Here's how things work with my category archives at the moment:

From the index page, there's a menu on the left side linking to categories.

When clicking on a category, you end up on the category archive, with all the posts in the selected category.

What I would like to have instead of that is a listing of all the titles of the posts in that selected category, as well as an excerpt (20 words or so, like in the notification).

From that page, a visitor interested in seeing the entire entry would click on a title which would take him to the individual archive.

Any suggestion on how to do this? I've checked this forum and haven't seen anything that seems to address this specific use of archives.

Yes, this is how I do it on several of my blogs. You'll need to modify the Category Archive template. Use MTEntry* tags to get the combination of elements you want for each entry.

So for the titles, links, and excerpts, you'd do something like this:


You probably need to add more formatting tags in there, but that should get you started.

Kristine