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Frequently asked questions about authoring and sharing contributions to the Kentico community.

A community contribution is anything you create related to Xperience by Kentico, digital marketing, software development, or related technology that you would like to share with the Kentico community.

For example, many community members have shared the following:

  • Blog posts
  • LinkedIn posts
  • Podcasts
  • Open-source software
  • YouTube videos

  • Are you a digital marketer who launched their first landing page on Xperience by Kentico?

  • Did you use an AI agent as a software developer to build a cool open-source Xperience by Kentico integration?

  • Are you an agency account manager who found a creative way to teach your clients about the Content hub?

It doesn't matter what your knowledge, experience, or job role is - if you have something to share about Kentico we'd like to hear about it!

Any member of the Kentico Community Portal can use the submission form to share their contribution.

Our community team reviews the contribution and decides the best way to share it with the community.

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If we choose to promote the contribution it will be credited to your member account and other community members can see it on your public profile.

It will also be listed on the Community contributions page two weeks after the submission date.

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  1. Tag Kentico with an @Kentico somewhere in your post to make sure we get notified.
  2. Use hashtags #Kentico or #XperienceByKentico to talk about us as a company or Xperience by Kentico as a product.
  3. Don't be shy using #DXP, #CMS, #DigitalMarketing, or #DigitalExperience hash tags.

Remember, sharing something on social media is digital marketing! Think about how you can craft a message for your audience that connects with them and shares some knowledge or insight they'll find valuable.

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What's our community been up to?

Your AI Wizard can't fight every fire

by Mike Wills

"Everyone wants a wizard to keep their project under budget." Mike Wills shares a key takeaway from his presentation at Kentico Connection 2026 - don't try to scale an individual, scale the process. Instead of trying to make an AI expert in a company available to every team, find a way to give every team the ability to work like an AI expert.

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New sites used to be six-figures, not they're $10,000

by Mike Wills

Mike Wills calls out what happens when the cost of executing on a strategy decreases by a factor of ten. Consolidating many websites, across a variety of CMS platforms, into a single Xperience by Kentico application becomes a reality and marketers suddenly are able to truly focus on big picture strategic value for the first time.

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Behind the Build: A Full-Circle Story

As part of the September 2026 Kentico Site of the Month awards, we celebrate veteran Kentico community member Trevor Fayas. More than a decade ago, as a junior developer he moved Physics Classroom onto Kentico 7. He went on to become a multi-year Kentico MVP and Community Leader, and in 2024 he bought the site from its retiring owner. Now owner and developer, he's brought it onto Xperience by Kentico.

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AI is changing how we build and use websites

by MikeVallotton

Mike Vallotton gives a quick overview of his takeaways from Kentico Connection North America 2026 in just a few minutes, covering AI's impact on how technical teams build websites, but also customers' shifting behaviors in how they engage with them.

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In 2026 the bottleneck is rarely slow developers

by Dmitry Bastron

Reflecting on a recent migration from Sitecore to Xperience by Kentico, Dmitry Bastron observes that agentic AI software development can accelerate both marketers and developers. The CMS they use can be the difference between brittle copy-paste click operations and fully automated AI development.

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Content Model Graph version 1.0

by Sean Wright

Sean Wright shares how agentic AI software development with KentiCopilot and Xperience by Kentico helped him bring a powerful idea to life over the course of a week of international travel and some AI agent sessions.

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Your Next CMS Problem Won’t Be Technical

by Graeme_Ashworth

The 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?

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How do you ensure control in your CMS, when AI can now make everything?

by Jeroen Fürst

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?

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Content type design tells the history of an Xperience project

by Dragoljub Ilic

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.

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AI tooling should be like a toilet

by Mike Wills

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.

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Form Cloning in Xperience Community Forms Toolkit

by andresvillenas

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.

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Generate one-time code to remodel XbK content types

by Matthew Sandstrom

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.

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Marketing automation in 2026: what it is, what it isn't, and why the boring parts still win

by Dmitry Bastron

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.

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From Localhost to Live on AWS: Deploying Kentico’s Dancing Goat with Docker, Terraform, and GitHub Actions on ECS Fargate

by Pawan Sharma

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.

