Edward Caissie

You’re welcome! Glad it worked out for you.

IF the first snippet of code does what you are looking for and the second provides the correct order try this:

<?php
  if($post->post_parent)
  $children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->post_parent."&echo=0&sort_column=menu_order");
  else
  $children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->ID."&echo=0&sort_column=menu_order");
  if ($children) { ?>
  <ul>
  <?php echo $children; ?>
  </ul>
  <?php } ?>

Yes, although it is considered a bit of a “hack” … after the_content(), add this:

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

Well I must admit it was a bit of a stab in the dark, the Theme author may be interested in these issues and may offer other solutions. In the meantime, you can remove what you just added as “it does not seem to work.”

… and try this (again, all of these are being offered without testing):

div.texty small {
  clear: both;
}

This is a common “clear float” issue often seen when doing Theme reviews.

Again, taking from your theme:

.postmetadata {
    background: url("images/shadow.gif") no-repeat scroll center bottom transparent;
    clear: both;
    margin: 0 0 60px;
    min-height: 40px;
    padding: 6px 0;
}

This time from the index view, I would expect if you add an additional element using the ‘.texty’ class ( .texty .postmetadata { … } ) to your style sheet you should see the correction you are looking for. The key is the ‘clear:both;’ property.

It looks like you need to add some basic style sheet elements to your theme:

.texty img.alignleft {
    display: inline;
    margin: 3px 7px 3px 0;
    padding: 5px;
}

The above was taken from your single view of the first post. If you drop the ‘.texty’ and add that style element to your main styles.css file you should see the correction you are looking for.

<?php
$category = get_the_category( $post->ID );
$cat_choice = $category[0]->cat_ID;
query_posts( "cat=$cat_choice&posts_per_page=2&offset=1" );
if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
  // the content et al.
endwhile; else :
  // no posts etc.
endif;
wp_reset_query();
?>

Not much more I can do with that … you will have to fill in the blanks from there.

PS: Although tested to insure it works (pasted into a sidebar.php file in a random theme on one of my test sites) your mileage may vary. EAC

I would have a look through the examples on this page: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts

Look at the ‘offset’ parameter to skip the first post.

You can create and use a second query after the “single” post is displayed (remember to reset the query afterward, just in case). This normally works fine as the ‘sidebar’ is generally called after the content is displayed.

This might get you started:

query_posts( "cat=$cat_choice&posts_per_page=2&offset=1" );