Mastering Liferay Content Search

Effective content strategies go beyond simply publishing high-quality information; they also ensure content is easily discoverable. This is especially critical as sites grow and their content volume increases. Without effective site search, even the most valuable content can get lost, leading to user frustration and unmet business goals.

Liferay DXP’s search framework enables you to query and display information efficiently from across your platform. It leverages a powerful search engine to index content and assets (e.g., articles, documents, blog posts), delivering relevant results quickly. While this framework is powerful out of the box, Liferay also provides a rich set of no-code tools for content managers to customize the search experience. Here, you’ll learn how to leverage these tools to build, tune, and troubleshoot your search pages.

This course primarily focuses on empowering content managers and other business users to understand Liferay’s search capabilities. It does not require technical expertise, though it does assume a basic familiarity with Liferay’s site building and CMS capabilities. If these concepts are new to you, consider taking the Foundations of Content Management course first.

By the end of this course, you’ll have the knowledge and skills to

• Understand how search works in Liferay.
• Optimize content for search discoverability.
• Build search experiences.
• Fine-tune search results to guide users to the best content.
• Troubleshoot common search issues.

To bridge the gap between theory and practice, this course leads you through implementing content search for a fictional company, Clarity Vision Solutions. Before diving into Liferay’s search capabilities, you’ll learn about Clarity and their critical success factors.