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While exploring Xperience by Kentico's digital commerce features, Liam Goldfinch decided to use an AI agent (ChatGPT and Claude Code) to generate a feature spec (and the code) for a Stripe payment method integration. The results? Well, you'll just have to read for yourself!
Kentico partner agency Webcoda's Sasha Shevelev shares his experiences at Kentico Partner Connection 2025 in Sydney, Australia, including Kentico's focus on the APAC region, Xperience by Kentico's AIRA, and SaaS offering.
Victor from Simple [A] saw an opportunity to improve SEO metadata management and delivery in Xperience by Kentico and developed an open source integration for his agency and others to use. It's flexible, simple to configure, and already design for AI search. Read his blog post to learn about this tool.
Liam Goldfinch wanted to improve the UX of his open-source Xperience by Kentico integration - Xperience Community: Sustainability, but was unsure how to use Xperience's administration React components. Thankfully, he knew how to leverage Claude Code to discover all the APIs and generate an improved UI and shared his experiences to inspire others.
Ben Quinlan begins his post with the statement that some vendors add features to their product so they can tick an "AI" box on comparison spreadsheets. "They're not built to solve actual marketing problems." He explains how AIRA is different in Xperience by Kentico and what it does to help marketers with the work that actually matters to them.
What's the purpose of a website? Should a marketing use it primarily as a content publishing tool or a revenue generation tool? It's likely that a software platform runs your website and other customer experiences. Is that platform only a CMS that just focuses on web page content management? Lukasz Skowroński shares why a comparison between Xperience by Kentico and Umbraco should be answering these questions instead of just looking at a feature checklist.
In the ever-growing series of posts about Xperience by Kentico headless channels, Milan Lund gets to the heart of the technical details using Next.js and GraphQL to query a headless channel's API to render a hero banner just like the one we're familiar with in the Dancing Goat sample project. Don't miss out on this post as it walks you through the tech, step-by-step.
Liam Goldfinch kept end-to-end testing of his personal website on his “I’ll get to it eventually” list, but never quite found the opportunity to take on the challenge. But, now with the support of an AI agent and GitHub workflows he was able to experiment and deliver this feature in a single evening. He describes the steps he went through to orchestrate the agent, the impact this feature has, and even shared the PR so anyone can review the work.
Did you know you can localize Xperience by Kentico's entire administration user interface into any language, including custom built UI extensions? Milan shares the what, how, and why this localization feature is important to marketers in his blog post.
Why spend the time shopping for and purchasing a small piece of line-of-business software when you can rapidly build an internal AI-driven reporting stack (GitHub Copilot + Cursor + org data). Alex, Kentico's AI enablement advocate, iteratively described outcome-focused prompts to an AI agent, letting it generate ~95% of an the app. Read his prompting and context management tips to prepare yourself and quickly build your own software with an AI agent.
Upgrading to Xperience by Kentico isn't _only_ a technical plan and process - it's also an opportunity to transform a marketing team's workflow with features like AIRA, Xperience's AI assistant. Nikhila clearly explains how AIRA helps marketers even with a multistep, phased upgrade.
Everyone's discussing context engineering. It's a newly coined term, right? Maybe, but Sean Wright argues it's an ancient idea. We're all context engineers already! Marketers and other professionals have been context engineering in their workplaces for a long time.
What's the value of upgrading to Xperience by Kentico? What's planned on its public roadmap? How does it compare to Kentico Xperience 13? What does an Xperience by Kentico upgrade even look like? Ben Quinlan answers all these questions and more in this detailed blog post.
Kentico's AI enablement advocate explains the trends he has seen with teams adoption AI technology, especially software development teams. He also shares some helpful tips and cautions against things that are easy to miss when moving quickly - like beware of the hype and one AI approach does not fit all scenarios.
Nikhila, a seasoned Kentico developer, has been exploring AI technology as part of her software development experience, taking inspiration from what she's seen in the Kentico community. She shares her early insights and asks for others to do the same.
Pure headless, composable CMS solutions might be a consideration for your digital marketing team, but if you are not operating at enterprise scale, have limited internal resources or budgets, or are still at a lower stage of digital maturity you should probably consider digital channel and martech consolidation, according to Roel Kuik, MarTech practice lead at Aviva Solutions...
Are you adopting Xperience by Kentico but confused about the differences between Kentico's older Content Staging technology and Xperience by Kentico's new Content Sync? Brian McKeiver sheds light on the topic with a clear comparison and best-practices tips for users.
