Modifying Liferay Page Messages Through Language.Properties

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Published Sep. 10, 2025

Modifying Liferay Page Messages Through Language.Properties

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In order to change out of the box page messages within Liferay, one must configure the properties of the language.properties located in the portal-impl.jar/content/language.properties

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The master language.properties file is used in Liferay to display portal content. This also allows portlets and other content to be localized. This file is stored in the default portal-impl.jar in the "../content" directory.

To properly override the default language.properties file, a "content" folder should be created in the following directory of the application server:

../ROOT/WEB-INF/classes

This should be the same location where the portal-ext.properties is stored.

Using the English localization, the following are filenames that should pick up the overrides:

Language-ext_en_US.properties

Language_en_US.properties

Language-ext_en.properties

Language_en.properties

Language-ext.properties