What to do when you need to quickly build a site in Laravel with admin, gallery, news etc (CMS basically)?

I love using Laravel but the biggest problem for me is when I need to build site quickly. Laravel has no admin (except some auth baked in, if I am not mistaken) so I am little afraid that I will waste way too much time building admin functionality, even get stuck, build not that safe one etc. There are some Laravel CMSs on net but who know how hard will it be to add functionality or modules and how good are they.

On the other hand, WordPress is much less joy to program for but if you install Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) and Custom Post Type(CPT) you can basically add new ADMIN modules with few clicks and then just build front-end. It is fantastically easy to let say implement any jquery plugin to admin that is not even made for WP: you just use ACF and CPT, make new custom post type "sliders", add custom fields and you are all set. All with few clicks.

For example, I need to build a site that would allow client to edit (in admin) content, in 2 languages, add some custom gallery and modules like news, promo etc. Also have a slider that you can add photos in the admin.

With WP, this is more or less baked in. For slider, we just install plugin and that's it. With the help of ACF and CPT (mentioned above) plugins I can add any number of fields to let say news module in seconds and everything is taken care of in the Database level.

So what do you guys do when you need to build site quickly, with not much resources and no time to build all standard modules and new admin AND you love to do it with Larvel? Or do you all have your own CMS by now? Laravel is great for Front-end but when you have to build admin from scratch it is not that friendly - or at least not so fast. It is understandable, Laravel is framework and WordPress is CMS but I really prefer Laravel... however I end up using WP a lot because it is faster and easier to build a site with some kind of CMS functionality.

I keep reading people saying "I use Laravel for my new project" , "I persuaded my company to switch to Laravel" etc... but how do you solve this CMS problem? I cant rely only on packages in packaging. So many people using Laravel so what kind of CMS or admin are you using for your projects?

Any feedback would be appreciated.

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