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## Known issues on the platform

The following is a list of issues that the Harvard Web Publishing team is aware of and working toward addressing in an upcoming platform release. The issues are not listed in any particular order.

We will regularly update the **Known issues** list as new issues arise and move resolved issues to the **Recently resolved issues** list at the bottom of this page.

**Last updated: June 17, 2026**

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### Current known issues

SortCategoryDescriptionLogin

If you cannot log in to edit your site with HarvardKey, the email on your Drupal account may not match your HarvardKey email. You can ask another Site Administrator on your site to update your Drupal user account email (see [Managing users](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/managing-users)), or contact <ithelp@harvard.edu> for help.

Button-style cards

Button style cards components may display layout inconsistencies at certain tablet-sized screen widths.

Listing page

Filters are not respected when searching within results on listing pages.

Listing page

Filter counts for pre-filtered listing pages may be inaccurate because they show total tag usage across the site rather than the number of items in the current filtered view.

List components

Standard pager not working correctly in some context. Use the "Show more" pager instead, which is the preferred option. 

Embeds

Wrapping video / embedded media causes embed to fail to render.

Taxonomy

Ampersand showing up as code for taxonomy page titles

Vertical cards

The card heading level option in the vertical cards component settings is broken. 

Tabs component

Tabs components on Resource pages hide the content in the first tab upon first page load.





### Recently resolved issues

SortCategoryDescriptionReleasedEvents

Layout issue in events grid display causing unecessary pipe characters.

[1.0.21](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2026/05/platform-update-1021-and-1022-releases)

Publications

RIS and BibTeX files not importing authors and other fields

[1.0.20](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2026/04/platform-update-1020-release)

Publications

Citations formatting issues / inconsistencies

[1.0.20](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2026/04/platform-update-1020-release)

Login

Improved user invite workflow for sites set to Harvard Community visibility

[1.0.20](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2026/04/platform-update-1020-release)

Tables

Accessibility enhancements to tables

[1.0.19](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2026/04/platform-update-1019-release)

Spacing

Empty space appears on page when body is left empty.

[1.0.18](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2026/04/platform-update-1018-release)

Protected sites

URLs linking to pages on HarvardKey-protected sites redirect to the home page initially when user is not logged in. Reach out to <ithelp@harvard.edu> for a temporary workaround for your site.

[1.0.17](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2026/03/platform-update-1017-release)

Listing page

Issues with blank or not updating listing pages

[1.0.17](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2026/03/platform-update-1017-release)

Link styling

External URL heading links displaying with double underline

[1.0.16](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2026/03/platform-update-1016-release)

Events

Issues with recurring events formatting and errors thrown when setting custom event reocurrences.

[1.0.14](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2026/02/platform-update-1014-release)

Publications

Citations formatting issues / inconsistencies

[1.0.14](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2026/02/platform-update-1014-release)

Menus

Issue where main menu sometimes does not show dropdowns outside of its section.

[1.0.13](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2026/01/platform-update-1013-release)

Site logo

Header site logo image alt text not rendering at certain screen sizes when field left blank.

[1.0.13](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2026/01/platform-update-1013-release)

Hero

Page edit preview for hero component appears oversized and overflows.

[1.0.13](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2026/01/platform-update-1013-release)

Image collage component

Image caption expands past width of image.

[1.0.13](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2026/01/platform-update-1013-release)

Search

Site search not functioning properly on Android mobile devices in certain browsers.

[1.0.12](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/12/platform-update-1012-release)

Pages

Site administrators are temporarily unable to delete pages, while HWP is researching how to prevent accidental deletion of critical pages.

[1.0.12](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/12/platform-update-1012-release)

Files

File attachments on pages not rendering for public site viewers. As a workaround, [use the resource content type](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/linking-file) instead of file attachments to link to files.

