Hello everyone:

I've done my best to search the boards on this one, so forgive me if I'm repeating anything.

My situation requires that I have some pages as well as posts.  When selecting 'pages' for both Featured Content and Editors' Picks, I get the exact same content for both sections.  I would like to be able to assign pages to each section accordingly, so here's what I've done so far, and below is my question:

I have added the following code to allow for assigning categories to pages.  It works quite well, and saves as it should:

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  Step 1) Open up the functions.php file in the theme’s root folder

  Step 2) Paste the code below into functions.php

   // Adds categories to pages
   add_action('admin_init', 'reg_tax');
   function reg_tax() {
   register_taxonomy_for_object_type('category', 'page');
   add_post_type_support('page', 'category');
   }

  Step 3) Save and upload functions.php
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So far, so good.  My problem now is that when I go to the dashboard, choose the Arras option, and choose the Home tab, the Taxonomies options for the Featured Posts #1 & #2, which I have set to Pages, do not recognize that there are categories assigned to the pages.  This is unlike the News option, set to Posts, which offers all the categories.

I had hoped to have 'Featured Stories' and 'Editors Picks' categories that I would assign to the various pages, then go into the Home section and allow only the appropriate category per each section.  This would give me total freedom to choose which pages go in those sections.

I've been through lines and lines of code and wearing out my search features chasing everything I can in the Arras theme code and I just cannot find where I can allow it to recognize pages with categories just like it recognizes posts with categories.

I'm using WP 3.3.1 and Arras Theme 1.5.1.2

Is there a simple solution for this?  Anyone have any ideas?