juliageek

Just for info, I have managed to do this. In case anyone’s interested, here it is, so the left col displays the list of posts with excerpts, the right col shows the selected post.
I made this single.php in my theme. NB I used the guerilla_excerpt plugin.

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="main">
<div id="archivecol">
<!-- this displays the archive -->
<?php
$myposts = get_posts('numberposts=-1&offset=$debut');
foreach($myposts as $post) :
?>
<!--this next bit of code allows a different display for the excerpt for the current post in the postcol div -->
<div<?php if ( $post->ID == $wp_query->post->ID ) { echo ' class="xcurrent"'; } else {} ?>>
<?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<?php guerrilla_excerpt('40','...&nbsp; more','none','span','no'); ?>
</div>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</div><!-- end of archivecol -->

<div id="postcol">
<!-- this displays the current post -->
<?php if ( have_posts() ) while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
<p class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></p>
<?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
</article>
<?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>
</div><!-- end of postcol -->
</div><!-- end of main -->

Thanks for the speedy response.
So I could make the user profiles show on the site…I’ll look into that. (The names in question aren’t actually users, but associate artists, but of course I didn’t think out of the box like that).

Yes, I can dynamically create the divs or tables, I was just thinking that it’s a sure way of busting a page if you leave them in place for an editor to work with directly on the page edit area.

Thank you for this.

Thanks
That sounds way, way over my head!
I’ve worked around the problem by putting stuff in the templates.

And, I tried adding the ‘grandparent category’ to the categories associated with the post, but, because it only gives an active class the a tag I don’t seem to be able to affect the ul below to make it display as a block. Is this right?