I am trying to create a blog that is primarily a user forum for comment and reply to a related website. Ideally it would be two or three columns, with the main column centered and wider, which is for the comments, most recent first. My own blog entries, most recent first, would appear on the right. Left column could have categories, blogroll, etc.
Is there a WP Theme that already does this? I have been unable to find one? It is important for my purposes that comments appear most recent at the top, and not at the bottom of my blog entries.
Keith
Reversing the comments order is the easiest part.
However, comments in WP don't exist "in the air" - independently. They are always tied to an entry (be it post or Page or attachment). Did you take that in consideration?
The enhanced Comments features that are coming in the upcoming WP 2.7 Upgrade should be useful for a site like that too (such as threaded comments and reply-to-comment).
As for the theme, start with finding a theme with 3 columns in the size you want. You can hack the blog-post stuff OUT of the middle column and replace it with your Recent Comments, and then put your blog-post stuff into the right sidebar.
anekiti
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