Build Your SaaS App in No Time with SaaSykit

SaaSykit is a feature-rich Laravel-based SaaS starter kit designed to accelerate the development of SaaS applications.

It provides developers with the solid foundation they need to launch their projects quickly while not sacrificing quality. Whether you're building a single-tenant SaaS for individual users or a multi-tenant platform for organizations, SaaSykit has you covered.

Why Choose SaaSykit?

Building a SaaS application is no small task. Beyond developing your core idea, you need to handle many things like payment integration, subscription management, product upgrades and downgrades, landing pages, email notifications, authentication, and much more. Starting from scratch can be overwhelming, time-consuming, and expensive.

By providing all the essential building blocks of a modern SaaS application, SaaSykit saves you from reinventing the wheel, letting you focus on building your unique SaaS features.

With over 320 happy customers who have already chosen SaaSykit to kickstart their SaaS projects you know you’re in good hands. 😍

SaaSykit features at a glance:

• 💰 Payment provider integration (Stripe, Paddle & Lemon Squeezy)
• 💻 Easy product, plan, discount and pricing management
• 📐 Flat-rate in & usage-based (metered billing)
• 👩 Stunning admin panel and user dashboard (powered by FilamentPHP)
• 🚪 Beautiful checkout process
• 🗓️ Ready-to-use components (hero sections, features, testimonials, and more)
• 🥑 Built-in user authentication and social login (Google, Facebook, X, and more) & reCAPTCHA
• 📈 SaaS metric tracking in a beautiful dashboard
• 🎨 Customizable landing page styling for your branding
• 🧾 Invoice generation
• 💌 Email templates and transactional emails
• 🎤 Site-wide announcements to keep your users informed
• 📝 Built-in Blog with automatic open graph image generation with many themes to choose from
• 🚧 Integrated Roadmap for your SaaS
• 🧒 User / role management
• 🌍 Fully translatable and SEO-optimized
• 🚀 One-press deployment
• 🧪 Clean code & automated test coverage included
• 🧑‍💻 Extensive documentation
• and much more

SaaSykit Tenancy features add the following in addition to the above:

• 👯 Multi-tenant dashboards
• 🤑 Seat-based subscriptions (charge per user) where billing is automatically synced with payment providers as users are added or removed from the tenant
• 💴 Flat-rate subscriptions per tenant
• 📩 User invitations to tenants
• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Team Management, adding & removing users from tenants
• 👮‍ Tenant Roles & Permissions to control what users can do within a tenant
• 🔌 Events for tenant actions (user added, removed, invited, etc.)

SaaSykit is designed to save developers time and effort while building SaaS platforms whether for themselves or their clients.

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Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1

About eight months ago we open-sourced our progress on Tailwind CSS v4.0. Hundreds of hours of fixing bugs, soul-crushing backward compatibility work, and troubleshooting Windows CI failures later, I’m excited to finally tag the first public beta release.

About eight months ago we open-sourced our progress on Tailwind CSS v4.0. Hundreds of hours of fixing bugs, soul-crushing backward compatibility work, and troubleshooting Windows CI failures later, I’m excited to finally tag the first public beta release.

As I talked about when we published the first alpha, Tailwind CSS v4.0 is an all-new engine built for performance, and designed for the modern web.

• Built for performance — full builds in the new engine are up to 5x faster, and incremental builds are over 100x faster — and measured in microseconds.
• Unified toolchain — built-in import handling, vendor prefixing, and syntax transforms, with no additional tooling required.
• CSS-first configuration — a reimagined developer experience where you customize and extend the framework directly in CSS instead of a JavaScript configuration file.
• Designed for the modern web — built on native cascade layers, wide-gamut colors, and including first-class support for modern CSS features like container queries, @starting-style, popovers, and more.

There’s so much more to say, but everything you need to get started is in the new beta documentation we published today:

Get started with Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1 →

Start building and help us bullet-proof this thing for the stable release early in the new year.

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Seasonal Color Palettes and Style Tips to Refresh Your Website for the Holidays

The end of the year is here, and with it comes a season of excitement and celebration! Whether you’re bundling up in cozy sweaters and snow boots or soaking up the sun in swimsuits, this time of year has something special for everyone. No matter where you are in the world, the final quarter brings festive holidays and celebrations to look forward to.

If you’re looking to capture the magic of the season on your website, try a pop of festive, holiday-inspired color or a cozy new theme. It’s the perfect way to welcome the season for you and your site visitors—whether they’re browsing for a holiday recipe, shopping for gifts, or exploring a guide to the best cross-country ski destinations.

Today we will show you how you can bring those festive feelings to your site with a few of our favorite color palettes and themes, along with where to find free illustrations and images to bring a refreshing seasonal touch to your site.

