Xpand your Xperience with Xpandable Sections

Sections in Kentico Xperience 13

Kentico Xperience 13 is a modern digital experience platform aimed at content management, digital marketing, and commerce projects. It can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud to deliver engaging, personalized experiences, create remarkable digital touchpoints, build solutions using a modern .NET MVC platform, and integrate with the tools you need. 👑

Kentico Xperience 13 includes a WYSIWYG page builder that structures page content into editable areas with sections, and sections into widget zones with widgets. Typically sections are created by developers to suit different layouts: two columns, three columns, a column and a CTA box, or any other presentation. Once defined in code, the sections are available in the page builder for marketers to use. 🖼

However, if there is a layout that a marketer wishes to have, they must go to the developers and describe their use case, from which the developers will need to prioritize a sprint to make it happen. This takes time and effort, delaying both the marketer and the developers' work and causing friction in the content pipeline. 😠

Enter no-code xpandable sections

The Xpandable section is a way to avoid that friction. It is a section which allows a marketer to define how many and in which shape the section's widget zones are. It can be two columns, three columns, or a Sierpinski triangle of zones - there are no limits! 🚀

The marketer can change the direction of a group of widget zones, switching from horizontal to vertical, and can also name zones for easy identification. 🎉

For styling, the direction, name, depth, and index of each widget zone show up as HTML classes, so targeting a specific zone or group of zones becomes straightforward. 💯

The section comes in a NuGet package (a shareable package of code) that a developer can install to your Kentico Xperience 13 project and then it becomes available in the page builder. After this one-time installation, no further developer assistance is needed. 👍

The possibilities xtend beyond the horizon! ☀

Let me know down below if you have any questions or would like to start a discussion!