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Liferay sites are customizable spaces for building personalized digital experiences. Each site includes applications for creating content, designing pages, and more. With these features, you can bring your custom solutions to life, whether intranets, public sites, customer portals, or e-commerce storefronts. In fact, you can leverage Liferay's multi-site capabilities to create multiple such sites in the same Liferay instance.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Designing and Displaying Reusable Navigation Menus
Navigation menus for a site are typically tied strictly to a site's page hierarchy and structure. The Navigation Menus feature in Liferay is powerful because it enables you to create navigation...
Published Date: Aug 15, 2024 6:33 PM
Building a Reusable and Dynamic Accordion With Fragments
Liferay Fragments are reusable, customizable web elements that serve as building blocks for a page. They consist of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to provide structure, style, and functionality to your...
Published Date: Aug 19, 2024 4:54 PM
Alerts and Announcements
Official Documentation
Alerts and Announcements Use the Alerts or the Announcements widgets to broadcast important information. Alerts are for high-priority information (e.g. planned downtime alerts, security alerts,...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:48 PM
Calendar
Official Documentation
Calendar The Calendar widget stores and shares scheduled events. It's a personal planner for individual users, a shared calendar for an entire site, or both at the same time. In addition to...
Published Date: May 13, 2024 7:54 PM
Exporting/Importing Calendar Data
Official Documentation
Exporting/Importing Calendar Data You can export and import calendar data as Liferay Archive (LAR) files. Data can only be ported between installations of the same version. Use the widget...
Published Date: May 13, 2024 7:54 PM
Configuring the Calendar Widget
Official Documentation
Configuring the Calendar Widget Use the Calendar widget configuration options to tailor the display and functionality of your calendar. From choosing the time format and default view to setting the...
Published Date: May 13, 2024 7:54 PM
Mapping Calendar Event Fields to Display Page Templates
Official Documentation
Mapping Calendar Event Fields to Display Page Templates You can customize and display calendar event information by mapping calendar fields to display page templates. Highlight certain fields such...
Published Date: May 13, 2024 7:54 PM
Using the Calendar Widget
Official Documentation
Using the Calendar Widget The calendar widget displays a small monthly calendar showing an overview of upcoming events. A larger area shows the Scheduler, a more detailed calendar with several...
Published Date: May 13, 2024 7:54 PM
Social Tools
Official Documentation
Social Tools Social tools play a vital role in fostering engagement, collaboration, and interaction within digital environments. They can enhance user experiences and facilitate connections....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:49 PM
Using the Contacts Center Widget
Official Documentation
Using the Contacts Center Widget With the Contacts Center widget, users can form two connection types: Connect and Follow. Connected users can see each other's activities in their private...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:49 PM
Using the Activities Widget
Official Documentation
Using the Activities Widget The Activities widget is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129 and is scheduled for removal in a future release. The Activities widget is used to track...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:49 PM
Using the Ratings System
Official Documentation
Using the Ratings System With Liferay DXP's asset framework, users can use a content rating system and rate or value content. Many of DXP's built-in content types have ratings enabled by default. ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:49 PM
Bundling and Installing Resources into Your Theme via Themelets
Official Documentation
Bundling and Installing Resources into Your Theme via Themelets Themelets are small, modular pieces of code that you can reuse in multiple themes. Unlike themes themselves, themelets may only...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Bundling Independent UI Resources via Theme Contributors
Official Documentation
Bundling Independent UI Resources via Theme Contributors Theme contributors are modules that contain CSS and JavaScript resources and apply them to every page. They are independent from specific...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Embedding Widgets Using Templates
Official Documentation
Embedding Widgets Using Templates You can embed a widget in your theme to make it available on all pages using the chosen template file. When you are embedding a widget, you will need to reference...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Themes
Official Documentation
Themes Themes customize the default look and feel of your site. You can define the style and visual identity of your brand or label across your whole site. You can use a theme CSS client...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:48 AM
Bundling Resources
Official Documentation
Bundling Resources
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Bundling a Thumbnail Preview into Your Theme
Official Documentation
Bundling a Thumbnail Preview into Your Theme A theme's thumbnail is the visual representation of how the theme looks when it is applied to a Site. The thumbnail is shown in the theme selection menu...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Setting Up an Environment and Creating a Theme
Official Documentation
Setting Up an Environment and Creating a Theme Creating a theme is the first step in theme development. Once you have your own theme, you can deploy it to your Liferay DXP instance, and use it for...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Upgrading a Theme
Official Documentation
Upgrading a Theme Themes developed for previous versions of Liferay DXP must be upgraded in order to be deployed to a new version. The gulp upgrade task updates Liferay version references and theme...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM