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LoginThe question of content, CMS platform, and governance ownership is already top of mind for most organizations. When you add different messaging and experience needs for each business team, the complexity and decisions grow. Does AI simplify these things, does it commoditize the underlying technology question, or does it make those inter-organizational decisions even more important?
Mike Rahel used his AI agent to brainstorm a new Page Builder widget, identify required content model updates, and implement the widget without typing a single line of code.
If AI can already create copy, designs and even complete websites, what role is left for the CMS? Jeroen argues that role is increasingly about control and trust. How do you make sure AI works with information that is accurate and up to date? Who decides what can be changed or published? And what happens when AI starts taking actions on behalf of users?
Reviewing a content model through the content types in an Xperience by Kentico project can help you understand the decisions a team made in the past. This is useful when you see anti-patterns - like content types modeling presentation concerns - that you plan to improve. Dragoljub shares his experiences in this space.
AI tooling shouldn't stink, but it should be something that just works and doesn't require the user to be an expert in how it functions. Mike explains how his team evolved agentic software development tooling for Xperience projects from "requires expertise" to "anyone can use it" and explains the steps they took.
Jeroen shares his thoughts about how Kentico's new Feedback MCP server helps shorten the feedback loop in agentic software development.
Andres Villenas adds a Clone form action to his open-source Forms Toolkit, letting admins duplicate a form's structure and fields with one click. He deliberately skips copying submissions, automations, and notifications to keep clones predictable using only supported public APIs.
Andres Villenas launches an open-source Forms Toolkit for Xperience by Kentico, starting with submission exports to CSV, Excel, and XML. Advanced options cover date filtering, record limits, sort order, and column selection.
Liam Goldfinch makes the case for skipping the vector database on small sites: if your content fits in one prompt, the model can pick and read relevant posts itself. He breaks down the two-pass RAG approach and guardrails behind his site's Ask feature.
Matthew Sandstrom shares an open-source prompt set that has AI coding agents write one-time migration code to move data between content types in Xperience by Kentico. It is built for projects that outgrew their original content model, and it costs far fewer tokens than having an agent move items one at a time through the Management MCP server.
Dmitry breaks down a practical test for what counts as marketing automation, and where it stops and an AI agent begins. He argues deterministic rules should run high-volume automations while AI earns its place at the edges and makes the case for keeping automation logic inside the platform that owns the contact record. He points to Xperience by Kentico's custom actions in the Automation Builder as a sign of where marketer-owned logic is headed next.
Pawan walks through a real, unpolished deployment of Dancing Goat to AWS: Docker, Terraform, RDS SQL Server, and a GitHub Actions pipeline with an approval gate. He covers the messy parts too - SQL Server version mismatches, an SSM tunnel dead end, and mixing up Xperience CI vs. CD - making it a useful field guide for anyone deploying Xperience to AWS.
This article traces marketing automation's decade-long adoption problem back to the blank-canvas builder, and explains how Xperience by Kentico's rearchitected approach embeds automation into forms, membership, and custom activities instead. Andy Thompson connects this shift to the platform's growing data substrate and argues it's deliberately positioned as the foundation for agentic automation ahead.
A year in, Alex says the hard part isn't AI tooling anymore, it's the org. He tracks the shift from skepticism to demand for more, through survey data and team stories.
Liam Goldfinch put the Management MCP server through a real four-site client build, and the story isn't speed, it's governance. Every AI-driven change through the MCP lands as a reviewable diff in the CI repo, giving technical directors a real basis to sign off on agent-driven CMS work.
Mike Rahel demonstrates Ask Refined Element, a small XbyK knowledge pack delivered to people, crawlers, apps, and agents through web, JSON, GraphQL, and MCP surfaces.
Ben walks through custom actions and triggers in Xperience's Automation Builder. Developers build extensions; marketers configure them without code, unlocking automation tailored to business workflows beyond built-in steps.
Mike Rahel walks through a 36-hour practitioner experiment using Claude Code and KentiCopilot MCPs to audit, bug-fix, visually redesign, and reposition his Refined Element site. The build showcases agent-driven content modeling and the clean division between what agents operate and what stays human.
