Files, Images and Video

Easily Publish Documents, Images and Video

With Kentico CMS, you can easily manage and publish Word, PDF, PPT, images, movies, Flash and even YouTube video and make your website more attractive.

Leverage the Power of Content Repository for Files

With Kentico CMS, you can manage uploaded files as any other document in the content repository and leverage powerful features, such as:

Workflow
Versioning with rollback, archiving and restore from the recycle bin
Granular Permissions
Multilingual support
Full-text search in files
Taxonomy - tags and categories
SEO-friendly URLs that ensure that uploaded files can be indexed by Google and other search engines

Depending on the file usage, you can choose to store files in the database, on the server disk or both. For faster delivery, you can serve files directly from the disk or even cache the in server memory.

Easily Manage Huge Media Libraries

If you need to manage a large number of media files, such as extensive photo gallleries, or large files, such as videos or large files for download from your website, you can store them in the Media Libraries. Such files are stored only on the disk with metadata stored in the database and they can be accessed through a direct URL address.

Inserting and Resizing Images

Inserting an image is easy as clicking one button and choosing the file on your disk - no additional steps required. Or you can choose an existing image from the content repository, media library or external website.

Kentico CMS takes care of image resizing so that your content administrators cannot publish huge files that would lead to slow loading pages. You can specify maximum size for uploaded files and Kentico CMS automatically resizes them during the upload.

If you need to resize the image in the text, you just change its width/height and Kentico CMS automatically resizes the image to the given size and reduces file size instead of using the huge original file. It also stores the resized versions on the disk so that it doesn't have to resize it again next time someone displays the image.

Inserting Movies and YouTube Video

With Kentico CMS, you can also easily insert movies into the text or even YouTube Video and make your content more engaging.

Displaying Media Galleries

Kentico CMS gives you plenty of options how to display galleries of images or other media files - you can use lightbox gallery, image rotators and other built-in webpart or you can easily integrate third-party jQuery libraries for displaying media files with various effects.

You can use custom media players based on Flash or Silverlight to display video or music.

Document Attachments

When you insert an image into the text or upload file into a document field (e.g. a "Press Release for download" in news items), the file is bound with given document and its life cycle. It means that it uses its versioning, workflow, security settings and other features, rather than being stored separately. It highly simplifies the management of files that are part of some document and makes it easier for content administrators to keep website content consistent.

Document Libraries

Document Libraries allow you to manage files directly from the website, which suits perfectly the needs of intranet, extranet or community sites that need to enable sharing of documents among site visitors.

Learn more about Document Management in Kentico CMS

WebDAV Support for Direct Editing in Microsoft Office

Kentico CMS supports WebDAV protocol out-of-the-box which allows you to open and edit Microsoft Office files (Word, Excel, Powerpoint and others) directly from your browser and then save them back directly from the application.

Learn more about WebDAV support in Kentico CMS

Browser-based Image Editor

Kentico CMS comes with browser-based image editor that allows content administrators to perform basic image modifications, such as resize, rotation or grayscale directly from the browser, without using a specialized application.

Learn more about Image Editor in Kentico CMS