Steven Zahm@ funthingsaustin
Do you have the Widget Pack? You could use the category widget as a shortcode and then use CSS to tweak the display how you want. I have not yet documented how to use a widget as a shortcode, but it is pretty easy…
The Widget Pack adds a new sidebar name “Connections: Widget Shortcodes” to the theme, one that is never displayed. It is only used to add and configure Connections’ widgets to use as shortcode.
What you would do is add the category widget to this sidebar, configure it to display the categories you want and it’ll give you a shortcode that you can add to a page where you want the widget to be displayed. This multi-widget compatible so you could add multiple category widgets, each configured differently.
This might be an easier working solution? Does that help?