Athena – Laravel Creative Multilingual Blog

Latest Version 1.2.9. Released Sep 02, 2025 Click HERE to view the Changelog

• 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

Check the upgrade guide HERE.

Athena & 8211; Laravel Creative Multilingual Blog

Athena is a modern Blog/Magazine focused on high speed and oriented to a very minimal style, the theme fits perfectly any kind of blog specially lifestyle, photography, personal, or coding blogs thanks to the vivid colors and clean design.

Athena 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.

Athena 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& 8217;s a perfect choice.

Purpose built to look great across all platforms and screen sizes. Athena has multiple home page layouts and post/page types along with other utility pages like Category, Author and Contact to ensure your website is fully featured.

The theme comes with 3 pre-built homepages and built on top of our Botble CMS core. It is also easy to use and convenient to modify when needed.

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& 8211;24 hours.

Note: Price will be increased after 100 sales (28 more sales left), hurry up!!!

Highlighted Features (Last Updated: 13 May 2024):

• Buy One Time & 038; Get Free Updates Forever
• Free Theme Installation & 8211; If you will face any problem during installation & 8211; we will help
  you and It& 8217;s FREE
• Bootstrap 5.x Framework: Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile-first projects on the web.
• Based on our Botble CMS (using modern Laravel framework) which using by thousand customers.
• 3 different homepages to give you the best selections in customization.
• Touch Friendly: Easy browsing on touch devices.
• 100% Fully Responsive: Whatever you are using the device, your site will run as it should be.
• Powerful admin panel, all things can be changed from the admin panel, no hard-code.
• Nice and clean design from our designer expert.
• Easy to install with UI & 8211; Video tutorial.
• Multi-language: unlimited languages support.
• Google Adsense integrated: allow manually placements ad slot from the admin panel.
• Google Analytics: display analytics data in admin panel.
• Newsletter popup: easy to collect visitor emails for marketing purposes.
• Translation tool: easy to translate front theme and admin panel to your language.
• Child theme support: easy to customize our theme by adding a child theme and override it.
• Right To Left (RTL) language support.
• Typography Settings
• Dynamic Color Compatible
• Fast support: we always reply your ticket within 1 business day.

Note: We just provide free installation service for hosting using cPanel or Direct Admin. If you& 8217;re using VPS, you need to install
cPanel or Direct Admin. We don& 8217;t provide installation service on localhost.

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

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.

Demo

• Homepage: https://athena.botble.com
• Admin panel: https://athena.botble.com/admin
• Admin account: admin & 8211; 12345678 (username & 038; password are autofilled)
• Member login URL: https://athena.botble.com/login
• Member account: [email protected] & 8211; 12345678

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& 8217;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& 8217;s author will support you.

Don& 8217;t forget to give us a star on GitHub repository and Marketplace product page 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

Changelog

Version 1.2.9 & 8211; 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 1.2.8 & 8211; 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 1.2.7 & 8211; Jun 26, 2025

- Add IndexNow support for sitemap
- Add option to cache or ignore cache for specific widget/shortcode
- Add X (Twitter) social login
- 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 1.2.6 & 8211; Jun 10, 2025

- Add cache for UI blocks & 038; widgets to make site loads faster
- Add option to import blog post translations from CSV/Excel file
- Improve UI for cookie consent
- Improve performance
- Make it compatible with PHP 8.4
- Optimize source code
- Update third-party libraries to the latest version

Version 1.2.5 & 8211; 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 1.2.3 & 8211; Mar 25, 2025

- Upgrade to Laravel framework version 12.x
- 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 1.2.2 & 8211; 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 1.2.0 & 8211; 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 1.1.7 & 8211; Dec 09, 2024

- Add a setting to enable or disable visitor registration.
- Add the missing permission for managing contact custom fields.
- Remove unnecessary files post-installation.
- Add more Google Fonts & 038; 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 1.1.6 & 8211; 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 1.1.5 & 8211; 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 1.1.4 & 8211; 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 1.1.3 & 8211; 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 & 038; 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 1.1.2 & 8211; 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
- Improve cache for better performance
- Optimize source code
- Update third-party libraries to the latest version

Version 1.1.1 & 8211; Aug 27, 2024

- Improve cache for better performance
- Optimize source code
- Update third-party libraries to the latest version

Version 1.1.0 & 8211; Aug 06, 2024

- Add Backblaze cloud storage support
- Add more social login button styles
- 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 1.0.6 & 8211; 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 social login UI
- Improve core

Version 1.0.5 & 8211; Jul 19, 2024

- Fix issues when disabling plugin Member
- Add option to hide media files for other users
- Improve cache system for better performance

Version 1.0.4 & 8211; 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 1.0.3 & 8211; Jun 20, 2024

- Fix date format in blog post schema snippet.
- Fix watermark size, image was being scaled.
- Fix table sort icon: wrong direction.
- Fix missing copyright in theme options
- 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 1.0.0 & 8211; May & 8211; 2024

 - First release.

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