You might have missed it, but Kentico recently released several improvements for digital asset management. Danny Paul van Iersel nicely frames these updates and describes one you might have overlooked.
In this blog post, Derek Barka shares his thoughts on Xperience by Kentico SaaS as a well-documented, intuitive, fully managed DXP - including seamless deployment via the Xperience Portal, built-in environment management, and automated backups - enabling teams to offload infrastructure complexity while retaining CI/CD integration.
What value does Xperience by Kentico's AI assistant, AIRA, have for marketers? Joe Peschardt introduces AIRA as a feature of Xperience and covers the spectrum of capabilities with real world examples of how marketers can use AIRA to optimize their workflows.
In this short interview, Dmitry Bastron shares his path to becoming a Kentico MVP, what MVPs actually do, why the barrier to Kentico's community programs might be lower than you think, and tips for future hopeful MVP candidates.
Mike gives a few insights on how he's experiencing the changes of AI and adopting it into his digital agency's workflows.
Pausing to look back at Kentico's product management journey from a difficult to manage user feedback forum to a vision-directed public roadmap showcases a change in strategy and execution that benefits partners agencies and customers. It has prepared Xperience by Kentico to quickly adapt to changes in technology (like AI) and customer expectations.
Milan Lund digs down into the details of Next.js, building up a stack of technologies including TypeScript, GraphQL, and Apollo Client to create an application that consumes content from Xperience by Kentico's headless channels. This post even comes with an example project on GitHub.
Nikhila Pocha shares her experience learning Kentico, discovering the certification program, and the training materials. Among the many things that helped her master Xperience by Kentico - "Daily practice with real projects".
Some Kentico Xperience 13 projects split their marketing data into a separate database for scalability. However, Xperience by Kentico requires a single database as of August 2025. How can you upgrade from 13 to Xperience by Kentico with a split database? Brenden Kehren explains it all in his blog post.
Kentico's VP of Product, Debbie Tucek, details the value of public product roadmaps for partners and customers in the B2B2C world, why Kentico executes successfully on managing theirs, and why AI and rapid iteration cycles create an opportunity for evolution.
What happens when strategists and developers both tap into the power of AI? In this episode of Digital Dexterity, Wes McChristian and Andy Thompson, CTO at Luminary, explore real-world examples, practical tips, and what’s next as AI becomes a core collaborator in digital strategy and development.
Kentico MVP Liam Goldfinch did the community a great service by open sourcing the Xperience by Kentico application that runs his blog, and he used AI to help him prep the repository for public use. Read about his motivations and the planning that went into it.
Is AI still worth using for software developers at a premium monthly subscription rate? Kentico Community Leader Milan Lund says "Yes!", shares his experience paying for Cursor, and explains why developers need to adjust their perspective on the cost and benefit analysis of AI software development tools.
Sean Wright reflects on his experiences at the Boye & Co. hosted CMS Connect 25 event in Montreal, CA. Many attendees discussed familiar CMS topics which were being disrupted by AI. So what's the answer? Maybe asking more questions is the best answer we have today.
Have you ever thought about using taxonomies in Xperience to make it easier for marketers to find content suited for different audience segmentations and personalization in Page Builder widgets? This post details that exact use case and the power and flexibility of taxonomies compared to categories and tags in previous versions of Kentico.
Marketers need products that help them with content management, but content management alone doesn't help them capitalize on customer interest or engagement - they also need standard digital marketing tools and a multichannel strategy! Roel Kuik explains how and why you should fit tools to the team and their goals.
Can marketers truly achieve their goals with just a CMS? Maybe, if their goal is managing content. Roel Kuik thinks they need more to increase leads and conversions they need the digital marketing tools that come with a DXP, like Xperience by Kentico.
Ben Quinlan wanted a simple way to export data from Xperience by Kentico, making it easier to integrate with external systems or support custom reporting needs, so he created an open-source integration - XperienceCommunity.Exports.
July 2025's Refresh poll results started some interesting discussions over on LinkedIn. Web page content sync support was the clear winner but other features were also top of mind.
Kentico community member, Victor Hugo Garcia Hernandez wanted to improve the UX for his marketing clients using Xperience by Kentico's Content hub by increasing the default page size due to the large number of content items they manage. Impossible task? Not at all! Victor explained his scenario and shared the 11 lines of code to accomplish this customization.
