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October CMS plugins

October CMS plugins
by Amjad Iqbal.

Plugins for October CMS 4: a modern block editor, a Vue 3 widget engine, change history with one-click restore, the blog tools RainLab Blog 2 is missing, and no-code dashboard charts. Each one is tested on a real October install before it ships.

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Plugins
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Free & open source
BlockCraft: The modern TipTap block editor & document builder for October CMS.
BlockCraft's TipTap editor with a heading, paragraph, bulleted list and blockquote in an October CMS backend form
01 Form widget · Open source

BlockCraft

AmjadIqbal.BlockCraft

The modern TipTap block editor & document builder for October CMS.

A drop-in replacement for October's Froala rich editor: a Vue 3 + TipTap block editor that saves clean HTML or structured JSON, and stays stable inside Tailor repeaters.

  • Clean HTML or structured TipTap JSON output, chosen per field
  • Opens October's own Media Manager for images, with no extra setup
  • Server-side sanitization in both modes, independent of the browser
  • Stable inside Tailor and FormController repeaters, with no leaked editors
  • Table and image editing bars, plus an HTML source mode that is still sanitized
  • Toolbar buttons, height and read-only mode set from fields.yaml
  • Ships pre-built: no build step to install
October CMS
4.2+
PHP
8.2+
Latest version
v0.2.0
Licence
Free · MIT

Live on the October CMS Marketplace

$ composer require amjadiqbal/blockcraft-plugin
VueForge: The rapid Vue 3 component & widget engine for October CMS backend interfaces.
A VueForge TagInput and JsonEditor widget in an October CMS backend form
02 Developer tool · Open source

VueForge

AmjadIqbal.VueForge

The rapid Vue 3 component & widget engine for October CMS backend interfaces.

Drop a real Vue 3 single-file component into any October CMS backend form as a FormWidget, with props, JSON save and load, and two-way sync already wired up.

  • Vue 3 single-file components (script setup, TypeScript) compiled by Vite
  • Two-way v-model sync with the form's native submit
  • Saved values are parsed and sanitized server-side before they are stored
  • php artisan vueforge:make scaffolds a new widget and its component
  • TagInput and JsonEditor example widgets included
  • Works on JSON columns and plain text columns, including Tailor fields
October CMS
4.2+
PHP
8.2+
Latest version
v0.1.11
Licence
Free · MIT

Live on the October CMS Marketplace

$ composer require amjadiqbal/vueforge-plugin
ChangeTrail: Change history, diffs and one-click restore for any backend record in October CMS 4.x.
ChangeTrail's History tab on a product record: who changed each field, the diff, and Restore buttons
03 Audit trail · Premium

ChangeTrail

AmjadIqbal.ChangeTrail

Change history, diffs and one-click restore for any backend record in October CMS 4.x.

See who changed what and when on any backend record, compare it word by word, and put a field back with one click. Set up from the settings page, without editing a single model.

  • History tab on every tracked record, with a word-level diff
  • Restore one field or a whole change set, permission-gated and confirmed
  • Activity Log across all records, filtered by date, user, event and type
  • Zero-code setup: pick models and Tailor sections in Settings
  • Passwords, tokens, secrets and API keys are masked and never stored
  • Retention setting with a daily prune through the October scheduler
October CMS
4.4+
PHP
8.2+
Latest version
v1.0.1
Licence
Paid

Coming soon to the October CMS Marketplace

BlogPlus: Tags, search, popular and related posts for RainLab Blog on October CMS 4.x.
04 Blog extension · Premium

BlogPlus

AmjadIqbal.BlogPlus

Tags, search, popular and related posts for RainLab Blog on October CMS 4.x.

The extension pack RainLab Blog 2 needs on October CMS 4: tags you create while writing, blog search, view counts with popular posts, and related posts. It replaces the old free add-ons that no longer work as shipped on October CMS 4.4, and imports their data.

  • Tags: a Tags tab on the post form (type to create), a tag cloud, tag pages and a backend tag filter
  • Blog search with highlighted matches, scoped by category or tag
  • A bot-filtered view counter, a Views column and a Popular Posts component
  • Related posts, ranked by shared tags, then categories
  • Imports tags and view counts from BlogTags, Blog Taxonomy and Blog Views
  • Zero-code setup: switch features on in Settings and drop the components on your pages
October CMS
4.2+
Requires
RainLab Blog 2.x
PHP
8.2+
Latest version
v1.0.0
Licence
$19 · Paid

Live on the October CMS Marketplace

$ php artisan plugin:install AmjadIqbal.BlogPlus
DashMetrics: No-code dashboard charts and KPIs from any model or Tailor section, on October CMS 4.x.
An October CMS Dashboard built with DashMetrics: revenue, orders, average order and paid rate, revenue by month, orders by status and revenue by category
05 Dashboard · Premium

DashMetrics

AmjadIqbal.DashMetrics

No-code dashboard charts and KPIs from any model or Tailor section, on October CMS 4.x.

October CMS 4 has a great Dashboard, but charting your own data means writing a PHP data source. DashMetrics lets you point the Dashboard's own indicator, chart and table widgets at any model or Tailor section from a settings screen: pick what to count or add up, how to group it, and which records to include. No PHP, no SQL.

  • Datasets: any plugin model or Tailor entry, stream or structure section becomes a Dashboard data source
  • Count, count distinct, sum, average, minimum and maximum, as numbers, currency or percentages
  • Group by day, week, month, quarter or year with the Dashboard's own date range and comparison
  • Group by any column or related record, and keep only the records that match your conditions
  • Preview the numbers on the dataset form before adding widgets
  • Works on MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and SQLite, with permissions and sensitive columns kept out
October CMS
4.4+
PHP
8.2+
Latest version
Not released yet
Licence
Paid

Coming soon to the October CMS Marketplace

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