Upgrade to Xperience by Kentico
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.
Plan your upgrade
Upgrade from Kentico Xperience 13
Upgrading your solution can seem like an overwhelming task. These guides are here to help clarify the process and what it might entail.
Upgrade overview CONCEPT
Take a high-level look at the process of upgrading from Kentico Xperience 13 to Xperience by Kentico and what it might entail.
Upgrade - Frequently asked questions CONCEPT
Get answers to the most common questions from solution architects and tech leaders about planning, executing, and troubleshooting upgrades with the Kentico Migration Tool.
Upgrade - Commerce features overview CONCEPT
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.
Plan your strategy for migrating features CONCEPT
If you are wondering about the effort the upgrade will require of your team, read our guide that breaks down the complexity by feature.
Prep for the upgrade and transfer data CONCEPT
Expand upon the processes of preparing your environment for data migration and running the Xperience by Kentico: Kentico Migration Tool.
Adjust your code and adapt your project CONCEPT
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.
Upgrade walkthrough
Walk through the upgrade step-by-step
Get hands-on experience with the upgrade process.
Upgrade walkthrough series HOW-TO
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.
Upgrade deep dives for developers
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.
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.
Work with widgets during upgrade
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.
Transform widget properties HOW-TO
Transform widget properties during your KX13 to XbyK upgrade; migrate UI controls, restructure properties, and handle custom components.
Convert child pages to widget content HOW-TO
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.
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.