Developer learning map

Kentico-specific getting started resources

1. What is Xperience by Kentico – Learn about the next-gen DXP developed by Kentico Software.
2. Xperience by Kentico development basics – Get a basic of the Xperience environment and the responsibilities of individual roles that interact with the system.
3. Install Xperience by Kentico – See a brief Xperience Dancing Goat sample site installation walkthrough.
4. Xperience developer tutorial – Learn how to set up the environment for development, create pages that hold data, display the content on the live site using the Model-View-Controller design pattern, and prepare the page builder feature to allow dynamic modification of page content.
5. Deploy Xperience websites – See the deployment options for Xperience projects.

Kentico-specific content modeling resources

1. Content modeling guide – Learn what content modeling is, how to tie the content model to your marketing goals in Xperience by Kentico applications, and general content modeling recommendations.
2. Model reusable content – Discover techniques for modeling reusable structured content, such as articles or products, and enable your team to manage and repurpose your content across your digital marketing channel.
3. Model website content types – See how to tailor content types to the website’s requirements, such as articles and navigation elements, to foster uniformity and clarity across your entire digital ecosystem.
4. Differences between Page Builder content and structured content – Find out more about the different approaches to content in Xperience website channels.
5. Model website presentation components – Learn how to structure key website presentation components like widgets, page templates, or sections that help editors create a unified visual design while giving them the flexibility to achieve their marketing goals.
6. How to safely evolve a content model – see how developers can manage an evolving solution that will inevitably have breaking changes while maintaining business continuity.

Kentico-specific advanced content presentation resources

1. Page Builder – Go through a comprehensive guide that provides step-by-step instructions on implementing and optimizing Xperience using Kentico Page Builder components.
2. Form Builder – Read how to enable marketers to create dynamic forms using the built-in Xperience in Xperience by Kentico documentation.
3. Reference - Tag Helpers – See how to add tag helpers to views in Xperience by Kentico applications.
4. Defining Editable Area Restrictions – Learn how to limit the options available to marketers in the Page Builder to specific combinations that work best together.
5. Configuring Rich text editor – See how you can customize the built-in editor by changing its configuration (e.g., the set of available formatting options) or by adding custom plugins that extend its available feature set.
6. Taxonomies in Xperience applications – Learn how to leverage taxonomy tags to fetch and display related content in Xperience by Kentico documentation.
7. Creating a video embed widget with visibility conditions – See how you can use multiple visibility conditions in the properties of page builder and form builder components on a custom Video widget.
8. Multilingual – Learn how to localize Xperience applications and manage URLs for multilingual pages while implementing a user-friendly language selector.
9. Retrieve content from media libraries – See how to retrieve different types of files from media libraries in Xperience by Kentico documentation.
10. Retrieving headless content – Learn how to retrieve headless content in the JSON data format through the GraphQL API endpoint.

Kentico-specific configuration resources

1. Digital marketing channels in Xperience – Learn how Xperience understands digital channels, especially what the website channels are and how they fit into the digital experience you can build with Xperience by Kentico DXP.
2. Settings – See the different settings you can use in the administration to configure system features in Xperience by Kentico documentation.
3. Content hub configuration – Learn about the different configuration options you can use to customize your project in Xperience by Kentico documentation.
4. Website channel management – See how to configure websites in Xperience by Kentico documentation.
5. Headless channel management – Learn how to configure Xperience to support delivering content through headless channels, including the content preview.
6. Media libraries configuration – See how to configure media libraries used to store multimedia files such as photos, pictures, sound files, videos, package files, or documents.
7. Work with users – Learn about user management in Xperience by Kentico and empower your team with the right roles and permissions for efficient content creation and personalization.
8. Work with roles – See how Xperience by Kentico leverages the role-based access control system to manage which applications and actions editors and marketers can perform.
9. Reference - Configuration keys – Find out more how to extend settings available in Xperience administration using low-level application settings.

Kentico-specific resources about data access techniques

1. Use abstraction and enterprise-level architecture in Xperience projects – Learn about the benefits of abstraction in enterprise projects and the advantages of layering for code maintenance. See examples of displaying content with clean architecture in Xperience by Kentico.
2. Guide to Repository pattern with a Generic Type in Xperience by Kentico – Go through a step-by-step process of creating repositories that retrieve data from the Xperience by Kentico database.

Kentico-specific caching, testing, and optimization resources

1. Caching – Learn about the built-in caching mechanisms to improve performance and content delivery.
2. Event log – See how you can view logged information about system-level events in the documentation article.
3. Xperience by Kentico MiniProfiler – The integration allows you to use a simple but effective mini-profiler for .NET and other languages. Michael Eustace, Kentico MVP, describes how to use this integration in his article Get to know Xperience by Kentico: Unlocking performance insights with MiniProfiler.
4. Diagnose Page Builder template – Learn about different template configuration errors and how to solve them.

Kentico-specific registration and authentication resources

• Users – Learn about managing users and roles and enabling registration and authentication user and role management in the Xperience by Kentico documentation.
• Reference - Xperience Portal user roles – Find out about the different users and roles to access the Xperience Portal administration and read through a detailed reference that explains the Xperience Portal’s roles and privileges.
• Developing registration and authentication – Learn how to implement different registration and authentication mechanisms in Xperience by Kentico documentation.
• Members – Learn about the members, who are visitors registered on the website who can browse the website, access secured content but don’t have access to the administration UI.
• Add fields to member objects – See how you can extend the default field set of your member objects.

