Ready to modernize your digital experience platform? This section provides comprehensive guidance for upgrading your existing projects to Xperience by Kentico.
Whether you're a team lead planning the upgrade, a solution architect working through the migration, or a developer looking for advanced technical guidance, here you'll find resources tailored to your needs.
Upgrading your solution can seem like an overwhelming task. These guides are here to help clarify the process and what it might entail.
Take a high-level look at the process of upgrading from Kentico Xperience 13 to Xperience by Kentico and what it might entail.
Get answers to the most common questions from solution architects and tech leaders about planning, executing, and troubleshooting upgrades with the Kentico Migration Tool.
Plan your move of your commerce site from K13 to XbyK. Compare features, understand architectural shifts, and see suggestions how to implement features missing in XbyK.
If you are wondering about the effort the upgrade will require of your team, read our guide that breaks down the complexity by feature.
Expand upon the processes of preparing your environment for data migration and running the Xperience by Kentico: Kentico Migration Tool.
Delve deeper into the upgrade process, discussing how to update code that relates to various Kentico Xperience 13 features and utilize new features from Xperience by Kentico.
Get hands-on experience with the upgrade process.
Learn the basics of upgrading your solution with this step-by-step, code-along guide using the Dancing Goat sample site. The guide covers both data migration and code adjustments to display a Kentico Xperience 13 page seamlessly in Xperience by Kentico.
Migrations don't have to feel like rewrites. These guides show how to use KentiCopilot kentico-kx13-migration plugin (opens in a new tab) to accelerate your upgrade from Kentico Xperience 13 to Xperience by Kentico, reducing manual effort while improving quality and consistency across projects.
Watch a video overview demonstrating how KentiCopilot audits a Kentico Xperience 13 project and tailors the Kentico Migration Tool for smooth, speedy data migration.
See what KentiCopilot's code migration looks like in practice. Watch a demo of the full workflow and learn what the agent handles, what you get at the end, and what still needs attention.
Move from demo to real project execution. Learn practical setup guidance, recommended phase order, verification checkpoints, and ways to shape migration output to your target architecture.
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.
Bring your content into the modern era by restructuring your data for newer architecture.
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.
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.
Migrate SKU data alongside page type fields from Kentico Xperience 13 into Xperience by Kentico, creating and referencing SKU variants and media file images from parent products.
Modernize your content without losing page hierarchy by creating automatic relationships between reusable items as you migrate them to the Content hub.
Give your editors the tools they need for flexible, eye-catching pages, modernizing widgets to work with newer content models.
Explore your options for migrating widgets from KX13 to XbyK, looking at data transfer strategies and modernization best practices.
Transform KX13 widget data into reusable Content hub items using custom widget migration to modernize your architecture during your XbyK upgrade.
Transform widget properties during your KX13 to XbyK upgrade; migrate UI controls, restructure properties, and handle custom components.
Convert child pages into flexible Page Builder widgets, transforming page tree content into reusable Content hub items that editors can manage through a drag-and-drop interface.
Learn how to migrate collection-based widget scenarios in Xperience by Kentico. This guide explains four recommended strategies and helps you choose the one that best fits your project’s content model, editorial needs, and long-term architecture.
Explore some of Xperience's other cutting-edge features and how to apply them in your upgraded project.
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.
Convert your content retrieval code from IPageRetriever, DocumentHelper, and TreeProvider patterns to modern XbyK APIs with practical examples from real KX13 scenarios.