In this blog, I will describe about a Sitecore bug in version 10.1.1 where developers face issues if they try to use out-of-box placeholder items and especially when they try to move them from their default location. Problem We are working on upgrading from Sitecore 8.2 to Sitecore 10.1.1. We are making use of content placeholder present in Sitecore placeholder settings out of the box. We are updating our solution to follow Helix conventions and decided to move the content placeholder to Project folder. But we encountered a weird issue in moving the 'content' placeholder to any Helix layer. To our surprise, it wont move after numerous attempts. We tried dragging the content placeholder item but that didnt work. Then we tried copying it using right click but that too didnt work. We tried updating its location in ymls related to it and then pushed the item but no success was achieved. Solution We created a Sitecore support ticket to understand this behavior Sitecore support team
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