Kehren Development Posts

Migrating a Split Kentico Database to Xperience by Kentico

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:00:00 GMT

Are you prepping to migrate to Xperience by Kentico using the Migration Toolkit? Do you have your Contact Management database separated from the CMS database? If so, this is for you! We'll show you how to merge your database back and overcome a few problem areas we experienced.

Implementing Authentication in Kentico Xperience 13

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 03:11:00 GMT

In this article you'll learn how to quickly implement authentication for your Kentico Xperience 13 .NET Core 6 site by utilizing out-of-the-box functionality within Kentico Xperience and writing a bit of code.

Custom Form Builder Output for MVC with Xperience

Tue, 03 Nov 2020 16:00:00 GMT

Xperience by Kentico has a very powerful form builder that allows you to dynamically build forms to collect data from your website visitors. This post will take a deeper look into how we can customize the output of those forms since we're not able to use the custom layout option.

Azure Deployment Failure with Xperience by Kentico and Bitbucket

Fri, 29 May 2020 02:00:00 GMT

Xperience by Kentico and Microsoft Azure are very powerful together. When some of the out of the box features don't work, it can cause a lot of problems, for a long time. Read on to find out what we did to resolve a build issue in an Azure Web App connected to Bitbucket.

Kentico Smart Search with Dates Spanning Multiple Days

Wed, 02 May 2018 14:30:00 GMT

Having worked with Kentico since version 4 I've found many things just come easy now. That is, with the exception of the Lucene syntax used in Kentico's Smart Search. I've heard many people talk about looking into the Lucene data and finding what's actually in there but until a few weeks ago, I've never done it as I've always been able to work through it. Read more to find out how I've resolved an ever mind blowing problem with dates in Kentico's Smart Search.

Version History Validation in Kentico Upgrades

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 01:00:00 GMT

Ever had random errors show up when performing an upgrade? Maybe the upgrade won't succeed or it succeeds but gives you some random errors later on? Read on to find out what problems I experienced and how I found the root cause to a "successful" upgrade which actually failed miserably.

Security and Folder Permissions in Kentico

Tue, 06 Jun 2017 13:25:00 GMT

Ensuring your Kentico instance is setup properly starts with the installation and configuration of your site on your local machine and the server(s). To fully embrace the functionality of Kentico you need to set permissions properly on folders within the Kentico install. This article will discuss more about what folders need what permissions and more importantly, why.

Front end and Back end Tools with Kentico

Wed, 31 May 2017 04:00:00 GMT

Being a back-end developer, it's not too often we have to deal with front-end developer tools. With so many changes on how websites are developed integration with FED and BED tools really need to be discussed for us hard-core BED. Recently, I've had to set this up and wanted to share my findings and experience.

Unexpected Network Error in Azure with Kentico

Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:35:14 GMT

More and more of our clients are running their websites in the cloud. Some are harder to convince to make this leap and some just want to go all in. Far too often there are issues that come up which cause clients to rethink their move. We're here to help with those shaky times and make the transition as smooth as possible. But there are going to be times when you just throw your hands up in the air and scream. This, was one of those times.

Upgrading to Kentico 10

Fri, 23 Dec 2016 15:00:00 GMT

Kentico 10 was recently released and we've had the joy of upgrading a few sites to Kentico 10 already. Here I'm going to share our experience with you all and some of the easy pieces to the upgrade and some not so easy pieces and recommendations when upgrading your site.

Kentico Navigation Options Tip

Tue, 06 Sep 2016 14:00:00 GMT

This quick tip will show you how to enable your transformation to take full advantage of Kentico's navigation options.

Improve Your Kentico Website Performance

Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:00:00 GMT

Kentico offers many settings, configurations and suggestions on how to improve your websites performance. Configuring Kentico correctly, you can realy optimize your website BUT there are still a few items which are not resolved like combining scripts and stylesheets into a single request. In this post I'll share my experience implenting a module created by Kentico Gold Partner PMC-Digital which combines scripts and stylesheets into a single request and caches them for you.

Problems with Azure and Kentico

Sun, 29 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Over the last few months we've been working through some enhanvements and bugs with one of our clients and during some of the research on the bugs we found some issues with how the environment was setup. Having only worked with Azure Web Apps a few times, and each time was significantly different, I wanted to share the problems and solutions along with best practices to setup your Kentico instance in Azure Web Apps for storing your files in Azure and Blob storage.

Clean up Your Kentico Install

Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:00:00 GMT

You've installed Kentico, have your site up and running locally and now you need to deploy it. You look in your file system and see there are thousands upon thousands of files in the root directory. Yes, Kentico is a large CMS and in order to run it you do need a lot of files but what I'll show you today is how to clean up your installation for deployment.

