Capability

Sites

Search Bar

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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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 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
Creating Your First Site
Official Documentation
Creating Your First Site Sites are collections of pages that contain and display content. This article walks through creating a new Site based on an existing out-of-the-box template. Creating a...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Changing Your Site's Appearance
Official Documentation
Changing Your Site's Appearance Liferay has many ways to customize your site's appearance. Your site's favicon and theme are two of the first elements you may want to change. Themes set a default...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Site APIs
Official Documentation
Site APIs Use Liferay’s REST APIs to manage site elements programmatically. This guide introduces the Navigation Menu API and shows how to create, retrieve, update, and delete navigation menus...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Navigation Menu API Basics
Official Documentation
Navigation Menu API Basics Liferay's REST APIs provide services for Liferay's navigation menus. You can create and edit navigation menus with the API. Start by seeing an example of adding a new...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 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 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
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
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
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
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
Bundling Resources
Official Documentation
Bundling Resources
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Displaying Object Entries
Official Documentation
Displaying Object Entries Liferay 7.4+ You can display object entries dynamically with Liferay's page building features. For example, collection displays can show a list of entries while display...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Viewing the Analytics Dashboard
Official Documentation
Viewing the Analytics Dashboard After syncing data, Analytics Cloud automatically begins tracking site visitors and how they interact with your content. The following tools are available for...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Individuals Dashboard
Official Documentation
Individuals Dashboard The Individuals dashboard provides a broad range of analytics data about your visitors and how they interact with your Site. To view the dashboard, Click Individuals in...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Touchpoints
Official Documentation
Touchpoints Touchpoints reflect the many different ways your users and customers interact with your brand. Analytics Cloud presents a broad range of analytics data that combines traditional page...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Downloading Reports
Official Documentation
Downloading Reports In addition to inviting team members to your Analytics Cloud workspace, you can share insights with your team by downloading reports. Downloadable PDF reports are available for...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Individual Profiles
Official Documentation
Individual Profiles Many individuals visit your sites. Learning who they are and their activities and interests helps you improve business with them. Individual profiles help your Sales, Customer...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Metrics Description
Official Documentation
Metrics Description See the description of various metrics used by Analytics Cloud and how they are calculated. Index: A/B Testing - Estimated Time to Declare Winner A/B Testing - Improvement ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Sites Analytics
Official Documentation
Sites Analytics Liferay Analytics Cloud provides a sites dashboard for each Property in your Workspace. For example, when Creating a Property each Property can be associated with one site or can be...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Pages Reference
Official Documentation
Pages Reference The data displayed for pages is based on Default Events and Event Attributes. The following events and event attributes are related to pages: Page Events pageDepthReached...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Pages Analytics
Official Documentation
Pages Analytics For pages, Analytics Cloud Registers and tracks pages for analysis the first time the Analytics Cloud client detects a Page interaction. Queries pages on a schedule for...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Paths Analytics
Official Documentation
Paths Analytics Path analytics identifies how visitors arrive on a site page and where they go next. Knowing how your users are coming and going can empower you to better tailor your site's content...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:44 PM
Sites
Official Documentation
Sites Sites are customizable spaces for building personalized digital experiences. They are a fundamental component of Liferay DXP. At its core, a site is a collection of pages that contains...
Published Date: Jul 3, 2025 8:41 PM
Exporting and Importing Page Templates
Official Documentation
Exporting and Importing Page Templates Sometimes, it's easier to edit templates in a code editor. After you create a page template, you can export it for local editing. Once you've made the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Using the Full Page Application Page Type
Official Documentation
Using the Full Page Application Page Type Create a new page and select Full Page Application under Other. Enter a name and click Add. Under Layout, select the Full Page Application you want...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Using Utility Pages
Official Documentation
Using Utility Pages 7.4 U86+ and GA86+ Utility pages serve specific operational tasks and actions and are usually essential for users to interact with a website or application effectively. Utility...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM
Defining Headers and Footers
Official Documentation
Defining Headers and Footers Headers and footers define the structure and appearance of your site. Use master page templates to apply these elements consistently across pages while maintaining...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:56 PM