Festive color palettes

Here are four festive color palettes––ranging from bright and bold to chill and subtle––that will give your site some holiday spirit:

Joyful winter

This winter-inspired color palette features warm, inviting hues of soft coral and deep red, balanced by a neutral blush and grounded by cool teal and navy. Incorporating these colors into your WordPress site creates a cozy and joyful vibe.

Blush Ember #E37C77

Crimson Hearth #B84138

Rose Mist #DFC5C6

Teal Drift #3D8391

Midnight Fjord #1C4864

Winter frost

This winter color palette offers a harmonious blend of soft neutrals and cool blues, creating a warm and calm earthiness on your website. Perfect for a more sophisticated Hanukkah palette or a serene winter feel. 

Frosted Silver #DDDFDE

Cozy Taupe #C1B4A8

Chestnut Glow #A48E7F

Winter Night #365A72

Icy Horizon #6A91A9

Classic gingerbread

This palette captures the essence of a cozy, rustic holiday with its warm earthy tones and timeless charm—perfect for creating a welcoming, homey Christmas atmosphere. It’s so inviting, that you can almost smell the gingerbread baking!

Deep Forest Green #2E4D34

Warm Burlap #A67B5B

Cranberry Red #B22222

Creamy Beige #F5F5DC

Burnt Orange #D2691E

Jewel box winter

This palette is the jewel box of winter—perfect for those who prefer bold, vibrant colors in their branding and design. Its rich, saturated tones add a pop of color that stand out beautifully against classic autumn and winter hues. Best of all, it’s incredibly versatile, making it easy to expand and adapt throughout the year.

Golden Spice #E99739

Plum Wine #693551

Harvest Olive #686610

Forest Ember #273223

Creamy Chai #F8E1C8

Updating your site colors

Use any of these palettes as a starting point for your site’s color refresh. To begin, take a look at your existing site and see if one of these palettes align well with your existing site branding. You can do this by swapping in just a color or two—you likely won’t use every color in the palette. 

After choosing a palette, consider updating product or lifestyle images to echo these colors. If you need help sourcing stock photos, we’ll dive into that below.

If you’re new to customizing your site’s look, don’t worry—the WordPress.com Editor makes it easy. You can set a custom palette, add custom colors, and apply updates across your site, covering all the consistent elements like text, headings, links, backgrounds, buttons, and more.

When you’re ready to start implementing your new color palette, this tutorial is the perfect guide to get you going: Custom Colors on WordPress.com.

Winter-inspired themes

If you’re looking for a bigger site refresh, changing not just your colors but your theme can instantly elevate the look and feel of your website in a more impactful way. Here are a few of our favorite themes that instantly bring the cozy-cottage charm to life: 

Cottage

Cottage is a beautifully-crafted theme that brings the charm of the countryside to your online space. Featuring a warm palette of earthy tones, subtle textured backgrounds, and timeless serif fonts, Cottage is all about rustic simplicity and warm natural elements. 

Nook

Nook is a classic two-column blog theme with a sidebar. Its versatile, timeless design creates a warm, familiar feel, providing the perfect space for sharing your DIY projects, tasty recipes, and creative inspirations.

Dorna

Dorna is a clean, product-focused theme, and its warm, inviting design and simple layout make it ideal for online shops featuring cozy, modern homewares and furniture.

Resources for seasonal photography and illustrations

Photography and illustrations are fantastic ways to bring your new color palette and/or theme to life. If you’re not capturing photos yourself or just want a fresh look, Pexels, Unsplash, and Pixabay all offer a wide selection of free, high-quality photos and illustrations. Even better, Pexels is fully integrated into your WordPress.com media library, allowing you to easily add copyright-free images directly to your site.

When searching for images to add to your site, here are a few seasonal keywords to get you started: warm ambiance, hygge, fall leaves, snug nook, warm lighting, autumnal vibes, natural tones, fireside, rustic charm, homey feel, earthy tones, woolen textures, and cozy fall.

You can also incorporate seasonal pops of color by adding custom graphics to your site. Canva is an excellent tool for creating custom visuals, with easy-to-use templates for everything from banners to sidebar graphics. It’s a simple, freemium way to add that extra festive touch to your WordPress site.

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As we start looking at the new year ahead, it’s the perfect time to refresh your website with a look and feel that captures the spirit of the season—whether it’s fall and winter in the northern hemisphere or spring and summer in the southern hemisphere.

So go ahead—dive into the season with a new look! Try out one of our free or premium themes, and let your creativity run wild.

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PHP 8.4 is released with Property Hooks, Class Instantiation without extra parenthesis, and more

The PHP team has released PHP 8.4 today with new array find functions, property hooks, class instantiation without extra parenthesis, and more:

• New Array Find Functions in PHP 8.4 (RFC)
• Property Hooks in PHP 8.4 (RFC)
• Class instantiation without extra parenthesis in PHP 8.4 (RFC)
• New mb_trim functions (RFC)
• New mb_ucfirst() and mb_lcfirst() functions (RFC)
• Asymmetric Property Visibility in PHP 8.4 (RFC)
• And more...