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Most marketing automation licenses never got past the welcome email

by Andy Thompson

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.

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You can easily extend Xperience's admin UI yourself

by Roel de Bruijn

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.

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Is AI taking the fun out of content management?

by Michael Eustace

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.

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Reflections from the Kentico MVP Summit 2026

by Jeroen Fürst

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.

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Five Patterns Every Great Digital Project of 2025 Got Right

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.

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Getting started with KentiCopilot

by Milan Šůstek

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.

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The AI Mistake We've Made Before

by Derek Barka

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.

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How AI Changed the Shape of Delivery on a Real Kentico Project

by Liam Goldfinch

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.

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Understand who owns what in Xperience marketing automations

by Ben Quinlan

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.

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AI Agents Automated a Full Sprint of XbK Front-End Integration

by Mike Wills

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.

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SEO and GEO finally collapse into one workflow

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.

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The DXP is becoming where intent lives

by Roel Kuik

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...

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Practical impact and value always beats exciting in DXP migrations

by Patrick Huerto

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.

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From Content to Context: 12 months on

by Debbie Tucek

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.

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Run a Structured Health Scanner Inside Your XbyK App

by Mike Rahel

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.

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AI agents are only as good as your workflow

by Sean Wright

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.

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Xperience by Kentico Upgrades are not just a technical step

by Dragoljub Ilic

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.

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The value of consolidation for digital marketing campaigns

by Michael Eustace

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?"

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From moving content to an engineered content system

by Nikhila Pocha

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.

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Xperience Community: Content Repositories

by Victor Hugo Garcia

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.

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Don't accept the defaults with AI agents

by Sean Wright

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.

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Go Farther, Faster: Turning AI into Real Marketing Value

by Wesley McChristian

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?

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The Junior Developer Problem Is More Complicated Than You Think

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.

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Agency transformations as AI commoditizes software

by Michael Eustace

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.

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Improving Developer Workflow with AI

by Brian McKeiver

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.

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Claude Code + KentiCopilot

by Dragoljub Ilic

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.

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Agentic AI for Agencies in 2026 - Brian McKeiver

by Brian McKeiver

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.

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There's an Xperience by Kentico feature for that!

by Trevor Fayas

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!

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Easy to use privacy and tracking controls in Xperience by Kentico

by Trevor Fayas

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.

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My Xperience by Kentico hosting setup

by Trevor Fayas

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.

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Upgrades to Xperience and collaboration with Kentico

by Milan Lund

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.

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From bot babysitter to dog walker

by Mike Wills

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.

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Creative A/B testing in Xperience by Kentico using AI

by Mike Wills

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.

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Transforming your task to suit AI automation

by Sean Wright

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.

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Content modeling advent 2025

by Dmitry Bastron

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.

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Kentico Partner Connection 2025 review

by PawelNienartowicz

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."

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Kentico Docs MCP Server: A Great Step Forward

by Derek Barka

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.

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Boosting Productivity in Migration Projects: Lessons from the Trenches

by Milan Lund

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.

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Strategic budgeting for Xperience by Kentico upgrades

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

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AI assisted Xperience by Kentico prototyping

by Dmitry Bastron

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.

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The Art & Science of Content Modeling

by Wesley McChristian

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.

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Simplify SEO in Xperience by Kentico

by Victor Hugo Garcia

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.

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AI driven UX improvements to Kentico Community: Sustainability

by Liam Goldfinch

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.

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Demystifying AI in Xperience by Kentico: why it’s more than a gimmick

by Ben Quinlan

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.

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Xperience Community: Essentials

by Victor Hugo Garcia

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.".

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Why Comparing Xperience by Kentico and Umbraco Misses the Point

by Lukasz Skowronski

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.

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Achieving more with AI: Adding end-to-end website tests with an AI agent

by Liam Goldfinch

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.

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How I built an AI reporting stack by just... describing it

by Alexandros Koukovistas

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.

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Migrations are opportunities for transformation

by Nikhila Pocha

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.

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Context engineering is far older than AI

by Sean Wright

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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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How to become a Kentico MVP

by Dmitry Bastron

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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".

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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".

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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...

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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!)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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