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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.

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Exporting and Importing Fragments
Official Documentation
Exporting and Importing Fragments Export fragments from one environment and import them into another to move content, replicate setups, share fragment collections, or back up custom work. ...
Mapping and Linking Fragment Elements
Official Documentation
Mapping and Linking Fragment Elements You can map and link fragments together as reusable components for your digital experiences (e.g., form submissions and navigation actions). Not all...
Default Fragments Reference
Official Documentation
Default Fragments Reference Liferay provides many out-of-the-box fragments, so you can start building your solution immediately. To view available fragments, begin editing a content page or page...
Propagating Fragment Changes
Official Documentation
Propagating Fragment Changes By default, changes made to a custom fragment's code are not propagated to deployed instances of the fragment. Using fragment propagation, you can propagate changes to...
Using Form Fragments
Official Documentation
Using Form Fragments Liferay DXP 2023.Q3+/Portal GA92+ Liferay includes form fragments for building forms in content pages. To build a form, add a form container to a content page or page template...
Duplicating Fragments
Official Documentation
Duplicating Fragments When building a page or template with fragments, you can duplicate configured fragments to save time. A duplicated fragment includes the original fragment's settings,...
Managing Fragments
Official Documentation
Managing Fragments Liferay DXP provides tools for managing fragments in the Liferay UI. With out-of-the-box tools, you can edit fragment code, export/import fragment sets between sites, and more. ...
Saving Fragment Compositions
Official Documentation
Saving Fragment Compositions Layout and composition are the foundation of your page design. They make pages easier to read and navigate, resulting in a richer and more consistent user experience....
Creating Forms Using Form Fragments
Official Documentation
Creating Forms Using Form Fragments Use form fragments to create and manage forms on content pages or page templates. With form fragments, you can map fields to objects, organize layouts, and...
Using Fragments to Build Multi-Step Forms
Official Documentation
Using Fragments to Build Multi-Step Forms Liferay DXP 2024.Q4+/Portal GA129+ You can use fragments to create a single-step form or create a multi-step form with the Stepper fragment or by changing...
Using Layout Elements
Official Documentation
Using Layout Elements For Liferay 7.4 U22+/GA22+ Layout elements define drop zones for designing page or template layouts. By default, Liferay includes two layout elements: containers and grids....
Configuring Widgets
Official Documentation
Configuring Widgets Widgets available out-of-the-box with Liferay DXP share several configurable features: look and feel, import/export of widget data, inter-widget communication, and more.
Personalizing Forms Using Form Fragments
Official Documentation
Personalizing Forms Using Form Fragments Form fragments auto-generate forms based on custom objects. If Liferay's out-of-the-box form fragments don't satisfy your use case, you can create form...
Using Widgets
Official Documentation
Using Widgets Widgets are full-blown web applications that must be deployed to a Liferay instance. Built on the Portlet specification, widgets provide a way to create customized web experiences for...
Translating Fields in Form Containers
Official Documentation
Translating Fields in Form Containers Liferay DXP 2025.Q1+/Portal GA132+ Localize text inputs in form containers directly in the Page Editor to provide multilingual support for fields listed in...
Communication Between Widgets
Official Documentation
Communication Between Widgets Portlet widgets can communicate with each other using public render parameters and events. Some Liferay portlets provide a configuration UI to help you get the most...
Configuring Templates
Official Documentation
Configuring Templates Once you've configured a widget, Configuration Templates can save those settings in a reusable template. Configuration templates are only available for widgets placed on a...
Exporting/Importing Widget Data
Official Documentation
Exporting/Importing Widget Data Export data from individual widget instances without affecting the rest of the site. Many widgets support exporting and importing their data separately, including: ...
Default Widgets Reference
Official Documentation
Default Widgets Reference Liferay provides a variety of widgets out-of-the-box, so you can start building your solution right away. Widgets can be placed on content pages, widget pages, and page...
Sharing Widgets with Other Sites
Official Documentation
Sharing Widgets with Other Sites The Sharing options for widgets are deprecated as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129 and are scheduled for removal in a future release. You can share widgets...