Kentico community member, Nikhila Pocha, shares her comparison of Xperience by Kentico's Algolia and Lucene.NET search integrations, which one fits each project requirements, and why her client went with the Algolia solution.
Josh Hess, from Heartland Business Systems, shared a developer and client success story with Xperience by Kentico. By using structured content in the Content hub combined with a Froala rich text plugin he was able to create a scalable, governable, and cost conscious solution for his client's marketing team.
Liam Goldfinch breaks down the evolution of commerce features in DXPs over the past 15 years, explaining how we arrived where we are today with the release of digital commerce in Xperience by Kentico. He reviews the costs and benefits of different commerce solution architectures and which digital marketing goals they align with.
Ever wish you could extract structured information from unstructured data, like content describing a person in a rich text field? Milan Lund covers the steps he is using in an upgrade to Xperience by Kentico project to do exactly this, with a helping hand from Google's Gemini AI LLM and the open-source Kentico Migration Tool.
As the AI industry evolves and tooling and scaffolding improve, the “How can I make myself (or a team) more productive?” mental model may no longer be the best fit. Maybe it's time to move on to something new.
Kentico community member, Nikhila Reddy Pocha, shares some insights about why content and data management techniques from the past might not be the right approach with Xperience by Kentico and how the Content hub is the solution teams should be considering.
Microsoft Regional Director, Lino Tadros, helps users get started with Xperience by Kentico through two step-by-step tutorial videos featuring setting up a new Kentico client portal account to access a trial license key, using the Dancing Goat project template to create a new ASP.NET Core Xperience application, and scaffolding an empty project so you can start building your solution.
Xperience by Kentico has a powerful cache management system available to developers so they can build fast and responsive customer experiences. But, it doesn't have a native way to view or manage the cache visually within the Xperience administration UI. Kentico community member Victor Hugo Garcia, from Kentico partner Simple [A], solved that challenge with an open source integration - Cache Manager. In this blog post he explains why he built it and how it works.
Kentico Community Leader, Milan Lund, continues his blog series focusing on Xperience's headless channels and the technology that drives them - GraphQL. This post walks a developer through the concept of what GraphQL brings to content delivery, how to set up content querying for a headless channel, and an example real-world querying with the Dancing Goat sample project.
Kentico MVP, Andy Thompson, shares some compelling reasons why it's the perfect time for Kentico customers to upgrade to Xperience by Kentico. He gives a helpful line-by-line comparison between Kentico Xperience 13 and Xperience by Kentico and gives customers clarity about the December 31, 2026 "end of life" for Kentico Xperience 13.
Kentico Community Leader, Milan Lund, shared a lesson he learned using AI to build Xperience by Kentico when customizing the Xperience administration UI. His takeaway? AI can sometimes make us "dumber" — and it’s crucial to keep a balance. We should drive the AI, not the other way around.
Kentico Community Leader, Milan Lund, is no stranger to Xperience by Kentico projects. So his opinion on the new content retriever API means something! He found it to be a really helpful abstraction over Xperience's low-level content querying. He shares some common use cases for the content retriever and is looking for other developers to share their experiences with it.
Kentico community member, Dragoljub Ilic, recently created an open source UI form component that helps marketers managed structured table data in widget component properties through a simple visual interface. It's a really creative solution to common challenge that's usually solved with rich text and HTML tables!
Chris Bryce, CEO of Dotfusion Digital, is joined by Sean Wright from Kentico in this short discussion about the current CMS landscape, headless content delivery, ROI and time-to-value of digital experience platforms, SaaS, search solutions, and all from the perspective of Xperience by Kentico.
In episode 3 of Beyond the Build, Justin Sanders and Calvin Chopp from BlueModus explore how design-led innovation goes way beyond aesthetics—shaping strategy, informing development choices, and ultimately leading to better outcomes for users and businesses alike.
In part 2 of this series covering headless channels, Kentico Community Leader Milan Lund guides readers with a very clear walkthrough of headless channels and content types.
Inspired by the Umbraco community, Liam Goldfinch created an Xperience by Kentico integration to report the sustainability impact for website pages. In this post he explains how he got started working on it and how the library works.
Danny Paul walks marketers through the simple steps to set up content personalization in an Xperience by Kentico website, covering all the various options for customer segmentation, GDPR compliance, and using custom visitor data.
