Ideally, I would like for it to be like a fancy version of the ‘Category Box with Topics’ that also pulls in the category logo & background image, along with the latest topics in that category.
However, if this isn’t straightforward using the standard theme/plugin extension mechanisms, the juice may well not be worth the squeeze, in which case I will either do it statically, or use the category boxes homepage layout and style them as needed.
I think two key tests are:
- Is there a standard way of surfacing a Select Category config item?
- Is there a standard way of adding metadata fields to the category settings modal?
Alternatively, if I can just use category IDs in the config, but still be able to pull the data programatically, then that would probably be ok.
If, however, it’s not really feasible to get at the category data in that way, then I’ll use one of the other approaches.