Initial baseline: LaraBlog core with plugin commerce surface.

Captures the current working tree after theme slots, ArticleAccess, and the payment / paid-content plugins so subsequent work has a reviewable git history.

config/image.php

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+<?php
+
+use Intervention\Image\Drivers\Gd\Driver;
+
+return [
+
+    /*
+    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    | Image Driver
+    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    |
+    | Intervention Image supports “GD Library” and “Imagick” to process images
+    | internally. Depending on your PHP setup, you can choose one of them.
+    |
+    | Included options:
+    |   - \Intervention\Image\Drivers\Gd\Driver::class
+    |   - \Intervention\Image\Drivers\Imagick\Driver::class
+    |
+    */
+
+    'driver' => Driver::class,
+
+    /*
+    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    | Configuration Options
+    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    |
+    | These options control the behavior of Intervention Image.
+    |
+    | - "autoOrientation" controls whether an imported image should be
+    |    automatically rotated according to any existing Exif data.
+    |
+    | - "decodeAnimation" decides whether a possibly animated image is
+    |    decoded as such or whether the animation is discarded.
+    |
+    | - "blendingColor" Defines the default blending color.
+    |
+    | - "strip" controls if meta data like exif tags should be removed when
+    |    encoding images.
+    */
+
+    'options' => [
+        'autoOrientation' => true,
+        'decodeAnimation' => true,
+        'blendingColor' => 'ffffff',
+        'strip' => false,
+    ],
+];