Kentico Community Leader, Danny Paul van Iersel, explains the concept of a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack and why it's important to have the right infrastructure to protect your digital experiences from them.
Lukasz Skowroński from Konabos introduces enhancements to the XbK on Docker project, enabling developers to easily switch between multiple Xperience by Kentico versions for local development, and streamline their development workflow for multiple Xperience by Kentico applications across various versions.
Are you familiar with Kentico Xperience 13 but new to Xperience by Kentico? Longtime Kentico MVP Brian McKeiver breaks the operational and technical details of both products to help you understand the key ways Xperience by Kentico is different from (and better than) Kentico Xperience 13.
Part 3 of Liam Goldfinch's series on migrating his project to Xperience by Kentico SaaS covers the lessons he learned both from a developer perspective and a project planning one.
In part 2 of Kentico MVP Liam Goldfinch's exploration of Xperience by Kentico SaaS Liam explains the benefits of automating deployments in Azure DevOps and how he configured his application for deployment to Kentico's SaaS environment.
Derek Barka, Kentico MVP from SilverTech, shares some insights from his years working in the CMS and DXP space, and argues that a DXP isn't a single product - it's always "a technology solution set made up from some of the 14,000+ MarTech solutions out there on the MartechMap".
Kentico MVP Liam Goldfinch shares his experience migrating an existing Xperience by Kentico project to Xperience by Kentico SaaS. He includes project configuration changes, screenshots from the Xperience Portal, and his deployment process.
We often have a lot of options available to us when upgrading or migrating to a new platform. In this post, Lukasz asks us to consider our content strategy and which tools we can or should adopt when migrating to Xperience by Kentico. An increase of complexity during the data migration can make things simpler later on, but nothing comes for free.
Have you tried using Xperience by Kentico's headless channels? Are you wondering what they're capable of or how they can be combined with non-.NET frameworks? Milan Lund shares his first steps using a headless channel with Next.js by explaining both technology concepts in this post.
If you still need convincing that Xperience by Kentico is extremely easy to adopt for software developers look no further than this blog post by Kentico Community Leader Mike Rahel. It's as easy as 1-2-3.
ASP.NET Core's data protection APIs (DPAPI) are part of the framework's security foundation. Kentico MVP Liam Goldfinch explains the details of this API and shows how you can customize its use for scaled-out Xperience by Kentico applications for a consistent authentication experience.
Join Sean Wright and Łukasz Skowroński, Kentico MVP from Konabos on April 9th to learn about the advantages of an upgrade to Xperience by Kentico, like its public product roadmap and new multichannel digital marketing capabilities.
On this episode of Digital Dexterity Kentico MVP Wes McChristian chats with Josh Cossiboon, Kentico technical lead at AmericanEagle.com, about Kentico's plan and support for upgrading customers to Xperience by Kentico and customers switching from other platforms with a full suite tools in the Xperience by Kentico Migration Toolkit.
We encourage our community to share their thoughts about Xperience by Kentico and give us feedback on our public product roadmap. Kentico MVP Dmitry Bastron turned this idea into a full blog post! His idea? Add a "smart paste" feature to bridge the gap between the tools marketers use to being content authoring and Xperience by Kentico.
The answer is obvious! Yes! Always include a big loud CTA that's in your customer's face... right? Kentico's corporate marketer, Ondřej Líbal, questions this conventional wisdom with some wisdom of his own and reminds you to think about which phase of engagement your customer is in.
Kentico Community Leader, Milan Lund, shows how to use fully customizable autoresponders for visitor form submissions in this detailed step-by-step guide.
In this webinar, Kentico MVP Mike Wills discusses why SGE (Search Generative Experience) and AI are critical considerations for every modern website.
Kentico Community Leader, Milan Lund, shared his 12 keys steps to success when rebuilding a website with Xperience by Kentico. This post is the capstone of Milan's journey upgrading a Kentico 11 project to Xperience by Kentico as a freelance web developer.
Why use Docker and containerization for application development? Did you enjoy Lukasz's blog post about Xperience and Docker but want to go deeper into the tech? If so, watch Kentico MVP Łukasz Skowroński explain it all in this LinkedIn webinar from Kentico partner Konabos.
Kentico MVP Lukasz Skowroński uses the Xperience by Kentico sample Dancing Goat project to try his hand at quickly containerizing the ASP.NET Core application in this blog post.
