I am developing a paid plugin (don’t know whether it’s ok to public) where I need to set a category specific setting. Therefore, I compare several possible ways and proposal my suggestion. With existing convenient custom_fields, it’s intuitive to put category-specific settings in the CategoryCustom…

What settings do you have on each category that you need posted down? Is this simply an extra boolean. Why not add something to site serializer that lists the category ids that meet the condition … or something like that?

Just want to make sure :slight_smile: Already updated accordingly in the first post. Hope that helps others.

What's the best approach to access category specific settings?

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fantasticfears (Erick Guan) March 8, 2016, 10:45am 4

Just want to make sure

Already updated accordingly in the first post. Hope that helps others.

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What's the best approach to access category specific settings?

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