Follow-Up Contacts and SSL in Kentico EMS

Fri, 04 Mar 2016 14:00:00 GMT

In my previous post I talked about an issue with enabling SSL and tracking Contacts in Kentico. The short story was simply disabling monitoring of on-line users. Now a new issue has come up, I have thousands of contacts I need to clean up.

Throwback Thursday Upgrading Kentico 7

Thu, 04 Feb 2016 16:30:00 GMT

It's Thursday somewhere right? Take advantage of this throwback Thursday tip when upgrading your Kentico 7 (or even 6) instance to newer versions.

Quick Tip on Contacts and SSL in Kentico

Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:15:00 GMT

Here's a quick tip on how to control your contacts when using SSL, monitering online users and a load balancer.

Starting Off With a Bang

Mon, 18 Jan 2016 17:40:00 GMT

2016 has started off with a bang! It's shaping up to be the best year of Kehren Development's and looking forward to what it has to bring!

Top 6 Kentico Connection Rules

Mon, 21 Dec 2015 17:15:00 GMT

Many Kentico gurus have already provided some great information on what they learned, how they plan to use new features and what all the new Kentico features are in version 9 which is why I'm taking a different approach with this post. My goal is to focus on building the importance on attending Kentico Connections and speaking to how tightly knit the developer, partner and marketing communities are. Kentico has been having the annual Connection event since 2011. I attended my first Kenico Connection in 2012 in Denver, CO. Little did I know this would change my life forever.

Kentico Connections Orlando

Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:30:00 GMT

This year I took an opportunity to not only be an attendee at Kentico Connections but be a presenter and talk about some things I've learned about upgrading Kentico, more specifically to v9.

Connecting Disqus Comments with Kentico

Wed, 21 Oct 2015 14:30:00 GMT

Kentico MVP Brian McKeiver (@mcbeev) covered this subject in his post a while back. I'd like to suppliment his posts with what I learned when following his instructions to implement Disqus on my Kentico site. The differences or changes aren't substantial but they are worth mentioning. So I'm unofficially naming this post "Part 2 1/4" of How to Connect Disqus Comments to Kentico EMS Activity Tracking.

Using the MacroResolver API with Email Templates

Sun, 18 Oct 2015 17:00:00 GMT

Lately I've had several requests to create global event handlers to send emails when specific items happen. In v7 I had difficulties getting macros to resolve in email templates and it didn't get any better in version 8. This week, I finally sat down, did some research, wrote a test program and came up with the solution and thought I'd share with all of you.

Display Related Documents in Kentico Transformations

Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:00:00 GMT

Transformations are very powerful tools within Kentico. Knowing how to take them to the next level requires some knowledge of the transformation as well as the controls you plan to use within the transformation. Today I'll show you how I display related documents within a transformation.

Recurring Events in a Multi-Tenancy Kentico Environment

Tue, 28 Jul 2015 16:30:00 GMT

Previously I showed you How to Create a Recurring Event in Kentico. One of Kentico's features I forgot to take into consideration is multiple sites on one code instanace or multi-tenancy. Today I'll show you a couple code modifications and additions you can make to ensure only the sites you want to have access to this feature, get it.

Secure Your Kentico Site, Content and Objects From Being Exported

Tue, 26 May 2015 16:00:00 GMT

Kentico offers some great tools to import and export your site from one server to another. But have you ever had a need to ensure this didn't happen? Come take a look at why you'd want to do this and more importantly how.

First Goal of the Year DONE I'm A Kentico MVP

Tue, 05 May 2015 15:00:00 GMT

Back in December 2014 when I visited Kentico's headquarters in beautiful Brno Czech Republic several of the Kentico staff asked me what my goals for 2015 were. Number 1 on my list was to become a Kentico MVP. Well a few months into 2015, I've achieved my first goal!

How To: Using Attachments in Page Types and Transformations

Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:00:00 GMT

Creating your own custom Page Types is very easy to do BUT when you need some additional funtionality out of it, sometimes it's a bit harder and you can't always find what you're looking for in the documentation. What I'll demonstrate here is an alternative way to add Attachments to your Page Type and then display those attachments in your transformation.

How To: Create a Recurring Event in Kentico

Mon, 02 Mar 2015 16:00:00 GMT

Ever had a need to create a recurring event? Or how about repeat any page type a specific number of times? It's pretty common and this post will give an example of how to go about this.

5 Kentico Best Practices To Follow

Thu, 19 Feb 2015 03:30:00 GMT

As a developer who is passionate about Kentico CMS I'm often asked by clients, fellow Kentico Developers and Partners to look over their sites and provide suggestions on improvements that could be made to their sites. These are the my 5 Best Practices to follow on every Kentico site.

Kentico DevNet Hero!

Mon, 29 Dec 2014 04:39:53 GMT

I'm humbled by this recognition. It's truly a honor to be called the Kentico DevNet Hero for 2014! Take a look and read about my accomplishments and the great time I had in the Czech Republic.