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Xperience by Kentico Headless channel & Next.js: Exploration (Part 1)
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.
3 Simple Commands: Installing Xperience by Kentico Has Never Been Easier
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.
How Data Protection APIs (DPAPI) Enhance Security in Your CMS
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.
Xperience by Kentico: Make your next Kentico upgrade your last (Webinar)
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.
Navigating the Future: Kentico's Migration Strategy Explained
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
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.
How to Send Notification Emails as a Custom Autoresponder in 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.
Beyond the Build - Building AI Ready Websites with Mike Wills
In this webinar, Kentico MVP Mike Wills discusses why SGE (Search Generative Experience) and AI are critical considerations for every modern website.
Rebuilding a Website with Xperience by Kentico: 12 Key Steps
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.
Fast-Track Your Kentico Development: Running Xperience by Kentico on Docker (Webinar)
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.
Set Up Xperience by Kentico on Docker in Minutes
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.
Optimizing LCP Core Web Vitals metric in Xperience by Kentico widgets
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.
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
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.
Insights on Xperience by Kentico's Workspaces Features
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.
Mastering Xperience by Kentico: Must-Know Tips for Building Websites with Page Builder
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 Baseline documentation (LinkedIn)
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!
Xperience by Kentico Migrations (LinkedIn)
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.
Inspecting raw database data in 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" 👏.
Reflections on Kentico Partner Connections 2024 Miami
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.
How to check what your Xperience by Kentico stores inside the Lucene indexes
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!
Why should you care more about your Xperience by Kentico instance after it goes live?
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.
AI and the CMS (LinkedIn)
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
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.
How Kentico’s SaaS solution drives scalability, security, and speed for growing businesses
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.
Your last migration to Xperience by Kentico
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
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.
Get to know Xperience by Kentico: The Continuous Deployment feature
Kentico MVP Michael Eustace published a vide 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!
Xperience by Kentico – Implement Wildcard
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.
Become a Certified Xperience by Kentico Developer: Exam Guide
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!
How to initialize JavaScript in Xperience by Kentico Page Builder Widgets
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.
Xperience by Kentico at 20,025 feet
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
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
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!
Creating a restricted area on your website or build a full portal for users
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.
How to migrate content from PROD to QA within your SaaS Xperience by Kentico?
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.
Kentico Partner Connection Miami 2024 Recap
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
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.
Simple Guide for Creating an Azure AI Search Index in Xperience by Kentico
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!
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?
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
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
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!
Digital Dexterity: Community, Roadmap, and Delivering Promises
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.
Kentico Connections Prague 2024
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.
Tips for Migrating from KX13 to Xperience by Kentico
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!
Handling Search Index Rebuilds in Xperience by Kentico’s SaaS Environment
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
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
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.
Launching a website with Xperience by Kentico: First Impressions
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!"
How to Easily Extend Xperience by Kentico UI Pages with Page Extenders
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
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.
Missing ScheduleTasks in Xperience by Kentico? Simply integrate Hangfire
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.
How to Migrate Content from Kentico CMS Portal Engine to Xperience by Kentico
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.
Xperience by Kentico – release process considerations and deployment on the SaaS environment
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.
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
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
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
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".
Enable Quick Page Editing from Your Xperience by Kentico Website Channels
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!
A Guide to the Xperience by Kentico Certified Developer Certification
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.
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...
Boost Site Speed Using Image Processing for Xperience by Kentico
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.
Optimizing Image Performance in Xperience by Kentico
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 FAQs: Understanding Versions and Services Naming
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?
Integrating Headless Shopify with 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.
Do content hubs work, or do we just like doing the same thing over and over again?
Kentico partner agency, ADHD Interactive, shares some insight on the benefit of the Content hub and resusable and composable content in Xperience by Kentico.
Understanding Content Security Policy (CSP) and Its Importance
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!
Get to know Xperience by Kentico: Unlocking performance insights with MiniProfiler
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.
Setting Up a Solution for Integrating Custom Code in Xperience by Kentico on macOS
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!
Get to know Xperience by Kentico: The Page Selector form component
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.
20 Years of Kentico – A Review
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
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
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.
Guide to Repository pattern with a Generic type in Xperience by Kentico
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!
Did you know that Kentico turned 20 years old?
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!
5 Web Developer Resources for Xperience by Kentico
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!
Inheritance made easy with Reusable Field Schemas in Xperience by Kentico
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.
Page Builder limitations can help marketers
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.
DXPs "race to the middle"
Are traditional and composable DXPs racing to "the middle", adopting each other's features, or is the landscape evolving into something new?
Content hub folder uses
Read a perspective about Content hub folders from the Kentico community.
Xperience by Kentico is Here
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.