I'm considering purchasing Articles Anywhere Pro as a replacement for some probably very badly written (and possibly insecure) hacks of my own, but I need to know whether it's possible to achieve what I want.
On the website in question I've created an override for tags which mimic Joomla's category blog view. It works, but I suspect that my code is actually very sub-optimal because my understanding of Joomla components is rather weak.
The image and summary text are both stored in custom fields and in order to get them I have to insert a query of the articles and fields tables into the template file. I also have a similar override for the category blog, but in that case it's easier because you can get the values of the custom fields without having to query the database.