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I am looking to have a blog that instead of listing all the posts on the home page, it lists a link to the posts on the home page. I need 2 columns. Take a look at [login to view URL] I want it to be how the posts and article appear on this site. I could easily just make some tables and and manually edit everything, but I wanted to see if there was some way for posts to appear automatically after they are submitted. Also an archives list / previous posts lists just like the site mentioned above. Maybe there is a plugin that some one knows about. Thanks