Mike Rahel demonstrates the underrated power of MCP servers and AI coding agents working together. Rather than manual configuration, pointing an agent at the docs and the right tools lets it independently upgrade dependencies, remove unused packages, and install new MCP servers in moments.
Sean shares how the XperienceCommunity.FormClone extension helps simplify and speed up his marketing responsibilities, creating a variety of forms on the Kentico Community Portal.
Michael Eustace shares his thoughts on why marketing automation custom actions are so valuable and the types of automation scenarios they now make possible in Xperience projects by keeping the marketer experience low-code and giving developers flexibility to solve problems.
Do you ever wish Xperience by Kentico's administration UI had a bit of extra functionality to help your team's day-to-day workflows? Take inspiration from Roel's post about how he has easily created solutions to these scenarios using open-source examples and the KentiCopilot docs MCP server.
Reflecting on his initial experience crafting web pages in Kentico's Page Builder many years ago, Michael identifies how things have changed with AI and Xperience by Kentico's Management MCP. He considers multiple scenarios marketers might encounter in the future and where the value and satisfaction of building digital experiences comes from when AI handles more of the implementation.
In a contribution for Boye & Company, Jeroen Fürst reflects on the Kentico MVP Summit 2026 in Brno, where conversations moved well past AI feature discussions toward the harder question of how organisations learn, coordinate, and execute at scale.
Petr Klouda reviews every Site of the Year 2025 winner and surfaces five qualities the best projects shared, none of them the flashy features people brag about. He argues winners obsessed over architecture as a five-year investment, treated content as the product, designed for real users, and built open ecosystems on strong client-partner trust.
Milan Šůstek breaks down KentiCopilot, Kentico's suite of MCP servers, plugins, and prompts that give AI coding assistants accurate, current context for Xperience by Kentico development. He walks through each component (Documentation, Content Modeling, and Management MCP Servers) and explains how to connect tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code to real project structure and live docs so they stop hallucinating APIs.
Dragoljub highlights how KentiCopilot's marketplace availability and the content-audit skill transform the most tedious part of any upgrade to Xperience by Kentico by helping teams understand what's actually there.
Derek draws a sharp parallel between the PC revolution of the 1990s and today's AI transformation, arguing that most organizations are repeating the same mistake: automating existing work instead of questioning whether that work should exist at all. He believes we need to move beyond the "AI assistant" framing and ask harder questions about what's now possible, not just what's now faster.
Liam Goldfinch walks through how IDHL used AI across content modelling, planning, and implementation during a real Xperience by Kentico site rebuild. The goal wasn't just to write code faster, but to eliminate the translation overhead between delivery stages. The result was a smoother, more predictable process where developers spent time validating rather than starting from scratch.
Ben Quinlan highlights Sean Wright's six-part Kentico community blog series on Xperience by Kentico automations, its practical walkthroughs of progressively complex scenarios built entirely with out-of-the-box features. From an agency perspective, Ben emphasizes the series' value in defining clear ownership boundaries, and showing marketers what they can manage independently and developers where their expertise is actually needed.
Mike Wills shares a striking real-world result: a BlueModus developer used an AI-driven pipeline to migrate ~60 React components into Xperience by Kentico widget implementations in three days, autonomously QA'd against the designer's build. Mike reflects on how moments like this are evolving team instincts around scheduling, budgets, and what's actually possible.
Roel makes a pointed case that proprietary accelerators sold alongside Kentico Xperience 13 upgrades often deliver speed at the cost of long-term control and argues the original justification for these accelerators has eroded now that the Kentico Migration Tool, MCP servers, and KentiCopilot let teams hit the same velocity without the dependency.
Brian Hecimovich argues the AIRA SEO & GEO Specialist matters less as a feature launch and more as a signal. Search and AI discoverability are finally being treated as the same job, in the CMS where content teams already work. He walks through how the analysis runs, the role of keywords, and what the tool deliberately doesn't solve.
Roel reframes the AI-in-DXP conversation around a truth most teams miss: the gap between marketing ambition and reality is usually an infrastructure problem baked into the stack long before AI showed up. He argues the DXP is no longer just a delivery mechanism...
