Eric Dugre

Kentico Xperience has the capability to gather tons of data about your visitors’ activities including purchases, email interactions, and browsing history. But, how do you sort through these thousands of records to display informative graphs and analyze your campaign effectiveness? This new integration with Looker Studio helps you set up new reports in minutes!

Wish there was a better way to send Xperience emails than an old-fashioned SMTP server? Using the SendGrid Web API, you can now send all Xperience emails faster than traditional SMTP servers, and make use of the many features SendGrid has to offer!

A new integration for Xperience 13 makes it easier for marketers and salespersons to track new leads and their activities in Dynamics 365! This easily configurable and customizable integration provides two-way synchronization of contacts between the products, as well as their Xperience activities. With all the important information in one location, your team can work more efficiently with your contacts!

Have you ever wondered if that newly published article is available on Google Search? Or why some users are reporting issues when viewing your site on mobile devices? We all know that Google Search Console is an invaluable tool for increasing your site’s visibility and usability, and now you can view it directly within Xperience!

As an Xperience user, you may already be familiar with our Smart Search and Azure Search options, but perhaps you’re looking for something different. We’re happy to announce that we’re expanding our robust search functionality by adding Algolia to the family! This sleek search service has been climbing the ranks as one of the top search APIs in the world, and you can now easily create and configure Algolia search indexes in your Xperience websites!

Thanks to the extensibility of Xperience, integrations with third-party services like Jira are just a couple lines of code away. However, if you’re looking for a ready-to-go, no-code solution to integrate Jira with your website, we’ve got you covered! Our native Zapier application, and a new set of Xperience tools, will help you manage Jira issues in a pinch- no coding required!

Adding support for commenting and ratings on your website is a great way to encourage your visitors to engage with you and other users. With the release of Kentico Xperience 13 Refresh 4, it’s never been easier. Now, there’s no need to worry about code— just drag-and-drop our new widget onto your pages and comment on!

Static site generators, which seem to have become more and more popular recently, could be one of the ways of increasing Kentico Xperience's performance, but performance is just one of many benefits. We can often read articles stating that “static sites are not for everyone”. In this article, we will investigate whether this is true in the context of Kentico Xperience. This article aims to show how static site generators could be integrated with Kentico Xperience and what the best use cases are.

By default, there are some restrictions on user names when registering in an MVC project. If you want to customize user name and password formats, a small code change is necessary.

Unit testing your code is a great way to ensure that everything’s working properly under different scenarios. Creating custom macros is a popular way to extend Kentico’s capabilities, but as this code is placed within the content of your site and only evaluated when it’s rendered, how can you test the code?

So you’ve got a flashy new Kentico 12 MVC project - congratulations! But wait... where are the visitors? Your site’s SEO has a lot to do with how successful it will become, and here we’ll discuss some SEO basics as they apply to MVC and Kentico.

In a previous article, we learned how to build a basic MVC widget. However, there are more advanced tools in Kentico 12 that can make life even easier for your content editors. Let's recreate a more complex Portal Engine widget in MVC while making it as simple as possible for your editors to configure!

In this short technical article, I will show you some code that you can use to print out the content tree in its hierarchical order using our API. This code is only an example and has not been fully tested by Kentico. Please adjust the code as needed and only use it after testing in a secure environment.

Kentico 11 introduces native Azure Search integration with a variety of customization options. In this article, we’ll learn how to change the data type of our Azure search fields.

At some point, you may need a script that dynamically checks-in all checked-out objects. For Kentico 11 instances, this script should do the trick!

This new Kentico 10 module provides an interface for creating custom responses to return data from the database in an AJAX request.

Installation packages create an easy way for developers to install, update, and uninstall your custom module, but they can take a bit of configuration before they’re ready to ship. This article should clarify the necessary steps to finalize your installation package.

Bootstrap is a popular LESS/Sass-based CSS library for creating responsive websites. This article will go over how to begin using Bootstrap in your Kentico site.

This new Kentico 9 module provides an easy interface for managing your Web Analytics data.

In some unique cases, you may want to validate certain form fields using javascript rather than postback. Let’s find out how to do that!

In this article we will learn how to configure map options including styles and UI elements