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Published Jun. 30, 2025

Custom Themes are no longer shown as Site Templates in DXP 7.4

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Madhusudan Sharma

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Issue

  • In Liferay DXP 7.3, custom themes were seen under Site Templates Pop Up (Control Panel > Site > Choosing the template).
  • However, in Liferay DXP 7.4, custom themes do not come under Site Templates, and is rather inconvenient to pick a theme.

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.4

Resolution

  • It is the expected behavior of the Product (Liferay DXP 7.4).
  • The reason behind this is that the part of the code that was responsible for generating these site templates was the 'Resources Importer', a tool that existed for a very long time and was tied to themes.
  • The “Resources Importer” gave the possibility of initializing a site with data when a theme is applied to a site and for this, the custom themes were coming under the site templates section.
  • However, this tool (Resource Importer) has been deprecated from the latest versions, and 'Site Initializers' came into the picture with the same intention. As a result, custom themes are no longer shown as Site Templates in Liferay DXP 7.4 and Site Initializers are present there.

Additional Information

  • Please note that the Site Initializers is an interface that allows developers to write any desired code that is executed when a site is created and the administrator selects that site initializer. They are presented to the administrator just like Site Templates are, but it's a programmer who decides what the newly created site will be created like. The article Introducing Site Initializers shared earlier explains more about it.
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