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A few people have asked what content management system I am using to run Blog Toppings. Early on I looked at a few different options but, in the end, I am really comfortable with Wordpress and decided to stick with it for this project. Being that Blog Toppings is an image and file blog of sorts it took some work to integrate the look I wanted into Wordpess. The first little hurdle was having these news items not appear in the main list. Wordpress makes this very easy to do with a simple conditional category check in “the loop”. The next major hurdle was how to get each post to have a featured image and a post image while displaying neither in the RSS feed. I used Wordpess’ custom fields to accomplish this. After that it was just a matter of formatting all the different templates for the custom theme. So far, it seems to be working pretty well (other than the fact that one mis-type in the custom fields boxes can mess all the formatting up). If anyone has anymore detailed or specific questions about the site please feel free to comment below. Happy Blogging.
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