What impact does freelancing or working solo have on the team habits that keep XbK projects healthy, like local-first dev, CI, early QA, predictable updates, and meaningful tests? Milan frames these not as enterprise overhead but as baseline good engineering and especially valuable for developers who usually ship alone.
Patrick shares what his team at Devotion sees across CMS/DXP migration assessments - fragmented stacks, tight timelines, and stretched teams that can't absorb a full headless rebuild. He makes the case for Xperience by Kentico as the pragmatic pick when familiar authoring, in-platform marketing tools, and a managed SaaS model matter more than maximum architectural flexibility.
Debbie Tucek revisits the "context orchestration" thesis she introduced at Boye & Co in 2025, mapping how the market has validated it, from CMS becoming the fastest-growing martech subcategory to the "traffic apocalypse" reshaping discovery. She makes the case that DXPs need to import risk-adaptive governance thinking from cybersecurity, arguing context is the layer that turns AI from commodity into differentiation.
Mike Rahel introduces Kentico Sentinel, a free, MIT-licensed NuGet package that runs scheduled health checks directly inside your Xperience by Kentico application without external agents or telemetry. Mike highlights 13 deterministic rules covering configuration, dependencies, content, and observability, plus a finding acknowledgment system that keeps issues acknowledged across rescans, making it a tool teams will actually keep using.
Sean Wright joined Virgil and Cole on the Discussing Stupid podcast to help marketers understand the difference between AI and AI agents, the importance of knowing your content workflow, and why context determines everything in the age of AI.
Liam Goldfinch rebuilt his personal blog using Claude Design and Claude Code in a single weekend, then reflected on what that unified workflow revealed. His takeaway cuts through the hype: AI accelerates UI generation, but clear design system rules still determine whether the output holds up.
Migrating to Xperience by Kentico isn't just a technical upgrade. It's a shift from passively storing content to having a platform that actively generates, refines, and optimizes it through AI. With AIRA, editors gain an AI assistant that recommends and acts in real time, transforming the CMS from a content warehouse into a collaborative partner.
Xperience by Kentico's new Campaigns feature unifies campaign briefs, assets, and customer journeys in one place. Michael Eustace sees how it ends the fragmentation of pages, emails, and forms living separately. AIRA elevates this further by evaluating campaigns in context, shifting the question from "what happened?" to "why, and what's next?"
CMS migrations often start with simple plans but quickly become complex due to data relationships and edge cases. Using Kentico's Universal Migration Tool (UMT) helps transform external data into structured models, enabling seamless, repeatable migrations that maintain integrity and ease development.
The Xperience Community: Content Repository package centralizes URL resolution, language detection, caching, and null check logic into an easy to use API. That API has been expanded to explicitly support web page content retrieval with a new package version.
Tired of managing project settings through custom tables or scattered config files in your Xperience by Kentico projects? Roel de Bruijn just released a new open-source NuGet package that brings a clean, code-first approach to settings management.
Sean Wright describes a scenario where he had his AI agent investigate a large code base, identify inconsistencies, and prepare the findings in a visual, interactive web page report. We don't have to accept the defaults when working with AI. Request agents to adjust to outputs that work best for you.
Kentico MVP Micahel Eustace shares his thoughts on how fragmented martech limits AI effectiveness and unified platforms like Xperience by Kentico enable the connected customer context that agentic AI needs to deliver real value.
Wes McChristian hosts Sean Wright on the Digital Dexterity podcast to discuss a variety of AI-related questions business and marketing leaders are struggling with today. How do they decide to build vs. buy and does AI change everything? How do teams use AI with purpose? What is the difference between time to market and time to value and why the latter is the new competitive edge?
Kentico's VP of Product reviews the industry analysis on organizations evolving marketing practices due to AI and why 2026 will be the year we really see agentic marketing take shape.
Dragoljub continues his experimentation with Xperience by Kentico's AIRA chat, showing how custom prompts can be routed to 3rd party LLM providers.
Kentico's VP of Engineering, Petr Švihlík, weighs in on software development's current AI transformation and the impact it has on juniors entering the industry. He separates the thoughtful perspective that acknowledges the complexities in the state of transition we see around us from emotional reasoning that tries to find simple answers.
