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Liferay offers a comprehensive toolkit to extend or customize your digital experience. Build applications quickly with low-code/no-code features like Objects, or leverage developer tools like Liferay Workspace and Blade CLI for further customizations.

For users on PaaS or running Self-Hosted, Liferay also offers tools deploying customizations.

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Clay Management Toolbar
Official Documentation
Clay Management Toolbar The Management Toolbar gives administrators control over search container results in their apps. It lets you filter, sort, and choose a view type for search results, so you...
Liferay UI Icon Menus
Official Documentation
Liferay UI Icon Menus You can add a pop-up navigation menu to your app with the liferay-ui:icon-menu tag. Icon menus display menu options when needed, storing them away in a collapsed menu when...
Liferay Util Tag Library
Official Documentation
Liferay Util Tag Library The Liferay Util taglib is used to pull other resources into a portlet or theme. You can use it to specify which resources to insert at the bottom or top of the page's...
Liferay Portlet Objects For JSPs
Official Documentation
Liferay Portlet Objects For JSPs You may have noticed the tag in your JSPs. Similar to the theme:defineObjects tag, when you include this tag in your JSP, you gain access to several variables ...
Clay Form Elements
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Clay Form Elements The Liferay Clay tag library provides several tags for creating form elements. An example of each tag is shown below. Checkbox Checkboxes give the user a true or false input. "...
Liferay UI Icon Lists
Official Documentation
Liferay UI Icon Lists An icon list displays icons in a horizontal list, instead of in a pop-up navigation menu like an icon menu. You can see an example of an icon list menu in a message board...
Liferay UI Tabs
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Liferay UI Tabs Tabs create dividers that organize content into individual sections. Content can be embedded or included from another JSP. To add tabs to your app, use the tag and specify each...
Using Liferay Util Buffer
Official Documentation
Using Liferay Util Buffer The buffer tag is not a self-closing tag. The content placed between the opening and closing of this tag is saved to a buffer and its output is assigned to the Java...
Using Liferay Util Body Top
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Using Liferay Util Body Top The body top tag is not a self-closing tag. The content placed between the opening and closing of this tag is moved to the top of the body tag. When something is passed...
Using Liferay Util HTML Bottom
Official Documentation
Using Liferay Util HTML Bottom The HTML bottom tag is not a self-closing tag. Content placed between the opening and closing of this tag is moved to the bottom of the tag. When something is passed...
Using Liferay Util HTML Top
Official Documentation
Using Liferay Util HTML Top The HTML top tag is not a self-closing tag. The content placed between the opening and closing of this tag is moved to the tag. When something is passed using this...
React Component Utilities Reference
Official Documentation
React Component Utilities Reference Several useful tools are available to help you build high-performance components and applications in Liferay DXP using React: frontend-js-react-web module ...
PortletMVC4Spring Project Anatomy
Official Documentation
PortletMVC4Spring Project Anatomy PortletMVC4Spring portlets are packaged in WARs. Liferay provides Maven archetypes for creating projects configured to use JSP/JSPX and Thymeleaf templates. Their...
Generating Translations Automatically
Official Documentation
Generating Translations Automatically Liferay DXP supports 50 languages out-of-the-box. Each locale has its own language properties file containing keys for its language. When you create an...
Sharing Localized Messages
Official Documentation
Sharing Localized Messages As you work on an application you might have multiple modules, each of which with its own language keys. Instead of maintaining various language properties files in...
Using Localized Messages in an MVC Portlet
Official Documentation
Using Localized Messages in an MVC Portlet Liferay's localization framework is for creating localized messages in your MVC portlet. Deploy the Sample Code Then, follow these steps: Download...
Using Liferay Util Include
Official Documentation
Using Liferay Util Include The include tag lets you include other JSP files in your portlet's JSP, theme, or web content. This can increase readability as well as provide separation of concerns for...
Aggregating Resource Bundles
Official Documentation
Aggregating Resource Bundles When working with a module that shares localized messages, the bnd header must specify the resource bundles you want to associate with the module. Liferay provides a...
PortletMVC4Spring Configuration Files
Official Documentation
PortletMVC4Spring Configuration Files A PortletMVC4Spring application has these descriptors, Spring contexts, and properties files in its WEB-INF folder: web.xml → Web application descriptor ...
