Blog posts by Dom Reilly2026-03-20T14:30:00.0000000Zhttps://world.optimizely.com/blogs/dom-reilly/Optimizely World19 Years Later: The Undocumented Optimizely Category Inheritance That Caught Me OutWhile 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.2026-03-20T14:30:00.0000000ZBlog post