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What's our community been up to?

Don't risk waiting too long to upgrade from Kentico 13

by Ben Quinlan

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.

Early Lessons in AI Enablement: People, Patterns, and Pitfalls

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.

Consolidation as the Overlooked Force in MarTech

by Roel Kuik

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...

Kentico SAAS: Pros and Cons vs Self Hosting

by Derek Barka

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.

Kentico's journey from user feedback forums to public roadmaps

by Sean Wright

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.

Migrating a Split Kentico Database to Xperience by Kentico

by Brenden Kehren

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.

Supercharge your Workflow: AI for Strategy and Code

by Wesley McChristian

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.

Open sourcing an Xperience website

by Liam Goldfinch

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.

Why I’m fine paying 3× more for my AI tool

by Milan Lund

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.

CMS Connect 25 - Questions are the Answer (LinkedIn)

by Sean Wright

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.

Just a CMS isn't enough

by Roel Kuik

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.

XperienceCommunity.Exports

by Ben Quinlan

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.

Increase Content hub listing page size

by Victor Hugo Garcia

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.

Creative solutions with Froala rich text plugins

by Joshua Hess

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.

Content and Commerce Without the Headaches

by Liam Goldfinch

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.

Reusable content items (Content hub) (LinkedIn)

by Nikhila Pocha

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.

Xperience by Kentico local installation videos - Part 1 & 2

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.

Cache Manager for Xperience by Kentico (LinkedIn)

by Victor Hugo Garcia

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.

Xperience by Kentico Headless channel & Next.js: GraphQL API (Part 3)

by Milan Lund

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.

It's time to move to Xperience by Kentico

by Andy Thompson

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.

We should drive the AI, not the other way around (LinkedIn)

by Milan Lund

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.

New content retriever API (LinkedIn)

by Milan Lund

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.

Datatable UI form component (LinkedIn)

by Dragoljub Ilic

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!

Beyond the CMS - Future-Proofing CMS Solutions with Sean Wright

by Sean Wright

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.

Beyond the Build: Designing for Impactful Digital Experiences

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.

DDOS Attack is Real and Painful

by Danny Paul van Iersel

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.

DXP is a Misnomer

by Derek Barka

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".

Content Strategy for a Successful Xperience by Kentico Migration

by Lukasz Skowronski

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.

Navigating the Future: Kentico's Migration Strategy Explained

by Wesley McChristian

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.

Xperience By Kentico dreams: smart paste feature

by Dmitry Bastron

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.

Should your video include CTA? (LinkedIn)

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 channel licensing model fits all business sizes

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.

Headless vs DXP: Race to Usability

by Derek Barka

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.

Mastering Xperience by Kentico: Must-Know Tips for Building Websites with Page Builder

by Lukasz Skowronski

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.

Xperience by Kentico Migrations (LinkedIn)

by Dmitry Bastron

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.

Reflections on Kentico Partner Connections 2024 Miami

by Mike Rahel

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.

AI and the CMS (LinkedIn)

by Liam Goldfinch

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...

What’s next for Kentico: From Sydney to Miami

by Joe Peschardt

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.

Your last migration to Xperience by Kentico

by Dmitry Bastron

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.

Solving a Complex Middleware Collision in Kentico SaaS

by Mike Rahel

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.

Become a Certified Xperience by Kentico Developer: Exam Guide

by Manthan Jangid

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!

Xperience by Kentico at 20,025 feet

by Brian McKeiver

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.

Page templates step by step

by Elmar Höfinghoff

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.

XperienceCommunity.FormNotifications

by Ben Quinlan

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!

Kentico Partner Connection Miami 2024 Recap

by Brian McKeiver

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.

Mastering serialization at Xperience by Kentico

by Lukasz Skowronski

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.

Kentico Connection 2024 Prague

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.

Is Xperience by Kentico ready?

by Andy Thompson

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's Xperience Portal and SaaS: From Setup to Production

by Milan Lund

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!

Optimising content control for developers in XbyK

by Ben Quinlan

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!

Kentico Connections Prague 2024

by Roel Kuik

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.

Handling Search Index Rebuilds in Xperience by Kentico’s SaaS Environment

by Milan Lund

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.

Customize Xperience by Kentico UI – Channel specific settings

by Dragoljub Ilic

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 Community: Page Extenders

by Michael Eustace

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.

How to Easily Extend Xperience by Kentico UI Pages with Page Extenders

by Liam Goldfinch

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.

Using Page Builder With Custom Routing in Xperience by Kentico

by tstirtz

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.

How to Migrate Content from Kentico CMS Portal Engine to Xperience by Kentico

by Milan Lund

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.

Content strategies for Xperience by Kentico

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.

Xperience by Kentico Content Querying Updates

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.

Upgrading to Xperience by Kentico

by Ben Quinlan

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.

Kentico Exam – tips

by Danny Paul van Iersel

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.

Xperience by Kentico: A Breath of Fresh Air

by Ben Buurstra

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".

AI adoption: Challenges

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...

Integrating Headless Shopify with Xperience by Kentico

by Liam Goldfinch

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.

20 Years of Kentico – A Review

by Elmar Höfinghoff

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 User Group UK

by Liam Goldfinch

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.

Reflections on Content Architectures

by Mike Wills

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.

Inheritance made easy with Reusable Field Schemas in Xperience by Kentico

by Elmar Höfinghoff

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 😀)

Kentico Community Portal release v29.0.3.2

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.

Xperience Community: Localizations

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.

DXPs "race to the middle"

by Sean Wright

Are traditional and composable DXPs racing to "the middle", adopting each other's features, or is the landscape evolving into something new?

Xperience by Kentico is Here

by Brian McKeiver

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.

Activity logging with Xperience by Kentico

by Dmitry Bastron

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.