Adding a Language
Official Documentation
Adding a Language Liferay ships with over 50 languages out-of-the-box. Translation is complete for many of these languages, and some are still in the translation process. Each language has its own...
APIs as OSGi Services
Official Documentation
APIs as OSGi Services After you've learned what a module is and how to deploy one, you can use modules to define APIs and implement them. Liferay APIs are OSGi services, defined by Java interfaces...
Fundamentals
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Fundamentals Liferay development projects consist primarily of simple .jar files. These contain a few extra configuration files that make them OSGi modules, but they're easily understandable by...
Configuring Dependencies
Official Documentation
Configuring Dependencies Liferay provides a container where modules can publish and consume functionality through their Java packages. Modules can leverage packages from other modules or...
Resolving Third Party Library Package Dependencies
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Resolving Third Party Library Package Dependencies An application can rely on multiple OSGi modules. Resolving their Java package dependencies can be challenging. In a perfect world, every package...
Deploying WARs (WAB Generator)
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Deploying WARs (WAB Generator) You can create applications as Java EE-style Web Application ARchive (WAR) artifacts or as Java ARchive (JAR) OSGi bundle artifacts. Bean Portlets, PortletMVC4Spring...
Specifying Dependencies
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Specifying Dependencies You must satisfy all dependencies to compile and deploy a module successfully. After you find the dependency artifacts, add them as dependencies in your Gradle build file....
Architecture
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Architecture The Liferay DXP/Portal architecture has three parts: Core: Bootstraps DXP and its frameworks. The Core provides a runtime environment for managing services, UI components, and...
Finding Artifacts
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Finding Artifacts To use external artifacts in your project, you must configure their dependencies in your build.gradle Gradle script. Before specifying an artifact as a dependency, you must first...
Semantic Versioning
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Semantic Versioning Semantic Versioning is a three tiered versioning system for incrementing version numbers based on the degree of API change made in a releasable software component. It's a...
Importing Packages
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Importing Packages You often find yourself in a position of needing functionality provided by another module. To access this functionality, you must import packages from other modules into your...
JARs Excluded from WABs
Official Documentation
JARs Excluded from WABs [Liferay-generated web application bundles (WABs) are stripped of third party JARs that contain packages that Liferay exports already. Deploying the same third party...
Module Projects
Official Documentation
Module Projects Liferay applications and customizations are OSGi modules: .jar files containing Java code and some extra configuration for publishing and consuming APIs. A module project comprises...
Creating Video Shortcut Providers
Official Documentation
Creating Video Shortcut Providers Liferay DXP 7.4+ By default, Liferay's external video shortcuts support YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, and Twitch. However, you can extend this feature to support...
Command Line Gogo Shell
Official Documentation
Command Line Gogo Shell If you're in a development environment, you can interact with the module framework locally from the command line. Gogo shell should only be run from the command line in...
Using the Gogo Shell
Official Documentation
Using the Gogo Shell The Gogo shell provides a way to interact with the module framework. Among other things, you can Dynamically install/uninstall bundles (modules) Examine package...
Workflow Definition Link API Basics
Official Documentation
Workflow Definition Link API Basics Liferay DXP 2025.Q1+/Portal GA132+ You can manage workflow definition links from the Liferay UI or using Liferay's REST APIs. In Liferay, the Control Panel →...
Account Users and Roles APIs
Official Documentation
Account Users and Roles APIs You can manage Account Users and Account Roles from the Applications menu, but you can also use Liferay's REST APIs. Call these services to create and manage account...
Adding the UAD Framework
Official Documentation
Adding the UAD Framework You can manage and delete user data with Liferay's User Associated Data (UAD) management tool. The tool is available out-of-the-box for many of Liferay's applications (e.g....
Postal Address API Basics
Official Documentation
Postal Address API Basics Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4+ Use Liferay's REST APIs to manage postal addresses. Add Postal Address to Account Then, follow these steps: Download and unzip Postal Address...
Account Groups API Basics
Official Documentation
Account Groups API Basics Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4+ You can manage account groups from the Applications menu or use Liferay's REST APIs. Call these services to create and manage account groups. ...