#Table of contents

• Machine translation is coming
  • And your code remains intact
  • A counter so you don't get caught out
• Long-format series breathe easier
• Administration gains flexibility
• Plugins: you choose what you take with you
• Under the hood
• The program for the next few days

In one week, Blogr has released 7 versions — from v1.8.0 to v1.12.1. Not for the sake of numbers, but because multilingualism has just reached a new level.

#Machine translation is coming

Until now, translating an article or a CMS page required you to enter everything by hand. As of this week, Blogr knows how to translate for you.

You choose your engine:

• LibreTranslate — you host it, zero external dependencies, your data stays at home
• Azure Translator — 2 million characters offered each month for one year
• Google Cloud Translation — 500,000 free characters per month
• OpenAI (GPT-4o-mini) — via your API key

From the editor of a CMS page or an article, a Translate with AI button does the job: title, content, blocks, slug, SEO. The source language is detected automatically, you choose the target.

#And your code remains intact

echo 'hello world'; will not become écho 'bonjour le monde';. Code blocks (triple and single backticks) are automatically preserved during translation. Only natural text goes through the API.

#A counter so you don't get caught out

Azure and Google have free quotas. Blogr follows them for you. In Settings > AI Translation, a monthly summary shows you how many characters you've already used and how many are left. LibreTranslate and OpenAI have no limits — you can translate without counting.

#Long-format series breathe easier

When a series accumulates episodes, the page could become endless. Now the top 10 items are displayed, the next ones are hidden behind a Show X extra items button. One click is all it takes to display them all.

The threshold is set in Settings > Series. You can change it to 5, 20, 50 — depending on your style.

#Administration gains flexibility

• The path is no longer fixed. You wanted to /admin? /backoffice? /redaction? It's in Settings > General*, and a command php artisan blogr:sync-admin-path updates the configuration file.

• Translation forms no longer run away from you.** The Save, Save & Back, and Cancel buttons remain visible at the very top of the editor — no more endless scrolling to find the save button.

• Two-factor authentication is installed in one command. php artisan blogr:install-breezy installs Filament Breezy, creates the theme, configures the provider, adds the trait to the User template, and migrates the database. All that remains is to do npm run build to compile the assets.

#Plugins: you choose what you take with you

Blogr has a real plugin system. Once installed with Composer, each extension can be activated or disabled from the interface, with a simple toggle — no code comments, no config files to edit. The deactivation is immediate: the plugin is put to sleep without breaking anything.

Two plugins are already available:

• blogr-gdpr — published on Packagist happytodev/blogr-gdpr. Cookies consent, GDPR, user consent management. You activate it, it integrates; You deactivate it, it disappears.
• blogr-comments — happytodev/blogr-comments. Threads, votes, Markdown, moderation, multi-layered anti-spam (Turnstile, StopForumSpam, Akismet), email notifications. A complete commenting system, decoupled from the core.

The toggle is a real CSS switch with a sliding animation — a small visual pleasure that makes managing extensions almost satisfying.

#Under the hood

This week, it's also 1077 tests that are running (3236 assertions), bug fixes on the display of translation links in the admin, and a redesign of the BlockTranslator so that each type of CMS block is correctly translated (hero, team, pricing, blog_posts... the 15 types).

All 9 social media URL fields in the footer have been cleaned up — the Chrome error "invalid form control not focusable" that appeared in the console when you saved the settings is a thing of the past.

#The program for the next few days

• Deploy AI translation capabilities on happyto.dev
• Finalization of the comments plugin (happytodev/blogr-comments)
• Advanced testing on Azure Translator and Google Cloud Translate

Blogr v1.12.1 — PHP 8.3+, Laravel 12+, Filament v4 Any hesitation? Any idea? Open an issue.