Upgrade deep dives
No two project upgrades are the same, but diving into more technical example scenarios will help you familiarize yourself with the available tools.
These scenarios highlight more advanced use cases than those covered in the upgrade walkthrough from the Architecture guides.
If you haven’t already seen our upgrade overview materials and followed the basic walkthrough, we recommend checking them out before these guides.
Evolve your content model
Bring your content into the modern era by restructuring your data for newer architecture.
Remodel page types as reusable field schemas HOW-TO
Transform your content model to take advantage of new features like Reusable field schemas while you migrate data from Kentico Xperience 13 to Xperience by Kentico.
Speed up remodeling with AI CONCEPT
See how agentic AI coding assistants can accelerate the process of remodeling content types and field mappings during your upgrade. Learn how to provide the best context and instructions for the highest quality results.
Transfer parent-child page hierarchy to the Content hub HOW-TO
Modernize your content without losing page hierarchy by creating automatic relationships between reusable items as you migrate them to the Content hub.
Upgrade your custom widgets
Give your editors the tools they need for flexible, eye-catching pages, modernizing widgets to work with newer content models.
Upgrade widgets from Kentico Xperience 13 CONCEPT
Explore your options for migrating widgets from KX13 to XbyK, looking at data transfer strategies and modernization best practices.
Migrate widget data as reusable content HOW-TO
Transform KX13 widget data into reusable Content hub items using custom widget migration to modernize your architecture during your XbyK upgrade.
Use other new Xperience features
Explore some of Xperience’s other cutting-edge features and how to apply them in your upgraded project.
Optimize images during your upgrade HOW-TO
Ensure lightning-fast images by configuring the Kentico migration tool to use Xperience’s automatic image optimization feature for media library files and page attachments.
Upgrade your content retrieval code HOW-TO
Convert your content retrieval code from IPageRetriever
, DocumentHelper
, and TreeProvider
patterns to modern XbyK APIs with practical examples from real KX13 scenarios.