Description
Try the live demo first
Open the Inkfold live demo and sign in to the newsroom or as a subscriber with one click. The demo runs a fictional daily newspaper with a regional edition and a premium weekend magazine, a month of editions, clickable stories and printed adverts.
What you get
- Full source codeThe complete Laravel 12 application, nothing encrypted. Adapt it for your newspaper or your clients.
- One-command installRun
php artisan inkfold:installon cPanel hosting or a VPS, or start it with Docker. A MySQL schema and a sample newspaper generator are included. - DocumentationSetup guide for VPS, cPanel and Docker, payment gateway set-up, architecture notes, deployment checklist and changelog.
Features
- A real e-paper readerSingle page or two-page spread, zoom with a sharper image on demand, thumbnails, date picker, keyboard and swipe, full screen.
- Clickable storiesDraw a box around each story; readers open it in large type and every story gets its own shareable, indexable page.
- Fast publishingUpload page images, a whole edition as one ZIP, or the print PDF; the PDF’s text fills each story by itself.
- Sell onlineSubscription plans and single editions with Stripe, PayPal, SSLCommerz or bKash; premium editions, free preview pages and an archive paywall.
- Print adverts that clickMark the printed adverts, link them to the advertiser and report clicks per advertiser with CSV export.
- Four languagesReader site in English, Bengali, Hindi and Arabic (right to left); add more with one JSON file.
- Newsroom workflowFour roles with a review step, a story mapper with drag, resize, undo and copy-previous-layout, analytics, backups and an activity log.
- Built for search and mobileNewsArticle structured data, Google News sitemap, installable web app with offline reading, WebP pages and an own domain per publication.
Requirements
- PHP 8.2 or newer with GD (FreeType), the usual Laravel extensions and zip, Composer 2
- MySQL 8+ or MariaDB 10.3+ (PostgreSQL and SQLite also work)
- cPanel shared hosting, any VPS, or Docker; one cron line for email alerts and weekly backups
Licence and support
- Single-site licence: one publisher on one production site, plus any number of non-public test copies
- 12 months of updates included
- Installation help by email: info@charmingtheme.com
Charming Theme Exclusive means the software is built and supported in-house by our own developers. The demo newspaper “The Meridian” and all its stories, people and advertisers are fictional.












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