Capability

Development and Tooling

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.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Publishing Individual Pages in a Staging Environment May Publish All Pages
When publishing individual pages from a Staging environment to a Live environment, it is possible that upon publication, all pages in the Live environment may reflect changes. If this...
Notifications for Updated Versions of Plugins
This article is a legacy article. It applies to previous versions of the Liferay product. While the article is no longer maintained, the information may still be applicable. When there...
Overriding Liferay's Default CSS for Individual Portlets
In custom environments, it may be necessary to apply custom styles to specific portlets. The example below gives guidance on how to override the Liferay Theme CSS in order to customize...
Patching Liferay Portal When There Are Custom Apps Installed
Liferay Portal fix packs and hotfixes will often update, not only JSPs, but also classes. In order to ensure that your custom projects continue to use the most up-to-date code, please...
Using Liferay Connector to OAuth EE
What is OAuth? It is a utility that authorizes third party applications to interact with the Liferay platform. The example from our official documentation is worth repeating here; users can make Twitter or Facebook...
Using the Data Migration Tool in Liferay Portal
This article describes the two uses of the data migration tool in the system administration section of Liferay Portal. The Data Migration Tool is fully supported for Liferay Portal 6.2...
Updating Plugins After Applying a Patch
This article documents several possible solutions for updating plugins after a new fix pack has been installed. Specifically, customers have found that a plugin's libraries are not patched at the same time as the...
Changes in MVCActionCommands and portletIds
This article documents changes to the MVCActionCommand type of commands after Liferay DXP 7.0 Fix Pack 11 is deployed. This change most affects developers building portlets in Liferay IDE tools (e.g. Liferay Developer...