--- schema_version: "1" id: 576ba1b7ed57405f7141c7f5aff1b1b6887f66f14f416bcad9cc4d5d451b1b9a title: What Is the Enhanced Sites and Content Platform? collection: admin version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/admin/current/en-us/experience/264-0-0/exp_cloud_enhanced.md canonical_url: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.exp_cloud_enhanced.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 source_site: help.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: 66e0f98fd5b8b3fa8dbf61bbe8169d758e222c63ab7dd395e9dbfb0e69557529 description: The enhanced sites and content platform is a flexible new system that brings together Salesforce CMS and Lightning Web Runtime (LWR) sites. From Winter ’23, enhanced LWR sites and enhanced CMS workspaces that you create are hosted together on this redesigned platform, which offers partial deployment, improved content management, and expression-based visibility. products: - Experiences release: "264" --- # What Is the Enhanced Sites and Content Platform? The enhanced sites and content platform is a flexible new system that brings together Salesforce CMS and Lightning Web Runtime (LWR) sites. From Winter ’23, enhanced LWR sites and enhanced CMS workspaces that you create are hosted together on this redesigned platform, which offers partial deployment, improved content management, and expression-based visibility. ### Required Editions
Available in: Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience
Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions
Applies to: LWR sites
![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/images/icon_note.png) Note To clarify which features apply where, we use the terms enhanced LWR sites and enhanced CMS workspaces to refer to LWR sites and CMS workspaces on the new platform. ## What Are Enhanced LWR Sites? Enhanced LWR sites include several features that are available only on the enhanced platform. - [Partial deployment](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.networks_migrate_changesets_partial.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use change sets to move individual Experience Cloud components and content between related orgs that have a deployment connection, such as your sandbox and production orgs. Create and test changes in your test environment, and then migrate only those changes to production when they’re ready."): Use change sets to move individual site components and content between related orgs that have a deployment connection, such as your sandbox and production orgs. Or programmatically deploy partial site content with the DigitalExperienceBundle and DigitalExperienceConfig Metadata API types. - [Expression-based visibility and variations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.exp_cloud_expression_based_visibility.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "With Expression-Based Visibility, you can create a set of rules that dictate when and to whom your components in your enhanced LWR sites appear. Choose visibility settings based on User and Product object fields such as location, language, buyer groups, and more. Creating visibility conditions based on expressions improves the agility of your site."): Create several versions of the same component, and then use visibility rules to determine who sees what. - Component-specific Style tab: Apply custom CSS from a component’s Style tab. The CSS Class property, available on all Lightning web components in enhanced LWR sites, gives CSS-savvy site builders more granular control over the style of each component. - [Site content search](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.networks_search_site.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "In enhanced LWR sites, visitors can search for CMS content published from enhanced CMS workspaces. Visitors can also search for content within the Rich Content Editor and HTML Editor components, as well as within page title metadata. Use the Search Bar and Results Layout components to add the search functionality to your enhanced LWR site."): Use the Search Bar and Results Layout components to add search functionality to your site. Site visitors can find content contained in Rich Content Editor and HTML Editor components, as well as within page title metadata. And because everything runs together on our consolidated platform, site search results can include content that you share from an enhanced CMS workspace. - [Data Cloud integration](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.exp_cloud_data_cloud.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "To provide customers the personalized, individual experiences they now expect, you need detailed insights about your users and how you can best engage with them. By connecting your enhanced LWR sites to Data Cloud, you can capture and send user interaction data, such as clicks, scrolls, and product interactions, to Data Cloud. From there, you can organize your data and use it to create unified profiles, build robust site analytics, personalize your sites, generate recommendations, and discover new ways to use AI."): Connect enhanced LWR sites to Data Cloud for a complete understanding of who’s visiting your site and how you can best engage with them. - [Google Analytics 4](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.networks_google_analytics_4.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "For insights into page visits and user engagement, add Google Analytics 4 to your enhanced LWR site from Experience Builder."): Gain insights into page visits and user engagement. ## What Are Enhanced CMS Workspaces and Channels? Create and publish content more easily in a simplified user interface, and take advantage of several features that are available only with enhanced CMS workspaces and channels, including: - Workspace sharing: Save time and space when you share content across enhanced CMS workspaces, and reuse content between workspaces without duplicating records. - Workflows and approvals: With role-based workflows, content creators can request an approval, translation, or review directly from relevant users. - Content variants and collections: Create translated content variants and manual collections to help put the right content in front of the right audience. - Sidebar extensions: Add extensions for spell checkers and other productivity-enhancing tools to the sidebar in the CMS content editor. - New APIs: Use APIs to create new content and retrieve published content. ## How Do I Start Using the New Platform? From Winter ’23, the enhanced sites and content platform is automatically enabled. So any new sites that you create by using LWR templates are hosted on this new platform. Similarly, any CMS workspaces that you create run on the redesigned system and are enhanced workspaces by default. Older LWR sites can’t take advantage of the platform’s new features and capabilities. But as part of the move to the enhanced platform, you can upgrade your existing LWR sites to enhanced LWR sites and gain access to those features. You can also publish content from an enhanced CMS workspace or a non-enhanced workspace to any LWR, enhanced LWR, or Aura site, making it easier than ever to transition to the new platform. ## How Can I Tell When a Site or Workspace Is Enhanced? In the Digital Experiences app, you can see an ![Enhanced badge](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/communities/images/enhanced_icon.png) badge beside workspaces and sites that are hosted on the new platform. ![Digital Experiences app Home page](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/communities/images/enhanced_cmshome.png) Similarly, we added this information to the list of sites in Setup under Digital Experiences. ![All Sites list](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/communities/images/enhancedsites.png) And when you create an LWR site, you can see that it’s being created on the enhanced sites and content platform. ![Site creation wizard](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-experience-communities-264-0-0-production-enus/bf7df212-91a1-4fa3-a007-4d6f3e3b470b/communities/images/enhanced_sites.png) - **[Upgrade to Enhanced LWR Sites](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.exp_cloud_enhanced_upgrade.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Upgrade existing LWR sites to enhanced LWR sites to take advantage of the latest platform features, including partial deployment, site content search, and expression-based visibility. - **[Update Your LWR Site URL to Remove /s](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.exp_cloud_enhanced_url.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Some older, non-enhanced LWR sites include /s at the end of the site’s base URL, making it difficult to achieve a completely custom site URL. You can remove this unwanted element and switch from https://mycustomdomain.com/s to https://mycustomdomain.com. Removing /s is also a prerequisite when you upgrade to an enhanced LWR site. #### See Also - [Learn About Experience Cloud Frameworks and Templates](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.exp_cloud_plan_frameworks.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Select a framework and template as part of your site planning. The choices you make at the beginning of your site creation process have long-term downstream implications. In particular, consider your business objectives, your technical know-how, and the costs associated with each.") - [Experience Cloud Glossary](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.exp_cloud_basics_glossary.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Here are definitions to some key terms and concepts related to Experience Cloud.")