Setting Widget Scopes
Official Documentation
Setting Widget Scopes The Scope configuration is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129 and is scheduled for removal in a future release. By default, Liferay's page widgets are scoped...
Styling Widgets
Official Documentation
Styling Widgets Once you've added widgets on a page, you can customize the look and feel of the widgets to meet your needs. With a range of configuration options available, you can tailor the...
Setting Widget Permissions
Official Documentation
Setting Widget Permissions All of Liferay's widgets support Liferay's robust, fine-grained permissions system. Some higher level permissions can be configured in the permissions tab of the widget's...
Configuring Widget Look and Feel
Official Documentation
Configuring Widget Look and Feel Customize your widget's appearance using the Look and Feel Configuration menu when using widget pages. Adjust text styles, background colors, borders, margins,...
Creating a Widget Template
Official Documentation
Creating a Widget Template Widget Templates use FreeMarker to determine how widgets are rendered in site pages. Each template is designed for a specific widget type and can be selected while...
Setting a Default Widget Template
Official Documentation
Setting a Default Widget Template You can change the widget template for individual widgets through their own configuration; however you can also configure a default widget template to apply to all...
Using a Widget Template Example
Official Documentation
Using a Widget Template Example Widget Templates are great tools for customizing how widgets look and feel on your site. This example shows changing the default configuration of the Media Gallery...
Page Settings UI Reference
Official Documentation
Page Settings UI Reference You can configure individual pages to meet your needs. All changes made in this way are scoped to the selected page. To configure a specific page, open the Site Menu...
Setting Default Permissions
Official Documentation
Setting Default Permissions Liferay DXP 2024.Q3+/Portal GA125+ You can define a set of default permissions for Liferay content pages. The default permissions setting is available at both instance...
Page Settings
Official Documentation
Page Settings In Liferay, effective page management is crucial for maintaining an organized and user-friendly site. Page settings go beyond the physical layout and content of your pages to help you...
Configuring Locked Pages
Official Documentation
Configuring Locked Pages Liferay DXP 2023.Q3+/Portal GA92+ Liferay locks pages during editing to avoid conflicts when multiple users try to edit the same page. This feature works with content,...
Configuring Page Sets
Official Documentation
Configuring Page Sets For Liferay 7.4 U22+ and GA22+, private pages are disabled for new installations. They are also deprecated as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129 and are scheduled for...
Configuring Your Page's Friendly URL
Official Documentation
Configuring Your Page's Friendly URL Liferay 7.3+ You can set friendly URLs for each of your site's pages. These URLs make it easy to understand and recall your page's address while providing key...
Updating Page Permissions
Official Documentation
Updating Page Permissions By default, when users join a site, they can see all of its pages. However, you can configure permissions for individual pages to restrict access based on user roles. ...
Understanding Pages
Official Documentation
Understanding Pages Pages render content and applications for users of a site. Page Sets If you enable private pages, two page sets are created: public pages and private pages. For Liferay 7.4...
Managing Content in Content Pages
Official Documentation
Managing Content in Content Pages When working on content pages or templates, you can view and manage documents, web content articles, collections, and inline text added to them. To access these...
Managing Content in Content Pages For Liferay 7.3 and Earlier Versions
Official Documentation
Managing Content in Content Pages For Liferay 7.3 and Earlier Versions For Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3, you can review web content deployed using fragments and widgets in the Contents panel (Contents). ...
Other Page Types
Official Documentation
Other Page Types Content pages are the most commonly used page type, but there are uses for the other page types. Utility Pages Utility pages are content pages you can apply to system-level pages,...
Using Page Comments
Official Documentation
Using Page Comments When building content pages, you and your team can collaborate using Liferay's page comments feature. Comments are enabled out-of-the-box in Liferay DXP 7.3+. Use page comments...
Types of Utility Pages
Official Documentation
Types of Utility Pages Utility pages are content pages managed at the site level. Since the default system-level pages are not customizable, you can use site-level utility pages to provide a unique...