19 Years Later: The Undocumented Optimizely Category Inheritance That Caught Me Out

While working on an Optimizely CMS 12 project, I encountered an unexpected issue where categories assigned to a parent page were automatically inherited by newly created child pages. After ruling out custom code and digging through documentation, I discovered this behaviour is actually an undocumented feature that has existed for years. In this post, I walk through the debugging process and share a simple initialization module workaround to prevent category inheritance.

While working on an Optimizely CMS 12 project, I encountered an unexpected issue where categories assigned to a parent page were automatically inherited by newly created child pages. After ruling out ...