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  moecando · Member · Mar 14, 2008 at 11:52 pm

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  Hi, is there a way either with self-hosted wordpress or the hosted version
  that you can have three columns side-by-side, and different users can post into each of these columns?

  the motivation behind it is to have people debating each other, and for the posts on the same debate to be aligned with each other horizontally.

  thanks.

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  universalgeni · Member · Mar 15, 2008 at 12:39 am

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  I really don’t know what the Prologue theme is about but it offers features in the direction you have in mind. Not exactly as you describe but something like it:

  http://wordpress.com/blog/2008/01/28/introducing-prologue/

  Prologue Gets an Update

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  moecando · Member · Mar 16, 2008 at 8:16 pm

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  thanks. yeah that’s interesting cuz it’s very multi-user…which is what i’m looking for…
  but i really want basically two or three people’s post columns side-by-side….
  but that is cool no doubt.

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  universalgeni · Member · Mar 16, 2008 at 8:26 pm

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  You would have to browse themes over at wordpress.org. Also ask in their Forum threads. We know a lot about limitations – they know a lot about possibilities. Well, it is a bit unfair to put it that way but it is not entirely untrue…

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 16, 2008 at 9:33 pm

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  You certainly would not be able to do that on WordPress.com.

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 16, 2008 at 9:35 pm

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  Isn’t debate usually sequential, though? Which is why so much of it works so well in the comments section. Putting them side-by-side implies that they occur at the same time, instead of one person making points and the other responding.

  I think a classic blog layout might serve you better, with posts by alternate authors.