✨ Website - Blog Posts - Make category dropdown configurable in Tina

Requested by: @Calinator444 via YakShaver.ai 🦬
cc: @uly1, @Calinator444, @joshbermanssw, @brookjeynes-ssw, @adamcogan, @babakamyljanovssw

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Pain

Currently, the category selector for blog posts on the SSW Website is hardcoded. This feature request aims to implement a dynamic category selector that allows non-developers to add new categories to the dropdown menu via a global collection.

Acceptance Criteria

1. A global collection is created to manage blog post categories.
2. Non-developers can add new categories to the global collection.
3. The category dropdown menu dynamically updates to include new categories from the global collection.
4. The solution is tested and verified on the SSW Website (Dev - Next.js).

Screenshot

Figure: Hardcoded category selector for blog posts; propose global collection for dynamic categories.

Start at the Tina admin page at http://localhost:3000/admin/index.html and trace how blog post categories are currently configured. Define the global collection and connect the blog post dropdown to it, then verify on the SSW Website Dev - Next.js that non-developers can add a category and the dropdown updates accordingly.