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Liferay’s Content Management System (CMS) offers user-friendly applications for creating, editing, publishing, and managing your site’s content.

Liferay empowers you to create and manage web content effectively. Easily create web content, upload documents, and leverage a suite of tools to administer and optimize your content. These tools include a user-friendly Content Dashboard UI, built-in Translation capabilities, and Content Performance insights.

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Creating Content Structures
Official Documentation
Creating Content Structures [Beta Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) Liferay DXP 2025.Q4+ Currently, this...
About the Page Audit Tool
Official Documentation
About the Page Audit Tool The Page Audit tool displays performance-related information about the server render time, component type, component's origin, and cache status as well as warning messages...
Creating Assets and Folders
Official Documentation
Creating Assets and Folders [Beta Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) Liferay DXP 2025.Q4+ Currently, this...
Managing Deleted Entries in The Content Management System
Official Documentation
Managing Deleted Entries in The Content Management System [Beta Feature](../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) Liferay DXP...
Content Management System Permissions Reference
Official Documentation
Content Management System Permissions Reference [Beta Feature](../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) Liferay DXP 2025.Q4+ ...
Assets
Official Documentation
Assets [Beta Feature](../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) Liferay DXP 2025.Q4+ Currently, this feature is behind a beta...
Managing Permissions in the Content Management System
Official Documentation
Managing Permissions in the Content Management System [Beta Feature](../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) Liferay DXP 2025.Q4+ ...
Page Performance and Accessibility
Official Documentation
Page Performance and Accessibility With page performance and accessibility tools, you can monitor and improve your site’s content quality, loading speed, and compliance with SEO and accessibility...
About the Content Performance Tool
Official Documentation
About the Content Performance Tool Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ The Content Performance tool is a global application for analyzing performance metrics of your content, like traffic acquisition channels...
Analyze Content Metrics Using the Content Performance Tool
Official Documentation
Analyze Content Metrics Using the Content Performance Tool Available 7.3+ Some Content Performance options are only available starting with Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4. You can use the Content...
Analyze SEO and Accessibility on Pages
Official Documentation
Analyze SEO and Accessibility on Pages Starting with Liferay DXP 7.4, you can use the Page Audit tool to examine your pages' SEO and accessibility. The Page Audit tool uses the Google PageSpeed...
Questions Widget
Official Documentation
Questions Widget Available: Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ The Questions widget is a new UI skin for the Message Boards widget, focused on presenting a question-and-answer format. With the Questions...
Configuring the Questions Widget
Official Documentation
Configuring the Questions Widget Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ There are two primary methods for configuring the Questions widget: directly through the widget configuration and through the System...
Using the Questions Widget
Official Documentation
Using the Questions Widget With the Questions widget, users can ask questions, provide answers, and engage in discussions within a site. By organizing topics and enabling collaborative answers, it...
Recycle Bin Overview
Official Documentation
Recycle Bin Overview An integrated recycle bin can temporarily store content and data you want to remove from your instance before making that removal permanent. By default, the recycle bin is...
Using the Recycle Bin
Official Documentation
Using the Recycle Bin The recycle bin functionality is available for the following assets: Blogs Bookmarks Documents and Media Folders Message Boards (and attachments) Web Content Wiki...
Tags and Categories
Official Documentation
Tags and Categories Use tags and categories to organize content and improve search and navigation across your sites. Categories provide a structured way to group related assets using vocabularies...
Auto-Tagging
Official Documentation
Auto-Tagging If you have a lot of content that's untagged, you can help your users find that content more easily by auto-tagging it. Liferay can use a local or cloud-based service to analyze and...
Auto-Tagging Assets
Official Documentation
Auto-Tagging Assets You can manually tag most assets, such as Message Boards, Blogs, Documents, Images, and Web Content Articles. You can tag certain assets, however, automatically when they are...
Recycle Bin
Official Documentation
Recycle Bin The recycle bin provides a safeguard for content management by temporarily storing deleted assets before they are removed permanently. When enabled, recyclable assets—such as documents,...
