I would like to have something like "featured news" which is just selection of news which are to be published on the main page. Is there an simple way to do this in TYPO3?
I was thinking of creating a new category "Featured news", and when creating the article, you would assign it to its category and also to this category. But this is very clumsy - due to this bug you cannot do it directly and must first add the news with only one category, then edit it and add another.
I guess there must be some more correct solution for featured instead of hacking the categories?
I think using categories is the best way of doing it. To add more categories, just save it and continue editing.
Another option would be to create an extension that add this functionality to tt_news, but it could be overkill.