Kentico Community Leader, Milan Lund, shares a clever trick to ensure LCP (largest contentful paint) doesn't impact your website's core web vitals scores and SEO when using Xperience by Kentico's Page Builder. Follow Milan on LinkedIn for more great Xperience tips like these.
Petr Lebeda, from Kentico gold partner Bluesoft, explains Xperience by Kentico's licensing for channels and product tiers. He makes sure readers understand the differences between Standard and Advanced tiers and the value of consolidating digital channels into Xperience with microchannels.
Sharing the perspective he gained from CMS 2025 Kickoff, Kentico MVP Derek Barka explains why Xperience by Kentico's Content hub brings the benefits of a headless CMS to Xperience.
If you're unsure what digital marketing problem is solved by Xperience by Kentico's recently released Workspaces feature, be sure to read Derek Barka's post on the topic and his wishlist for future enhancements to Workspaces.
Kentico MVP Lukasz Skowroński writes about Xperience by Kentico's Page Builder, diving straight into the architecture details any Xperience by Kentico developer will be interested in. But, he also shares some guidance that will improve the Page Builder experience for marketers - like how to guarantee the Page Builder layout and design of a page looks the same as it will for visitors.
Kentico MVP Trevor Fayas wants feedback from the Kentico community regarding documentation and educational resources for the Xperience by Kentico Baseline project he's been working on. Head over to LinkedIn and share your thoughts with Trevor!
Are you responsible for a migration from another platform or upgrade to Xperience by Kentico? In this video, Kentico MVP and migration expert Dmitry Bastron spent some time with us a Kentico Connection 2024 to outline some best practices to follow and pitfalls to avoid when planning and executing a DXP platform migration to Xperience by Kentico.
Kentico MVP Dmitry Bastron shares tips on how to explore the underlying SQL database structures that power Xperience by Kentico and ends his post with a great quote - "Don't be afraid of making your hands dirty again by writing some SQL queries" 👏.
Long-time Kentico community member, Mike Rahel, attending Kentico Partner Connection 2025 in Miami, FL and shares his experiences on the event. Check it out for thoughts on why Connection felt different this year (in a good way), did Kentico deliver Xperience by Kentico roadmap, and how Kentico supports platform migrations.
Lukasz pulls back the curtain on search indexes with Lucene.NET, the library that Xperience by Kentico's Lucene integration is built on. Luke is a tool used for exploring Lucene indexes and Lukasz walks us through the surprising complexity of running an old version Luke in 2024. Thanks Lukasz!
Another post from Lukasz, but this time focusing on the strategic value of keeping an Xperience by Kentico solution up to date. Lukasz points out that new features, product support, and adopting a continuous and iterative mindset are all important reasons to stay up to date.
Will the AI revolution change everything in the DXP and CMS space? Kentico MVP Liam Goldfinch shares his thoughts on this very topic on LinkedIn. Liam believes Kentico is well positioned to benefit from AI but some things will likely stay the same...
Joe Peschardt, from Kentico gold partner Devotion, attended Kentico Partner Connection 2025 in Miami and then Kentico's Partner Day event in his home country of Australia - wow 😲. He took notes on key topics for both events and shared them in this blog post.
Joe Peschardt, from Kentico gold partner Devotion, authored an easy to understand list of 8 reason why Kentico's SaaS offering for Xperience by Kentico makes a real different for his clients compared to traditional private cloud (self-managed) hosting and deployments.
If you are planning to migrate a website to Xperience by Kentico as part of a new project or consolidation of other products into a single solution you should add Kentico MVP Dmitry Bastron's post to the top of your list. Dmitry takes a high level, strategic perspective on the topic making it valuable for all audiences. Having worked on Kentico's Sitecore Migration Tool he definitely knows what he's talking about.
Longtime Kentico community member, Mike Rahel, shares his troubleshooting process for a problem he encountered with an Xperience by Kentico solution running in SaaS. I love these kinds of blog posts - they normalize problem solving, contacting support, and the dreaded "it works on my machine" scenario we've all been in countless times.
Kentico MVP Michael Eustace published a video on YouTube to guide us through Xperience's continuous deployment feature - use cases, configuration, and a real-world look at a deployment pipeline with some PowerShell thrown in for good measure!
Danny Paul from Kentico partner Blastic goes deep on a solution to wildcard pages in Xperience by Kentico. He covers different approaches to solving for wildcard pages and the tradeoffs for each.