Kentico-specific deployment resources

1. Deploy to the SaaS environment – See how you can deploy to multiple environments to isolate the production and non-production application instances using the Xperience Portal in Xperience by Kentico documentation.
2. Manage SaaS deployments – Learn how to work with Xperience Portal to manage and debug different environments, monitor the uptime of application deployments, or evaluate the performance of your projects in Xperience by Kentico documentation.
3. Deploy self-managed projects – See how to you can run Xperience on dedicated or virtual servers or manage your hosting on the Microsoft Azure in Xperience by Kentico documentation.
4. Deploy without the administration – See how to remove the Xperience administration interface and all related customizations when publishing to production in Xperience by Kentico documentation.
5. Auto-scaling support in Xperience – Learn about the built-in support for autoscaling you can use to distribute computing among multiple applications or increase availability in Xperience by Kentico documentation.
6. Xperience by Kentico CI/CD developer scenarios – Get inspiration from various scenarios for managing and deploying code using Continuous Deployment, and other Xperience features.

Kentico-specific maintenance resources

1. Maintaining Xperience application – Learn about different maintenance scenarios in Kentico Advantage.
2. Update Xperience by Kentico projects – See the documentation for an overview of recommended approaches to updating Xperience by Kentico projects.
3. Changelog – Get familiar with the Xperience changelog.
4. Keeping your Xperience by Kentico project up-to-date using Dependabot – Learn from Liam Goldfinch, Kentico MVP, how to use Dependabot to regularly scan your project to identify vulnerabilities, outdated packages, or even raise pull requests.

Kentico-specific customization resources

Custom module

1. Create a basic module in Xperience – Follow a series of guides that show you how to implement a module that holds custom settings.
2. Add a custom field to the Contact profile – See how to extend the contact profile to allow marketers to track custom domain-specific data about visitors.

Extending UI pages

1. Extend the administration interface – See how to extend the existing Xperience UI in the documentation.
2. Integrate custom code – Learn the recommended approach to adding custom code into your project.
3. Administration interface UI tests – Learn about the recommended practices for testing custom UI code created to extend Xperience administration.

Extend default functionality

1. Extending Xperience by Kentico Administration UI Pages – Learn how to extend the existing UI pages to display the required information.
2. Extending Xperience by Kentico Administration UI Pages #2 - Enhanced System Overview – See how you can extend the Xperience administration UI to help developers track deployments in multiple environments.
3. Handle global events – Learn about the different options you can use to execute custom code whenever specific actions occur within the system.
4. Excluding Content Items from Continuous Deployment – See the different ways you can use to remove specific object types from continuous deployment.
5. Customize system providers – Learn about providers in Xperience API that you can use to manipulate objects and perform various actions.

Kentico-specific data protection resources

1. Data protection – Learn how to implement data protection and the cookie consents in a series of guides.

Kentico-specific activity tracking resources

1. Activities and digital marketing – Learn about standard activity tracking, logging custom activities, and other scenarios in a dedicated series of guides on digital marketing.
2. Contact configuration – See an overview of what contacts are and how they work in Xperience by Kentico documentation.
3. Activity tracking in headless channels – Read documentation about how to track visitors as contacts and log their activities in Xperience headless channels.

Kentico-specific content personalization resources

1. Content personalization – Learn about different approaches to enable marketers to tailor visitor content based on their preferences.
2. Develop personalization condition types – See how you can create conditions marketers will use to personalize widgets.

Kentico-specific emails resources

1. Email channel management – Find out how to configure channels marketers can use to send and administer emails.
2. Email templates – Learn how to create templates in Xperience by Kentico documentation.
3. Set up email tracking – See how to enhance emails that allow marketers to track sent emails and monitor recipients’ interactions.
4. Email customizations – Learn how to customize the default system’s email-sending process.
5. Programmatically sending templated emails with dynamic data – Learn about building custom templated emails that the system sends based on specific events.
6. Custom form autoresponder emails – Learn how to send simple autoresponder emails after form submissions.
7. Custom Autoresponder Emails with Razor Components – See how to create “developer-managed” autoresponder emails that fully customize automatic responses for form submissions.
8. Set up custom workflow notifications – Follow this guide to set up notifications about workflow steps.

Kentico-specific API resources

• Use the Xperience by Kentico API externally – See how to configure and external .NET application to work with Xperience API.
• Xperience by Kentico API Examples – See the API examples documentation to learn the basics of the Xperience by Kentico API, and serves as a library of code snippets.
• Content item API – Learn about the API available for working with content items.
• ObjectQuery API – Find out more about the QbjectQuery API that creates an abstraction layer over the SQL database.
• Database table API – Learn about the API for managing the data stored in database tables.
• Files API and CMS.IO – Find out more about the CMS.IO namespace that provides an interlayer between the business layer of Xperience and storage used for physical files.
• Macro expressions – Go through a section of Xperience by Kentico documentation that covers macro expressions and raises different considerations for developing and deploying code containing macros.

Kentico-specific integration resources

1. Choose the right tools for your integration – Learn the available entry points for integrating Xperience projects with third-party services.
2. Xperience third-party integrations – See an overview of different third-party integrations in Xperience by Kentico documentation.

Search

1. Xperience by Kentico Algolia – Learn about the integration you can use to create Algolia search indexes to index content of web pages from an Xperience website channel using a code-first approach.
2. Xperience by Kentico Azure AI Search – Learn about an integration that allows you to AzureSearch search indexes to index content of pages from the Xperience content tree using a code-first approach.
3. Xperience by Kentico Lucene – Learn about the integration leveraging the latest 4.8 beta version of Lucene.NET, enabling auto-indexing of content in Xperience based on application-local, code-defined search indexes and search results retrieval.

Migrations

1. Upgrade from Kentico Xperience 13 – Learn the basic information related to upgrading projects from Kentico Xperience 13 to Xperience by Kentico.
2. Xperience by Kentico Migration Toolkit – Learn about the tools designed to help teams migrate content from various data sources into Xperience by Kentico solutions.