SmartEnd CMS - Laravel Admin Dashboard with Frontend and Restfuls API v12.0.0

Version 12.0.0 (September 26, 2025)

How to update to Smartend version 12.0.0?

Laravel Update:
- To Laravel v12.30.1 (Requires PHP >= 8.2).

Fixes:
- Resolved date picker issue on frontend public forms.
- Fixed topic link problem in frontend table list view.
- Corrected delivery issues on commenting and ordering forms.
- Fixed popup details field bug for new languages.
- Resolved issue with removing users linked to calendar events.
- Fixed newsletter box disabling issue in footer.
- Corrected SMTP connection issues caused by spaces in passwords.

New Features:
- Landing Pages Module: Introduced a new module type dedicated to landing pages.
- Custom Home Page: Ability to set a custom landing page as the homepage.
- Custom Code Injection: Add custom CSS, JS, or code snippets to modules, categories, or topics.
- Instant Indexing: New SEO feature for faster indexing.
- Amazon S3 Integration: Option to use Amazon S3 for file storage.
- Custom Image Sizes: Generate images with parameters like ?w=100&h=100&r=fit.
- Multi-Checkbox Field: Added as a new custom field type.
- Rich Text Field: Long text field with editor added to custom fields.
- Category-Specific Fields: Assign custom fields per category.
- SEO Language Option: Choose whether slugs follow the preferred language or default to English.
- Featured Topics: Mark topics as featured to pin them at the top.
- Customize Social Links: Add, or remove social links with more control.
- Category Description: Added description field for every category.
- Preview Inactive Topics: Admins can preview unpublished topics.
- Customizable Photo Titles: Add custom titles to additional photos tab.
- Tags Page: A new public /tags page listing all tags.

Improvements
- Enhanced storage system with the ability to move the uploads folder outside public_html.
- Improved public forms with spam prevention.
- Updated visitor analytics providers.
- Added ability to clone modules.
- Refined SEO Fix options in SEO settings.
- Improved test mail connection to support all providers.
- Enhanced related topics tab with better topic selection.
- Added embedded audio support in audio module.
- Updated icon picker with Font Awesome 5 support.
- Enhanced WhatsApp bubble settings.
- Display FAQs block on the contact page.
- Optimized caching and performance across the system.

Version 10.0.3 (February 23, 2024)
- Fix: Category defining on importing data to the site section.
- Fix: Add the translation of all languages to the date picker.
- Fix: Hide the language flag for one language websites
- Fix: Speedup loading for dashboard data tables on big data.
- Feature: Improve loading speed by indexing, caching config and route caching.
- Feature: Improve SEO and add nested slugs by section/category/topic.
- Feature: Rebuild frontend theme with bootstrap 5 support.
- Feature: Add more control of frontend theme colors with predefined sets.
- Feature: Ability to make the menu bar transparent over the homepage slider.
- Feature: Add custom video player for hosted video files.
- Feature: Add custom sound player for audio files.
- Feature: Add the FAQ section (Accordion View) type
- Feature: Add clone topics feature.
- Feature: Ability to add up to 3 levels on the main website menu.
- Feature: Ability to add up to 3 levels on categories.
- Feature: Ability to add an icon to any link on the website menu.
- Feature: Ability to set links to open in a new tab automatically.
- Feature: Ability to add a custom link for every language on the website menu.
- Feature: Support any language on page slugs.
- Feature: Add cover photo for site section, category or topic.
- Feature: Add Support to ".webp" extension on photos.
- Feature: Add optimize & resize feature for images on SEO settings.
- Feature: Show sitemap links on SEO settings.
- Feature: Ability to add html on close message on maintenance mode.
- Feature: Add custom route file and custom controller for any customization.
- Feature: Ability to overwrite any page by custom coded page.
- Feature: Add Table of content feature for CKEditor.
- Feature: Add Thread link on social media links.
- Feature: Ability to show a general search box on frontend header.
- Feature: Ability to show cookies policy notification.

IMPORTANT: This update will affect your website SEO because it will change all the website links to a new nested path depending on "section/category/topic".
You may need to change some pages slugs or menu links.