Manthan Jangid, from Kentico partner DotStark, recently became an Xperience by Kentico certified developer and decided to share his path to success with everyone else. He covers what topics he made sure to review and how he prepared himself when he was ready to finally take the exam. Great tips, Manthan!
Milan maintains his reputation as a prolific Kentico community member with another blog post. This time he covers how to make sure your custom JavaScript for a Page Builder Widget works in all the various rendering modes of the Page Builder. This is a great technical deep dive with example code.
Kentico MVP, Brian McKeiver, provides an overview of Kentico's reimagined platform, emphasizing its modern architecture built on .NET 8/9 and ASP.NET Core. He discusses how this modernization addresses previous technological limitations and highlights the platform's capabilities in supporting multichannel experiences and serving as a hybrid headless CMS.
Kentico MVP, Elmar Höfinghoff, walks us through using Xperience by Kentico Page Builder page templates in this detailed guide. He covers both the _why_ and the _how_ and shows how a scenario for marketer-configurable page template properties.
Active Kentico community member, Ben Quinlan, saw an opportunity to improve Xperience by Kentico with an open-source integration that enhances the functionality of forms with internal notifications for marketers. Check it out - you'll probably learn something!
Xperience by Kentico enthusiast, Danny Paul van Iersel, shows how to create a members-only area of a website channel using Xperience's "requires authentication" content configuration feature and ASP.NET Core's built-in identity management capabilities.
Although Xperience by Kentico's SaaS offering is developing as quickly as the product itself, there's still areas where creative solutions can help unblock teams. Lukasz Skowronski shares how teams can move content from a production environment back to QA (or even local) to improve the fidelity of testing new features in pre-production environments.
In his recap of Kentico Connection Miami 2024, Brian McKeiver highlights key insights from nearly 100 partners, product managers, and executives discussing the future of Xperience by Kentico. Notable takeaways include CEO Dominik Pinter’s vision for consolidating marketing tools and VP of Product Debbie Tucek’s focus on a multichannel-first approach to customer engagement.
Lukasz Skowroński, from Kentico partner Konabos, shows off his solutions architecture skills by covering the complex topic of Xperience by Kentico's serialization based CI/CD features, how they work, and how they help teams collaborate and deliver updates to Xperience solutions.
Parker Ovadek, from Kentico Gold partner BizStream, walks developers through the step-by-step process of adding Azure AI Search into Xperience by Kentico using Kentico's 1st party integration library. This tutorial includes everything you'd want to get started - screenshots and code!
Pawel Nienartowicz, CEO of Kentico partner ADHDEV, shares a thorough overview of Kentico's recent Connection event in Prague. Read Pawel's take on the themes of the event, key takeaways from the sessions, and enjoyment of the networking event and roundtable discussions.
Kentico MVP and CTO of Kentico Gold partner Luminary, Andy Thompson, gets straight to the point and asks the hot button question - is Xperience by Kentico ready? Andy makes it look easy and organizes his answer based on the needs of the customer in this evergreen blog post. Keep it bookmarked and check it out as Xperience by Kentico's capabilities grow with each Refresh.
Kentico community member, Milan Lund, shares a ton of great information about his experiences deploying to Xperience by Kentico's SaaS environment. There's a couple of moving pieces to be aware of like the difference between Xperience by Kentico and the Xperience Portal. Make sure you read Milan's post!
Ben Quinlan, Director and Solution Architect from Kentico Gold partner Zeroseven has given the Kentico community two great contributions - an open-source integration to add content type restrictions to website channels and a blog post describing the what _and_ why of this integration. Awesome stuff!
Wes McChristian, Kentico MVP from Kentico Gold partner Americaneagle.com, recently interviewed Kentico's Lead Product Evangelist Sean Wright about Kentico's roadmap for Xperience by Kentico, the growth the Kentico community, and what the latest product features enable for customers and partners.
What was it like to attend Kentico Connection in Prague this year? Let's ask Roel Kuik, Kentico MVP from Kentico Gold partner Aviva Solutions. Roel discusses all the sessions, evening social events, and roundtable discussions, sharing his thoughts and the value the event had for him as a Kentico partner.
Kentico MVP Jeroen Fürst has 10 tips for all the Kentico developers interested in migrating their Kentico Xperience 13 projects to Xperience by Kentico. What are they? Well, you'll have to read his blog post to find out!