Configuring the Recycle Bin
Official Documentation
Configuring the Recycle Bin The Recycle Bin supports instance-wide scope or site-specific scope. By default, the Recycle Bin is enabled instance-wide. You can disable the recycle bin for a...
Auto-Tagging Images
Official Documentation
Auto-Tagging Images Once asset auto-tagging has been enabled, you can also enable image auto-tagging. Image auto-tagging tags images uploaded to the Documents and Media Library. Currently, tags...
Configuring Asset Auto-Tagging
Official Documentation
Configuring Asset Auto-Tagging Tagging assets is a great way to organize content. Typically, the content creator manually applies tags during creation, but you can configure Liferay to tag content...
Organizing Content with Categories and Tags
Official Documentation
Organizing Content with Categories and Tags Categories and tags are two essential tools for helping users find content through search or navigation. Using categories, you can group similar assets...
Defining Categories and Vocabularies for Content
Official Documentation
Defining Categories and Vocabularies for Content Using categories, you can group similar assets and organize your content. Along with tags, categories help people find relevant information through...
Using Third Parties for Translation
Official Documentation
Using Third Parties for Translation Available Liferay 7.4 U15+ and GA15+ Liferay can integrate with the following service APIs to generate automatic translations of content pages and web content. ...
Geolocating Assets
Official Documentation
Geolocating Assets Geolocation adds the geographic coordinates where an asset was created as metadata to an asset. This feature is provided as an optional field which can be included in a Web...
Translating Web Content
Official Documentation
Translating Web Content Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ Liferay provides integrated tools for translating web content articles, so you can create engaging, localized content for your global users. With...
Enabling Workflows for Translations
Official Documentation
Enabling Workflows for Translations You can enable a custom workflow for translation processes to guide the review and publishing process. Once you've defined your custom workflow, follow these...
Translating Pages and Content
Official Documentation
Translating Pages and Content Liferay provides integrated tools for translating both Web Content and Content Page experiences. With these tools you can manually translate text in a side-by-side...
Session Property Vocabularies
Official Documentation
Session Property Vocabularies Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ With a Session Property Vocabulary, you can create session-based Segment properties using predefined values. This option is useful when you...
Tagging Content and Managing Tags
Official Documentation
Tagging Content and Managing Tags Tags are keywords you can use to organize your assets and describe specific information about their content. Tags tell website visitors what the content is about...
Managing Translation Permissions
Official Documentation
Managing Translation Permissions The required permissions for translating content pages and web content depend on the translation method: Manual translation requires either Update permissions...
Web Content
Official Documentation
Web Content You can create, manage, and publish various content types seamlessly through Liferay's robust content management system. Discover how to craft compelling web content articles tailored...
Translating Content Pages
Official Documentation
Translating Content Pages Liferay 7.4 U15+ and GA15+ Liferay provides integrated tools for translating content pages, so you can create engaging, localized experiences for your global users. With...
Assigning Permissions to Web Content Articles
Official Documentation
Assigning Permissions to Web Content Articles With Liferay's permissions framework, you can control which users can create, view, and manage web content articles. You can set permissions for...
Web Content Articles
Official Documentation
Web Content Articles Web content articles are dynamic content entries that can be created, edited, and managed through Liferay’s built-in content management system (CMS). You can use web content...
Filtering and Sorting Web Content Articles
Official Documentation
Filtering and Sorting Web Content Articles The web content application shows a list of all the web content articles you can access under the Web Content tab. The filtering and sorting options help...
Mapping Repeatable Fields to Fragments
Official Documentation
Mapping Repeatable Fields to Fragments Liferay DXP 2024.Q3+/Portal GA125+ When creating fields on web content structures, you can make them repeatable. You can then map these fields to fragments...
Managing Web Content Structures
Official Documentation
Managing Web Content Structures You can manage structures from the structures page: Open the Site Menu (Site Menu) and go to Content & Data → Web Content. Select the Structures tab. Open the...
