I use custom category fields a little differently. Many of my sites require some pretty heavy hierarchical menu lifting to be done. I built the hierarchy using the categories.
Some categories or pages on the site then need to use different templates when displayed. I put a “template” field in the category and use this to point to the appropriate template.
HOME
- NEWS (Uses the “news” weblog, and the “/news” template to display)
- ABOUT US (Uses the “static-page” weblog, and the “/page” template to display)
So here I would put the weblog and template names in CFFs. Then I have a custom plugin which generates my menu and creates all the appropriate URLs.
You can do all sorts of crazy stuff with this!
Cheers,
Af.