Hello Dave,
Thank you for your feedback.
1- yes , for now the tag requires to be in the introtext section of the article.
2. that number corresponds to the number of comments. Your template misses the icon-comment class as descibed in the JUI (
kyleledbetter.com/jui/icons/
) maybe you can change that icon-comment class with another wich is hopefully supported by your template .
3- Nice catch this was a bug, now fixed (updating the map module and the component mapmarkers model).
Redownload and update.( no version number change)
4 - You can if you want to use different markers for different categories. each marker should then be named x.png where x is the category ID.
Hope it helps