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Fixing Tree Editing Bugs When pagetitle Contains Quotes

Why quoted page titles can break resource editing in the document tree and what to audit in the manager-side escaping logic.

Quoted page titles should not make a resource impossible to edit, move, or manage from the tree. When they do, the real bug is almost always in the manager’s escaping and tree-rendering logic.

This kind of issue typically appears after an update that changes how tree data is serialized or injected into the interface. The content is valid, but the manager-side representation of that content is not escaped correctly anymore.

What this usually affects

  • clicking the resource in the tree,
  • moving or duplicating the node,
  • context-menu actions tied to the same serialized tree record.

The right fix is not to ban quotation marks from titles. It is to restore safe escaping in the tree payload so perfectly normal content stops breaking manager behavior.

Whenever a resource title can break the tree UI, the bug belongs to the manager, not to the editor.

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Planning Evolution CMS Catalogs for 10,000–20,000 Products

How to think about large-product-count architecture in Evolution CMS before the catalog outgrows ad hoc TVs, snippets, and one-server assumptions.

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Fixing TinyMCE When It Starts Inserting 4p> Instead of Paragraph Tags

How to reason about strange TinyMCE output corruption when paragraph tags are replaced with broken markup fragments.