Want to restrict which Reusable Content Types can be used in different Workspaces within Xperience by Kentico's Content Hub? Well now you can, thanks to Liam Goldfinch's new integration. Read his post for details on why he made it and how it works.
AI is making digital creation effortless but as output scales, so do the risks of inconsistency, misinformation, and “cognitive surrender,” where teams trust AI-generated answers without verification. The next phase of digital will reward organizations that pair AI with structured content, governance, and clear ownership to protect brand integrity and drive measurable impact.
Community member Dragoljub Ilic dug deep into Xperience by Kentico's internals and created an experimental plugin system to extend AIRA's conversational capabilities through the underlying Semantic Kernel technology, showcasing creative AI-backed tools for marketers in Xperience.
Mike Rahel explains the differences between SEO and AEO, how it impacts your visibility with AI agents, and some simple tips you can implement in your Xperience by Kentico project with code examples for llms.txt, JSON-LD structured data, headless APIs, and semantic HTML.
This real-world conversation between Nikhila and her client showcases the questions customers have about upgrading from Kentico Xperience 13 to Xperience by Kentico, and how someone knowledgeable about both platforms can provide clear answers, set expectations, and highlight exciting opportunities.
Andrés Villenas used existing technologies - AI agent plugins and open-source plugin marketplaces - to simplify KentiCopilot adoption across projects and AI development tools for his team. Learn about his approach and solution.
Liam Goldfinch used an open-source Xperience by Kentico integration to help guide his AI agent with additional context when using KentiCopilot to generate Page Builder widgets.
Sean Wright why he used AI and KentiCopilot to help him improve the Xperience Community: Component Registry integration, making its data available for AI agents over a new MCP server.
In this episode of Technology and Friends, Brian McKeiver discusses how he uses agents, MCP Servers and other AI tools to accelerate this team's development process. He describes the setup that goes into making this work effectively and the limitations of AI.
The article explains why Xperience by Kentico SQL tables can end up under the db_owner schema instead of dbo when deployed to Azure SQL Database, causing the application to fail to find them at runtime despite their presence.
Would you believe that in just 8 minutes, with the help of a coding agent like Claude Code and tools from KentiCopilot, you can create a complex Page Builder widget with a custom React-based UI Form Component in Xperience by Kentico from a simple requirements prompt? Want the evidence? Check out Dragoljub's post for the details.
What impact is AI having on digital agencies in 2026? Is it accelerating their delivery and helping them achieve the previously impossible or is it a threat to their business model and value? Brian McKeiver finds the whole question exciting and terrifying! He also thinks agencies need to find technology partners, like Kentico, that align with AI opportunities and transformation. This post is in-depth and full of reflection on the past and perspective on the future from Brian's extensive career and experience.
Thinking about an upgrade to Xperience by Kentico? Trevor has a great example why you will be more excited than intimidated - so many custom solutions required in years past are native, easy to use features in Xperience by Kentico. But wait, how do we upgrade "X"? Don't worry, there's a feature for that!
Secure email sending requirements, based on modern technology could be a hurdle to launching your Xperience by Kentico project if you're using Microsoft Exchange Online, but Milan explains the open-source XperienceCommunity.MicrosoftExchange library his team created to solve this exact problem.
Data privacy and customer behavior insights can often be at odds. Businesses want to know what their customers are and are not interested in so they can provide better services, but some audiences data privacy requirements can be a real hurdle. Trevor explains the middle ground he found for his business using Xperience by Kentico - insights and privacy.
If you're still waiting for the right AI train to come along, Nikhila Pocha is here to let you know it's already left the station. Agentic AI support is here for Xperience by Kentico developers with tools like KentiCopilot, and it's time to adopt them.
Dragoljub makes a simple point - AI's impressive capabilities are exactly why you need to think about how you use it and what permissions you give it to complete tasks. If you aren't careful you might accidentally lose important work or data.
What's the value of Xperience by Kentico's update to automation targeting? Dmitry Bastron explains why value-based activity signals are powerful and gives some simple examples of how they can improve a marketer's impact when using automations.