Creating Web Content Structures
Official Documentation
Creating Web Content Structures Create web content structures to serve as building blocks for web content articles and determine the information you can include when writing them. To create a web...
Using Expiration and Review Dates in Web Content
Official Documentation
Using Expiration and Review Dates in Web Content Available: Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4+ You can set expiration and review dates for web content articles to manage time-sensitive content. When enabled,...
Generating Text Content Using AI
Official Documentation
Generating Text Content Using AI Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA98+ Web content provides integration with OpenAI's ChatGPT engine using the AI Creator tool. With an OpenAI API key configured for...
Assigning Permissions to Web Content Structures and Templates
Official Documentation
Assigning Permissions to Web Content Structures and Templates Web content structures and templates provide direct access to Liferay's API. To avoid unauthorized or unintended access to Liferay DXP...
Configuring Web Content Structure Fields
Official Documentation
Configuring Web Content Structure Fields You can edit web content structure fields and their properties: Open the Site Menu (Site Menu) and go to Content & Data → Web Content. Select the...
Managing Web Content Articles
Official Documentation
Managing Web Content Articles Once you've added articles to your web content library, you can manage them via the web content UI. To access management actions for an article, click its Actions...
Web Content Structures with Data Engine
Official Documentation
Web Content Structures with Data Engine Beginning with Liferay 7.4, web content structures were migrated from using Dynamic Data Mapping (DDM) to Data Engine (DE) as the backend framework for...
Creating Web Content Articles
Official Documentation
Creating Web Content Articles When you have a lot of content to publish on your site, Liferay's content management system helps you with practical and essential ways to manage it. Web content...
Web Content Structures
Official Documentation
Web Content Structures Web content structures are the building blocks for web content articles. They determine the information you can include when writing web content. Structures provide these key...
Previewing Web Content Articles
Official Documentation
Previewing Web Content Articles After creating a web content article, you can preview it using the selected default template or display page template before publishing, so you can make adjustments...
Creating Web Content Templates
Official Documentation
Creating Web Content Templates Web content templates use the FreeMarker Template Language (FTL) to determine how content fields are rendered on a page. Each template can be associated with a web...
Web Content Templates
Official Documentation
Web Content Templates With Web Content Templates, you can define how content appears, ensuring that your web content aligns with your brand and functional requirements. Learn how to create...
Embedding Widgets in Web Content Templates
Official Documentation
Embedding Widgets in Web Content Templates You can embed core or custom widgets, instanceable or not, in web content templates. Below is an example of embedding a web content widget in FreeMarker:
Using Taglibs in Web Content Templates
Official Documentation
Using Taglibs in Web Content Templates Liferay's taglibs are accessible when developing templates in FreeMarker. There is no need to instantiate these taglibs within your FreeMarker template;...
Mapping Web Content Templates to Fragments
Official Documentation
Mapping Web Content Templates to Fragments By default, you can map web content structure fields holding a single value (such as date, numeric, image, number, or text) to fragments. For multi-value...
Assets Analytics
Official Documentation
Assets Analytics Assets are individual pieces of content that exist on site pages in your Liferay Analytics Cloud data sources. Assets are Content residing on a page. Registered, tracked, and...
Events Descriptions
Official Documentation
Events Descriptions Below are the various events that can be analyzed in the events analysis tool. Blog Clicked This is when a user clicks on an element within the blogs application. See Blogs...
Events Analytics
Official Documentation
Events Analytics As individuals visit and interact with your site, Analytics Cloud tracks these events. Many of these events that take place on your Liferay DXP instance are set up to be tracked...
Tracking Events
Official Documentation
Tracking Events Analytics Cloud tracks interactions with published content on your Liferay DXP site automatically. When you must capture additional or custom interactions, you can track events by...
Blogs Analytics
Official Documentation
Blogs Analytics Blogs entries are important content on websites. They attract readers who return to view new blog posts and interact in discussion. Analytics Cloud gives you important insights...