Kentio's SaaS offering for Xperience by Kentico handles the responsibility of infrastructure and deployment management for developers, using established technologies in Azure like App Service and deployment slots. Milan Lund explains the details on how this technology impacts Lucene search indexes and his solution to post-deployment index rebuilding.
Xperience by Kentico's Settings application is not open to customization for developers, so where can they store custom configuration and settings for each channel in their solution? Dragoljub Ilic gives a detailed explanation of the challenge and his solution using Xperience's administration customization.
Xperience by Kentico's Page Extenders are a quick way to adjust the functionality of existing pages in the administration UI. Kentico MVP Michael Eustace shows just how easy they make it to add some helpful information to Xperience for marketers or developers with his new NuGet package.
Dragoljub Ilic, software developer from Kentico partner Exlrt, reflects on what it was like to ship a Kentico Site of the Month winning Xperience by Kentico project to production. To quote Dragoljub, "it’s not the Kentico we knew. It’s a completely new Xperience, and it’s truly impressive!"
Kentico MVP Liam Goldfinch has been busy over the past several months with a series of blog posts about Xperience by Kentico open-source integrations. In this post he covers a new topic - Xperience's powerful administration customization experience using Page Extenders - and shows developers a simple example to get them started.
Xperience by Kentico's page tree-based URL routing keeps things simple for marketers building a new website. But, it also enables custom routing to give developers full control when needed. How does it work? Tyler Stirtz, from Kentico Gold partner BizStream, shows us with a real world scenario - 404 and error pages.
Milan Sustek, CTO for Kentico Gold partner Bluesoft, wrote a blog post to let developers know it's easy to manage background processes in Xperience by Kentico using Hangfire, a popular open-source background task management library for .NET. Just follow Milan's guide and you'll be up and running in no time.
Kentico community member, Milan Lund, gives a thoughtful and detailed overview of his approach to migrating content from Kentico 12 Portal Engine to Xperience by Kentico and shares some creative tricks he used in the process. He also mentions the Kentico Migration Tool has been improved in the meantime and is also a viable upgrade solution.
Are you interested in getting an Xperience by Kentico project setup for continuous deployment? Lukasz Skowroński, senior solutions architect at Konabos, authored a helpful walkthrough of the setup process for the Xperience project, Azure DevOps, and the Xperience Portal.
Lukasz has been busy the past few weeks! His second blog post on Xperience by Kentico explains the topic of content modeling and options developers have to get content into Xperience's Page Builder for a marketer. He covers examples of media assets, web pages, and reusable structured content.
One of the most important new features for developers using Xperience by Kentico is the robust set of APIs used to retrieve content from the database. Christian Stam from BizStream has authored a full review of the different APIs available and how they work together.
Ben Quinlan, solution lead from Kentico Gold partner, sets the stage for anyone interested in upgrading to Xperience by Kentico. He covers the various versions of Kentico that customers might be using today, what upgrade options are available to them, and the benefits of upgrading.
Danny Paul van Iersel, senior software developer team lead at Kentico Silver partner Blastic, shares his experiences preparing for the Kentico developer certification. He explains what the exam taking experience is like and how to set yourself up for success both in knowledge and mindset.
Ben Buurstra, technology operations lead for Kentico Gold partner BizStream, wrote a retrospective of his recent experiences with Xperience by Kentico, calling out aspects of the product that had the largest impact on him. I think Ben's quote sums things up pretty well, "when I say it’s been a pleasure to work with, I really mean it".
The very prolific Kentico MVP, Liam Goldfinch, brings us a double decker of a Kentico community contribution. A new open-source integration adding the "edit" button from older Kentico Portal Engine solutions to Xperience by Kentico and a blog post to introduce it. Thanks Liam!
Did you see we announced the Xperience by Kentico Developer certification is now available? If you're planning on taking the exam be sure to review Liam Goldfinch's simple advice to help you pass.
What are some of the key challenges organizations have right now when adopting AI technology? Kentico's VP of Product, Matej Stefanik, thinks organizations don't have the skills internally to deploy AI tech effectively, but that's not all...
Kentico MVP Liam Goldfinch has authored a new Xperience by Kentico open-source integration - XperienceCommunity.ImageProcessing - to help teams optimize image asset delivery for media stored in Xperience's Content hub. In this short blog post Liam gives some background on the project.
