CMS / WordPress
Multi-Site Blog Management Dashboard
Custom Laravel Admin Panel for Multi-Domain Content & SEO Management
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Project Overview
Built a custom Laravel-based admin dashboard to manage blog content across a network of 40+ independently hosted websites from a single control panel. The system replaced a bare-bones legacy setup with a full-featured CMS including a professional rich-text editor, role-based access control, scheduled publishing, and complete on-page SEO tooling (meta tags, Open Graph, Twitter Cards, and auto-generated JSON-LD schema). Also engineered a lightweight public API layer so sites hosted on entirely different providers can pull and render blog content securely without direct database access.
Challenges & Solutions
Challenge: The client had 40+ live sites already generating real traffic, all sharing one production database — any migration or restructuring risked breaking live content.
Solution: Designed every database change as strictly additive (new nullable columns/tables only), never modifying or dropping existing structures, so the legacy sites kept working throughout development.
Challenge: Sites were split across two different hosting providers, and cross-server database access wasn't reliable or secure.
Solution: Built a lightweight, API-key-protected REST API so externally hosted sites fetch blog content over standard HTTPS instead of connecting to the database directly.
Challenge: Multiple employees needed to manage content, but each should only touch the sites assigned to them.
Solution: Implemented a role-based permission system with a site-assignment layer — Admins retain full access, while staff accounts are scoped to only their assigned sites at the controller level (not just hidden in the UI).
Solution: Designed every database change as strictly additive (new nullable columns/tables only), never modifying or dropping existing structures, so the legacy sites kept working throughout development.
Challenge: Sites were split across two different hosting providers, and cross-server database access wasn't reliable or secure.
Solution: Built a lightweight, API-key-protected REST API so externally hosted sites fetch blog content over standard HTTPS instead of connecting to the database directly.
Challenge: Multiple employees needed to manage content, but each should only touch the sites assigned to them.
Solution: Implemented a role-based permission system with a site-assignment layer — Admins retain full access, while staff accounts are scoped to only their assigned sites at the controller level (not just hidden in the UI).