Latest Version 1.5.0 – Oct 27, 2025 Click HERE to view the Changelog

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

Fix the issue where widgets could not be dragged and dropped

Improve hreflang SEO for multilingual sites

Improve UI

Focus on performance improvements, make site load faster

Update libraries to the latest versions

Katen – Blog & Magazine Laravel Script

Katen is a responsive and modern Laravel script, specially designed for magazines, personal blogs, newspapers, and writers. It is fully responsive and entirely customizable, with a unique web design that will enhance your website’s appearance.

Katen boasts a sleek minimalistic blog design ideal for IT or startup blogs, as well as personal blogs where authors can focus solely on their writing.

The theme comes with 5+ pre-built demo websites 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 12–24 hours.

Highlighted Features (Last Updated: 02 April 2024):

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

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.

10 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 – Video tutorial.

Multi-language: unlimited languages support.

Google Analytics: display analytics data in admin panel.

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.

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.

Free plugins

Free installation service

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://archielite.ticksy.com and give us access to your hosting (hosting URL, username and password), our dev team will install it for you.

Features

Demo

Homepage: https://katen.archielite.com
Admin panel: https://katen.archielite.com/admin
Admin account: admin – 12345678 (username & password are autofilled)
Member login URL: https://katen.archielite.com/login
Member account: member@archielite.com – 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’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 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 1.5.0 – Oct 27, 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
- Fix the issue where widgets could not be dragged and dropped
- Improve hreflang SEO for multilingual sites
- Improve UI
- Focus on performance improvements, make site load faster
- Update libraries to the latest versions

Version 1.4.5 – Oct 08, 2025

- Added phone number field to user profiles
- Added option to disable lazy loading for shortcodes
- Added IndexNow support for sitemap
- Added option to cache or ignore cache for specific widget/shortcode
- Added X (Twitter) social login
- Added email template for admin contact reply email
- Added push notifications for API and secure API by API key
- Added security page to admin dashboard (Admin -> Platform Administration -> Security Settings)
- Added option to make email optional in comment form
- 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
- 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
- Improved performance
- Fixed mime type detection
- Fixed media upload in subfolders
- Updated third-party libraries to the latest version

Version 1.4.4 – Jun 10, 2025

- Fix lazy image infinity
- 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
- Make it compatible with PHP 8.4
- Optimize source code
- Update third-party libraries to the latest version

Version 1.4.3 – May 03, 2025

- Fix error when updating cache settings
- Update jquery validation to the latest version to prevent security issues
- Add Bootstrap Grid Columns button to editor https://prnt.sc/kZwPbJqp3Qpj
- Add option to disable term & condition checkbox in contact form
- Added option to disable sitemap
- Add featured priority field to sort featured properties
- Improve properties/projects Excel import: add missing fields
- 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 1.4.2 – Apr 13, 2025

- Upgrade to Laravel framework version 12.x
- Improve invoice template, support RTL and fix Bangali language in invoice
- 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 1.4.1 – Mar 18, 2025

- Fix deprecation warning logs in PHP 8.3
- Fix warning when importing blog posts
- Fix error when go to widget manager page
- 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 1.4.0 – Feb 16, 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 1.3.0 – Dec 09, 2024

- Change minimum PHP version: Require PHP 8.2.0 or higher.
- Fix RTL issue in contact form
- 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.
- Add option to change upload folder in Settings -> Media
- Add the missing permission for managing contact custom fields.
- Add more Google Fonts & Tabler icons
- Remove unnecessary files post-installation.
- Optimize source code
- Update third-party libraries to the latest version
- Fix categories tree in post form
- Improve sitemap cache, fix cache is not refreshed when changing language
- Improve TinyMCE editor: add RTL mode
- Improve cache for better performance
- Optimize source code: Improve performance and maintainability.
- Update libraries: Upgrade dependencies to the latest versions.

Version 1.2.2 – Oct 14, 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 1.2.1 – Sep 18, 2024

- Fix missing translations in email templates
- Fix UI contact form
- Fix issue icon not show on mobile
- 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 1.2.0 – Aug 10, 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 1.1.6 – Jul 10, 2024

- Fix date format in blog post schema snippet
- Fix watermark size, image was being scaled
- Fix table sort icon: wrong direction
- Improve table quick search input: add clear button
- Add cache for menu items to make it load faster
- Add more settings for media: Add option to enable `Use path style endpoint?` for S3, Digital Ocean Spaces
- Ignore license server connection timeout error

Version 1.1.0 – Apr 25, 2024

- Improve performance & front theme UI
- Add option to upload/modify robots.txt file
- Improve theme UI
- Add dark mode
- Add Ajax load for better performance

Version 1.0 – Apr – 2024

 - First release.

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Katen - Blog & Magazine Laravel Script