See the PHP 8.4 RFC page for a complete list.

New Array Find Functions

PHP 8.4 will come with new array find functions that include:

• array_find()
• array_find_key()
• array_any()
• array_all()

See our post on the PHP 8.4 Array Find Functions.

PHP Property Hooks

Property hooks are inspired by languages like Kotlin, C#, and Swift, and the syntax includes two syntax variants that resemble short and multi-line closures:

class User implements Named
{
    private bool $isModified = false;
 
    public function __construct(
        private string $first,
        private string $last
    ) {}
 
    public string $fullName {
        // Override the "read" action with arbitrary logic.
        get => $this->first . " " . $this->last;
 
        // Override the "write" action with arbitrary logic.
        set {
            [$this->first, $this->last] = explode(' ', $value, 2);
            $this->isModified = true;
        }
    }
}

Property hooks will help remove boilerplate of property getters and setters, allowing a property to define access and updates using hooks.

Check out our post for more details: Property Hooks in PHP 8.4.

new MyClass()->method() without parentheses

Since member access during instantiation was introduced, you must wrap the new MyClass() call in parentheses, or you'll get a parse error. The proposed syntax would allow you to access constants, properties, and methods without the extra parentheses:

// Wrapping parentheses are required to access class members
$request = (new Request())->withMethod('GET')->withUri('/hello-world');
 
// PHP Parse error (<= PHP 8.3): syntax error, unexpected token "->"
$request = new Request()->withMethod('GET')->withUri('/hello-world');

This update fixes papercut that makes working with class member access simpler, not having to add surrounding parentheses or using a static constructor method. This syntax change also puts PHP more in alignment with other C languages like Java, C#, and TypeScript, which don't require surrounded parentheses.

Check out our post for more details: Class Instantiation Without Extra Parenthesis in PHP 8.4.

Create a DateTime from a Unix Timestamp

Creating a DateTime from a Unix timestamp will be more convenient in PHP 8.4, with the new createFromTimestamp() method. It will support both a typical Unix timestamp as well as timestamps containing microseconds:

$dt = DateTimeImmutable::createFromTimestamp(1718337072);
$dt->format('Y-m-d'); // 2024-06-14

$dt = DateTimeImmutable::createFromTimestamp(1718337072.432);
$dt->format('Y-m-d h:i:s.u'); // 2024-06-14 03:51:12.432000

In earlier versions of PHP, there are a few ways to create a DateTime instance from a timestamp, such as the createFromFormat() method:

$dt = DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat('U', (string) 1718337072);
// DateTimeImmutable @1718337072 {#7948
//   date: 2024-06-14 03:51:12.0 +00:00,
// }

$dt = DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat('U.u', (string) 1718337072.432);
// DateTimeImmutable @1718337072 {#7950
//   date: 2024-06-14 03:51:12.432 +00:00,
// }

New mb_ functions

PHP has had trim, ltrim, rtrim, ucfirst, and lcfirst functions for a long time, and now in PHP 8.4 it adds mb_, multi-byte strings support for those functions.

• mb_trim()
• mb_ltrim()
• mb_rtrim()
• mb_ucfirst()
• mb_lcfirst()

These all carry the same arguments as the original functions. These functions are from two separate RFCs: rfc:mb_trim and rfc:mb_ucfirst.

Asymmetric Property Visibility

Starting in PHP 8.4, properties may also have their visibility set asymmetrically with a different scope for reading and writing. Here's an example from the documentation:

class Book
{
    public function __construct(
        public private(set) string $title,
        public protected(set) string $author,
        protected private(set) int $pubYear,
    ) {}
}
 
class SpecialBook extends Book
{
    public function update(string $author, int $year): void
    {
        $this->author = $author; // OK
        $this->pubYear = $year; // Fatal Error
    }
}
 
$b = new Book('How to PHP', 'Peter H. Peterson', 2024);
 
echo $b->title; // How to PHP
echo $b->author; // Peter H. Peterson
echo $b->pubYear; // Fatal Error

Check out our post for more details: Asymmetric Property Visibility in PHP 8.4.

Laravel Herd already supports 8.4

If you are looking for an easy way to start using PHP 8.4, Laravel Herd already includes support and you can switch to it super easy.

PHP 8.4.1 is here! 🎉

One-click to explore all new features in Laravel Herd
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Learn more

To get up to speed on these new features, check out the PHP 8.4.0 Release Announcement page for examples before/after PHP 8.4. Be sure to check out the deprecations and backward compatibility breaks.

The following list of additional resources has everything you need to learn more about this release:

• The UPGRADING document includes backward-incompatible changes, new features, and everything else you'll need to familiarize yourself with changes in PHP 8.4
• The NEWS document has detailed notes about each release
• The PHP 8.4 preparation tasks page has the release timeline of the upcoming releases
• You can download PHP 8.4 source from the downloads page

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