Building on top of Liam Goldfinch's XperienceCommunity.ImageProcessing library, Milan Lund wrote a blog post describing how he contributed to the project to enhance it and then integrated it into his Xperience by Kentico project.
Kentico community member, Milan Lund, helps us understand some of the less discussed topics of the Kentico world. What's up with all the product names, what is a Kentico partner, and how do we upgrade to Xperience by Kentico?
Did you hear about Kentico's new 1st party, fully-supported Shopify commerce integration for Xperience by Kentico? Kentico MVP, Liam Goldfinch, gives us his perspective on its support and a step-by-step guide on getting it integrated into a new Xperience by Kentico project.
Kentico partner agency, ADHD Interactive, shares some insight on the benefit of the Content hub and resusable and composable content in Xperience by Kentico.
Kentico MVP, Liam Goldfinch, educates about the benefits of a Content Security Policy (CSP), shows some technical examples, and finishes things up with a surprise ending... he authored an open-source custom module for managing CSPs in Xperience by Kentico!
Want your Xperience by Kentico solutions to be as fast as possible? Try optimizing your content retrieval from the database! "But how?", you might ask. Kentico MVP, Michael Eustace, has authored a helpful guide on how to easily integrate MiniProfiler into Xperience by Kentico to help you do just that.
Kentico community member and Xperience by Kentico enthusiast Milan Lund prefers to build Xperience by Kentico solutions on his Apple Macbook using VS Code. If that sounds interesting to you, read his full step-by-step post where he covers everything you need to know!
Kentico MVP, Michael Eustace, gives us a great primer on Xperience by Kentico's Page Selector form component, where it's used, what features it has, and how it compares to selectors from Kentico 12 MVC and Kentico Xperience 13.
Kentico MVP, Elmar Höfinghoff, leverages his seasoned experience with Kentico and takes a deep gaze back in time, reviewing the UI, feature, and strategic changes in Kentico's CMS and DXP products over 20 years. He ends at a new beginning - the future with Xperience by Kentico. (German language, use your browser to translate!)
Kentico MVPs, Liam Goldfinch and Michael Eustace, have launched a new Kentico user group for the UK 🙌. If you're interested in Kentico and live in or around the UK, head over to the group's LinkedIn page and join. Expect community building, knowledge sharing, and announcements about future in-person events.
Kentico MVP, Mike Wills, shared his thoughts on a thread about content modeling and content architecture with CMS and DXP products. He also notes some key values in content architecture that software developers but are key for digital marketers.
Kentico community member, Milan Lund, dives into the technical deep end and explains his preferred way to use the Repository pattern in C# for Xperience by Kentico solutions. If you're exploring techniques for content retrieval in Xperience solutions, definitely give this a read!
Longest running Kentico MVP, Jeroen Fürst, reflects on what being a part of the Kentico community for so many years has meant to him now that Kentico is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Thanks Jeroen!
Kentico MVP, Michael Eustace, lays out 5 resources web developers should know when learning Xperience by Kentico. Are you getting started with Xperience? Go read his list!
Kentico MVP Elmar Höfinghoff explains why Xperience by Kentico's Resuable Field Schemas (RFS) are more flexible than content type "inheritance", some common use cases for RFS, and how to generate C# types to use RFSs in your Xperience code base. (The article is originally in German, but you can use ChatGPT or your browser to translate it for you 😀)
Explore the recent updates to the Kentico Community Portal source code, now running at community.kentico.com. Included are many examples of how you can use Page Extenders to customize the Xperience administration UI for marketers.
This integration enables creating and using localizations or translations in an Xperience by Kentico project. Create translations in Xperience administration UI as a marketer or programmatically as a developer and use them in your website channels.
Check out his post to understand the tradeoffs of flexibility and component design cost in Xperience by Kentico to find the balance that suits your project.
Are traditional and composable DXPs racing to "the middle", adopting each other's features, or is the landscape evolving into something new?
Read a perspective about Content hub folders from the Kentico community.
Brian McKeiver announces the complete re-architecture of his blog using Kentico's next-generation platform, Xperience by Kentico. He shares his positive experiences with the platform's developer and content editing capabilities, highlighting its modern technology stack and improved performance.
Dmitry Bastron walks readers step-by-step through Xperience by Kentico's activity tracking and explores the various options developers can take to log custom activities and include additional customer activity context in that data.