This post, authored by Akshay Sura from Kentico partner Konabos, is a reasoned argument about how AI empowers employees but definitely isn't taking full ownership over tasks and jobs today. It covers the risks you take on when you allow AI to work unsupervised.
In response to Brian McKeiver's post reviewing hosting and deployment options for Xperience by Kentico, Trevor Fayas shares his business's in-production infrastructure setup and why he recommends Cloudflare as a CDN, just like Xperience by Kentico SaaS.
Keeping libraries up to date is sometimes as much of an adventure as creating them in the first place, but often not as glamorous. Victor explains his maintenance experience with his Cache Manager library and why continuing support for projects is important.
Xperience by Kentico's modern .NET technology foundation enables teams many flexible deployment and hosting options, including private cloud or Xperience by Kentico SaaS. Kentico veteran, Brian McKeiver, breaks down all the options and what to consider for your project.
As a Kentico Community Leader, Milan Lund had the opportunity to meet with the Kentico team in-person and discuss his experiences (and challenges) delivering upgrades to Xperience by Kentico. He shares his thoughts on what adds complexity to upgrades (it's not just technical!) and how this close collaboration with Kentico gives him confidence in his future upgrade projects.
Jeroen shares how product evolution and future roadmap inform and align with a digital agency transitioning from a focus on Kentico Xperience 13 development and support to Xperience by Kentico's modern, multichannel, AI-enabled world.
Upgrading to Xperience by Kentico? Here's a quick overview of the platform's data architecture that might surprise developers familiar with older Kentico products.
Mike Wills explains how Xperience by Kentico's agentic AI software development features paired with AI agents and models like Claude Opus 4.5 have transformed his technical workflow over the past year.
Andy Thompson explains why he thinks Xperience by Kentico's approach to AI is "Built for velocity" and accelerates both developers crafting solutions for marketers and marketers using the platform building digital experiences for their customers.
Milan Lund shares his experience and thoughtful perspective on the value of open-sourcing code solutions for Xperience by Kentico projects - the costs and benefits both for library authors and consumers. If you've participated in open-source software development with the Kentico community, this is a must read.
Developers are rapidly adopting AI assisted software development practices and developers in the Kentico community are no different. Dragoljub shares his experience automating an update of Xperience by Kentico across several major versions using Claude Code.
Can you shrink the implementation time of an Xperience by Kentico project down to fit within a single developer's holiday break? With the help of AI, Mike Rahel did exactly this. In this post he shares the real-world agentic AI strategy, tools, and techniques he used to deliver faster than ever before.
Mike Rahel shares his experience working with AI on Xperience by Kentico projects, Kentico's incredibly successful 2025 roadmap in retrospect, and excitement looking forward to 2026 for his consultancy business.
Mike Rahel discusses the real-world impact of AI for a digital agency building Xperience by Kentico solutions - evolving workflows, expectations, and impact on deliverables.
Milan Šůstek, from Kentico partner Bluesoft, shares a clever way of combining multiple Xperience by Kentico MCP servers for content type management and the configuration that delivers the best developer experience.
Liam Goldfinch shares why, in his opinion, one feature of Xperience by Kentico's December 2025 Refresh wins out over all of the other exciting updates.
The post explains how Xperience by Kentico uses AI to deliver practical value for both developers and marketers. Mike Wills explains how combining MCP-driven visitor segmentation with AI-powered insights in Customer Journeys, Kentico enabled a client to set up server-side A/B testing in minutes.
Taking inspiration from Anthropic's software developer AI adoption study, Sean Wright recommends transforming your task to make it more suitable for AI. For example, break it down into smaller steps to reduce complexity or design a way to consistently verify the generated result.
Mike gives a great reminder of what software developers working on Kentico projects are capable of today with AI and makes an excellent observation - Kentico is bringing AI support not only to teams building Xperience by Kentico solutions, but also to the marketers using them.
Kentico MVP from Kentico partner agency Byteminds, Dmitry Bastron, took it upon himself to collect a series of content modeling lessons he's learned during his many years working on DXP solutions, sharing them all as a seasonal advent calendar of guidance and gotchas you don't want to miss.