[1.0.12](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/12/platform-update-1012-release)

Images

Cropping aspect ratios showing up in incorrect context in hero component

[1.0.12](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/12/platform-update-1012-release)

Site visibility

Remove false alert that tells site administrators to clear the site's cache when changing site visibility

[1.0.12](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/12/platform-update-1012-release)

Events

Issues with multi-day and recurring events start and end times display

[1.0.11](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/11/platform-update-1011-release)

Design

Extra spacing when there is no heading in a call to action component

[1.0.10](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/10/platform-update-1010-release)

Nested components

Duplicating then editing components with nested components before saving causes error on the page edit screen.

[1.0.10](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/10/platform-update-1010-release)

CTA links

Editing or deleting call-to-action links on the CTA components throws error on a subset of sites.

[1.0.8](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/09/platform-update-108-release)

Listing page

When viewing listing pages in the grid view, the pager stops before showing the full list of content

[1.0.8](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/09/platform-update-108-release)

Publications

Publications export feature not working

[1.0.8](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/09/platform-update-108-release)

Admin interface

Unable to select page using autocomplete if more than 10 matches

[1.0.8](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/09/platform-update-108-release)

People

Sorting for people lists is not correct if people have lowercase or accented characters

[1.0.6](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/08/platform-update-106-release)

Accessibility

Images added with WYSIWYG text editor cannot be marked as decorative

[1.0.2](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/06/platform-update-102-release)

Taxonomy

Taxonomy pages only showing 10 items with no pagination

[1.0.1](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/05/platform-update-101-release)

Publications

No way to edit the crop of a publication image

[1.0.1](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/05/platform-update-101-release)

Images

Text does not wrap correctly around images in WYSIWYG editor using Original/Full Width size option

[1.0](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/05/platform-update-10-release)

Images

Images cannot be linked in WYSIWYG text editor

[1.0](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/05/platform-update-10-release)

User access

Person invite settings screen no longer available to site administrators.

[1.0](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/05/platform-update-10-release)

Menus

"Show in main navigation" and "Show in section navigation" checkboxes do not stick when saving in the Main navigation menu edit screen.

[1.0](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/05/platform-update-10-release)

Taxonomy

Listing page preview screen not respecting page type filter

[1.0](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/05/platform-update-10-release)

Publications

Allow publications list to be placed in Tabs component

[1.0](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/05/platform-update-10-release)

Design

Add padding between 50/50 cards in the same component, for consistency

[0.9.29](/node/1736)

Images

Error created on page when add an alt text override without an image in the thumbnail field

[0.9.28](/node/1736)

Publications

PDF link icon on publication lists is not distinguishable from other links

[0.9.27](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/03/platform-update-0927-release)

Images

HTML code in image captions with formatting

[0.9.27](/node/1716)

Files

Linking to file resources in the WYSIWYG editor directs to the detail page instead of directly to the PDF

[0.9.27](/node/1716)

People

Updating or creating a new person profile adds "_none" at the end of the name, if no suffix is added

[0.9.26](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/03/platform-update-0926-release)

Publications

Custom taxonomy vocabularies for publications not showing in listing page edit screen

[0.9.25](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/03/platform-update-0924-and-0925-releases)

Publications

Citation title on reference detail page should not be a link

[0.9.25](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/03/platform-update-0924-and-0925-releases)

Design

In tabs component, tabs wrap on top instead of under other tabs

[0.9.23](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/02/platform-update-0923-release)

Images

Restoring captions in WYSIWYG editor for migrated sites. Repair script can be run on a site-by-site basis

[0.9.25](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/03/platform-update-0924-and-0925-releases)

Taxonomy

Default news categories taxonomy vocabulary is not properly aligned, and "do not display" setting does not work

[0.9.22](/node/1646)

Search

Favicon does not display in Google Search results

[0.9.23](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/02/platform-update-0923-release)

People

People profiles do not display website url when no headshot

[0.9.23](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/02/platform-update-0923-release)

Lists

Sticky at top of lists feature not available to site administrators

[0.9.23](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2025/02/platform-update-0923-release)

Resources

Resource content type download file setting ignored for non-authenticated users

[0.9.19](https://drupal.harvardsites.harvard.edu/news/2024/12/platform-update-0919-release)