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I am also interested in setting something like this up. If anybody could offer some direction I would be grateful. Thank you.

yeah, seems to work well (mac safari). it adds columns (moves to the right) not rows though.

scary. thank you for doing this jonimueller. very helpful. I will need to refine the css a lot more. I’ve really been focusing on this wp problem first and haven’t spent much time on the actual layout.

if anybody wants to see my header, single, index, sidebar.php templates just let me know and i’ll email them. i suppose they are too long to post here, no?

oh man. thanks mueller. again this seems strange to me, but good to know as i’ll have to work around this for people with smaller screens.

my mac is at 1280 x 854
and my pc is at 1680 x 1050
yes strange that it truncated the names, but good to know, that will certainly not be acceptable for people with smaller screens. you think that is the problem? but the css should still display normal and you would need to scroll. i don’t see why anything would be truncated because of a smaller screen.

– no if statement in my header.php
– my single.php is exactly the same as my index.php (thus my confusion as to why it is displaying differently).
– i’m not using a recent post plugin because i want to exlude certain categories from this list. for example i have a news section (as well as other categories) that should not be a part of this project list. But i’m certainly open to using a plugin if it will help me achieve this. perhaps I am going about this in a backwards way? i don’t think so though.

moshu,
sounds like you are experiencing the problem. the titles should still be listed on the right sidebar just like they are on the index page. the “test” that appears is good and is just a filler for some content for that project.
I really started with a clean slate and pulled and inserted code based on the articles in the codex and at times from code from the default theme. but all in all there is not much php in my theme yet because i’ve really just been trying to get this part to work!

jonimueller,
yes you understand me correctly, all of the link should still appear on the sidebar. the basic idea is that the project title that you are currently viewing will be highlighted in a different color (or underlined, styled differently from the rest) than the rest of the project titles. but all should still be visible and clickable.
interesing that you get different results than i do. i’ve tried on both a mac with safari + firefox and on windows using firefox and get the same results:
# avery –> avery
# beirut –> beirut
# amy lipton gallery –> amy lipton gallery
# the london project –> the london project

arlo, thanks for the link. But, i’m not using any coppermine plugin code. the sidebar code really only consists of the code i mentioned abovea€??again i’m really trying to isolate this problem so i’ve stripped everything else out. I’ve tried with all plugins off as well, same problem.

moshu, those are exactly the links you should be seeing! those are the project names i described above. when you click on those you get to the project page where the same list of project names should appear, but for some reason it’s only working correctly on the index page.

sorry for the confusion. the rest of the “content” isn’t there because i am really trying to isolate this problem. so yes i took out the content in the main areas, i.e. it’s normal that there is a lot of white space. agaiin I just wanted to bare down the code to isolate this problem to make sure it wasn’t anything else that was messing it up.

Ok, I’ve checked on my mac and on my pc (firefox) and both display fine. Looking at your screenshot it looks like the text is therea€??i can see a bit of the ‘t’a€??just scroll to the right more. Are you viewing on a smaller-sized screen? If you scroll to the right you should see the sidebar.

Whoa! that’s strange. I think maybe it was just to light a grey on your screen. I’ve now changed it to stark red. Let me know if you see them now. sorry about that.

oriecat: thank you for your reply. I’m not sure I follow you though. What exactly is not clear about my posts above? so I may better explain the problem. What do you mean you don’t see any WP information? I’m not having any css “style” problems, rather WP php problems. When you click on the link https://www.stanallenarchitect.com/lab/ you’ll see a list of projects on the sidebar to the right (this is good the code is working on the index page). If you click on one of the projects however, you will see that the sidebar now only contains the current project name (it should contain the same list of projects as on the index page). It is the same code in the index page as in the project page… so why is it displaying differently. The code that I am currently using in my sidebar is this:

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

<?php query_posts('cat=2,3,4,5,6,7'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<li id="project-<?php the_id(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile;?>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<li id="project-<?php the_id(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endif; ?>