Pawan Sharma shares how he was inspired by other's success using AI to automate Xperience by Kentico updates to see if he could reproduce the results. His experience? AI completed update process in 1 minute and the confidence to try it on client projects.
Have you tried extending Xperience by Kentico's administration UI using the platform's built-in APIs? Roel de Bruijn recently began his customization exploration and shared his opinion on the experience.
Xperience by Kentico comes with a variety of AI tools and support. Read this blog post to understand what they are, the value they bring for developers, and how to use them.
This post from Pawan Sharma walks us through the detailed process of using Xperience by Kentico's built-in media libraries to Content hub migrator for digital assets, released in mid-2025.
Xperience by Kentico's AIRA AI capabilities aren't just hype. Dmitry Bastron shares his experiences using AIRA's AI content translation feature to speed up project timelines and save costs.
In this webinar, Lukasz - a Docker enthusiast - explores how to combine Xperience by Kentico, MCP servers, and Docker to create a robust and flexible local development environment for agentic AI Xperience development.
Dave Bromeland from BlueModus shares his thoughts on why Kentico's documentation MCP server for Xperience by Kentico is important for his team automating building Xperience solutions.
In this overview of the Kentico Partner Connection 2025 event in Prague, CZ, there's a strong thread running through all the sessions - AI is here, you can be productive with it, you just need to take the initiative. Lukasz buried the lede when he ends this post with "Take FOMO as a positive and do not delay AI adoption anymore."
Pawel covers the business strategy and technical perspectives shared at Kentico Partner Connection 2025 with concise summaries of each presentation and their takeaways. His takeaway from the entire event? "AI isn’t replacing us - it’s amplifying what the best teams already do well."
Using Kentico's new documentation MCP server, Nikhila was able to explore Xperience by Kentico's digital commerce APIs without the frustration of AI confusing product versions and hallucinating technology features. She shares her thoughts on why this kind of AI context management is important in her post.
Any new tool or technology requires learning some tricks and techniques and adopting AI for software development is no different. Dmitry Bastron realized a few changes to his agent prompting approach could significantly improve the AI output. Now he's confident completing large project refactoring with AI.
Seeing is believing, right? Derek Barka had to confirm for himself the productivity improvements his team was seeing with Xperience by Kentico's new documentation MCP server. He shares his experiences using it and the transformational impact AI adoption can have at digital agencies in this post.
Jeff Correa, from Kentico partner agency Sagepath Reply, shares insights from Kentico Partner Connection 2025. He covers economic and industry trends, actionable steps for digital experience programs and where AI is poised to make a measurable impact in 2026.
Milan Lund has first-hand experience with upgrades to Xperience by Kentico. In this post he shares a key productivity booster during these projects - agentic AI software development using Cursor as his IDE. He shares the challenges faced by software developers during upgrades and how an AI agent can help manage the complexity with transforming data and legacy code.
Many marketing teams are upgrading to Xperience by Kentico. Make sure your upgrade project is budgeted effectively, avoids common mistakes, and prepares for the end of support for Kentico Xperience 13 by reading this post from Nathan Jean at BizStream
Dmitry Bastron used an AI agent to help him build a prototype enhancement to Xperience by Kentico for digital asset management. This helped him explain the opportunity value and vision to Kentico's product team much more quickly and clearly than he could have coding it manually by himself.
In this episode of Digital Dexterity, Wes McChristian and Kentico Solutions Engineer, Chris Hajjar, explore the thoughtful balance of art and science in content modeling—a critical approach for building scalable, reusable, and personalized digital experiences.
"SEO still matters - even in the AI era", says Dragoljub Ilic, which is why he crafted an SEO-focused integration for Xperience by Kentico.
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.
Victor wrote a blog post about his open-source integration which he describes as a "lightweight, yet powerful collection of helpers, utilities, and extensions designed to make your life easier and your codebase cleaner.".
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.
Kentico Community Leader, Milan Lund, shows how to use fully customizable autoresponders for visitor form submissions in this detailed step-by-step guide.
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.
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 😀)
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.