Feature to allow editors to provide descriptive metadata for taxonomy terms

[hughbris]

I'm going to look into whether I can figure this out. It was "suggested" by a question in Slack a few days ago.

Could we provide a way to show a custom page for specific taxonomy terms? Presently, a route like animals:cats will typically show a list of items matching that term. (It's still a bit magic to me, but it seems the Page class populates the page's collection with page items matching the term(s)). We would want the page showing that list of matching pages to be able to show extra information about the term (a paragraph about cats, for example).

[hughbris]

In practical more general terms, this means providing a mechanism to expose extra information about the term to the templates. Populating the term tree should be sufficient to achieve this.

For sourcing the metadata, I am going to look at using a filesystem pattern similar to those used for media metadata, media thumbnails, and language files. So a file like user/pages/taxonomy/animals/cats.md might contain our info in YAML frontmatter and Markdown. It could also be 'user/taxonomy...oruser/config/taxonomy...`

[hughbris]

Been thinking about the modifications required for this to work. It's pretty much an extension to the taxonomy class with few or no changes to existing code. Apart from its discreetness, am thinking I'll build this as a plugin to start with because:

• too much uncertainty over fitting new code in with existing core "architecture" and style
• I know major changes are afoot for G2 taxonomy

Comments on this direction welcome of course, but I would appreciate if this isn't closed in a rush while I explore that option more fully :)