Module: Upgrading to Xperience by Kentico - Walkthrough
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Keep learning about Xperience by Kentico
Upgrading from Kentico Xperience 13 to Xperience by Kentico is a significant step toward a more flexible, modern content platform. You’ve now seen what the process looks like, what to prepare for, and how to approach each part of the transition with a clear strategy.
This module gave you a hands-on look at how to upgrade the Dancing Goat demo project — and more importantly, it showed how the same steps apply to your own real-world projects.
Key Takeaways
- You’ve learned how to prepare your environment and install the Kentico Migration Tool.
- You’ve walked through migrating data and media using configurable CLI parameters.
- You understand how to adjust your codebase, including changes to APIs, modules, authentication, and content structure.
- You explored how to preserve or adapt your existing business logic, from Page Builder components to custom modules.
- You’re aware of the new features in Xperience by Kentico and how to take advantage of them moving forward.
What’s next?
This module is just the beginning. To continue your upgrade journey, check out the official Kentico Migration Tool on GitHub. There, you’ll find the latest documentation, configuration examples, and helpful links to support your upgrade process.
If you’re planning a migration to Xperience by Kentico from another solution, the Kentico Migration Toolkit can help you streamline the process and reduce manual effort.
The toolkit is a growing collection of open-source tools maintained by Kentico and designed to support content and data migration from a variety of sources. Each tool is hosted and documented on GitHub, giving you full access to customize or extend them for your project.
Explore the tools:
- Sitecore Migration Tool – Bring over content from Sitecore.
- Sitefinity Migration Tool – Transfer projects from Sitefinity.
- Universal Migration Tool – A flexible base for importing from any external data source.
Kentico continues to invest in and expand the toolkit, with regular enhancements aligned to the product roadmap. While the tools don’t aim to cover 100% of every migration scenario, they significantly reduce the cost and effort of moving to Xperience by Kentico. Find the tools that best match your needs — or adapt them to your own migration path.
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We’re always looking for ways to make our guides more helpful. If you have feedback on this module — what worked well, what could be clearer, or what you’d like to see next — we’d love to hear from you.
Thanks for learning with us. We’re excited to see what you build next with Xperience by Kentico.