
- Improve permalink.
- Improve dashboard widgets.
- Improve core.
- Prevent Method Not Allowed error when use ajax DELETE/PUT.
- Add schema for post & page.
- Update AWS S3 settings.

Version 1.12 – Dec 22, 2021

- Fix saving meta box data.
- Improve editor & media.
- Improve multi-language.
- Improve theme translations.
- Improve RTL style.
- Update AWS S3 settings: add AWS Endpoint.
- Refactor code.

Version 1.11 – Nov 18, 2021

- Fix UI issue with select2 fields.
- Fix Admin Bar settings.
- Fix some small issues when upgrading to Bootstrap 5.
- Improve multi-language.
- Improve updater, using PclZip if Zip module is not enabled.
- Improve UI.
- Improve slug package.
- Improve shortcode.
- Improve plugin Analytics, view analytics data by date range.
- Improve core & UI.
- Improve RTL mode.
- Update to the latest Laravel version 8.72.0.
- Optimize queries performance.

Version 1.10 – Oct 14, 2021

- Upgrade admin theme to Bootstrap 5.
- Add system updater. 1-click update to the latest version.
- Add BunnyCDN cloud storage.
- Fix bug admin email, login backgrounds.
- Update to the latest Laravel version 8.64.0
- Improve RTL mode.
- Improve UI & Editors.
- Improve cookie consent (Added minimal style).
- Improve core.
- Optimize queries performance.

Version 1.9 – Sep 14, 2021

- Fix theme migration & issue when activating plugin Language.
- Fix admin email.
- Fix cache issue in media.
- Add option to hide newsletter in the header section.
- Improve theme custom CSS/JS.
- Improve plugin Blog & Newsletter.
- Improve allowed iframe types.
- Handle TokenMismatchException.
- Prevent error when missing watermark image.
- Update to the latest Laravel version 8.60.0
- Improve core.
- Optimize queries performance.

Version 1.8 – Aug 23, 2021

- Fix Contact plugin with the new editor.
- Improve shortcode. Make it easier to modify added shortcodes.
- Improve editor & clean XSS.
- Update theme UI.
- Update to the latest Laravel version 8.55.0
- Improve core.
- Optimize queries performance.

Version 1.7 – Jul 27, 2021

- Update CKEditor and TinyMCE to the latest version (version 5).
- Update media: Add a button to download media files from URL.
- Able to add multiple admin emails in Admin -> Settings -> General.
- Big change on blog categories. Hierarchical tree structured category https://prnt.sc/1g4dr0n.

Version 1.6 – Jul 14, 2021

- Add Wasabi cloud storage support.
- Allow to config the default placeholder image.
- Improve media, translations & backup.
- Improve UI.
- Optimize queries.
- Refactor code & improve performance.
- Fix some bugs on PHP 8.

Version 1.5 – Jun 13, 2021

- Added RTL support for the admin panel.
- Fix some errors on PHP 8.
- Fix blog API.
- Improve media, fix some errors with SVG.
- Improve UI.
- Optimize queries.
- Refactor code & improve performance.

Version 1.4 – May 10, 2021

- Improve theme UI.
- Fix change user's password.
- Remove unused services in Google Client API services to reduce app size.
- Fix color field.
- Update theme options & handle errors when saving custom CSS.
- Optimize queries.
- Refactor code & improve performance.

Version 1.3 – Apr 14, 2021

- Improve UI & RTL style.
- Add option to turn off automatic URL translation into Latin.
- Add option to force URL & schema.
- Improve email templates.
- Fix bug Serialization of 'GdImage' is not allowed on PHP 8.
- Refactor code & optimize performance.

Version 1.2 – Mar 15, 2021

- Added RTL support.
- Update email templates.
- Update theme.
- Fix missing theme options.
- Fix bug Serialization of 'GdImage' is not allowed.

Version 1.1 – Mar 04, 2021

- Add missing Language switcher and search box on mobile.
- New option to add custom JS in Admin -> Appearance -> Custom JS.
- Added setting in Admin -> Settings -> General to change login screen backgrounds.
- Improve dashboard widgets.
- Improve page SEO meta.
- Improve breadcrumbs.
- Fix permission issue on Contact plugin.
- Fix some bugs on PHP 8.

Version 1.0 – Feb 23, 2021

- Initial release Version 1.0

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