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Exporting and Importing Style Books
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Exporting and Importing Style Books You can export and import style books to share them between Liferay installations as ZIP files or as Liferay Archive (LAR) files. Exporting a Style Book as a...
Site Membership
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Site Membership Site members can be assigned roles that define site-level privileges. This gives them more permissions than guests, allowing them to collaborate through widgets like message boards...
Adding Members to Sites
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Adding Members to Sites Users and sites are central concepts in Liferay DXP. Sites store all your content and pages, while users access and create that content. User management is covered in User...
Using a Style Book to Standardize Site Appearance
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Using a Style Book to Standardize Site Appearance Available 7.3+ A site's Style Book provides visual rules for applying a consistent experience across its pages. Style books determine various...
Frontend Token Definitions
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Frontend Token Definitions Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ The visual rules of style books consist of options grouped into categories. For example, in the Buttons category there can be an option called...
Site Appearance
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Site Appearance You can customize the design and functionality of a Liferay site in several different ways. The table below shows the Liferay tools you can use: FeaturesStyle BooksMaster Page...
Style Books
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Style Books
Using Staging in Asset Libraries
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Using Staging in Asset Libraries Staging is supported for Asset Libraries since Liferay DXP 7.4 and 7.3.10 FP1. Liferay's Staging application is a publishing tool for managing changes on DXP. For...
Developer Guide
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Developer Guide
Site Hierarchies
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Site Hierarchies Sites can be organized hierarchically, similar to organizations, with child sites. This hierarchical structure simplifies sharing content between sites. Unlike organizations which...
Changing Site Membership Type
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Changing Site Membership Type A site's membership type determines how freely users may join your site. There are three types of site membership: Open: Users can join and leave whenever they...
Configuring Role and Team Defaults for Site Members
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Configuring Role and Team Defaults for Site Members You can configure the default roles and teams you assign to new site members. Access the Default User Associations option: In Liferay DXP...
Creating Teams for Sites
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Creating Teams for Sites If you have an ad hoc group of users who perform the same set of tasks in a site (moderating a site's wiki content, managing message boards threads, writing blogs, editing...
Inviting Members to Your Site
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Inviting Members to Your Site The Invite Members widget is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129 and is scheduled for removal in a future release. You can use the Invite Members...
Managing Page Hierarchies
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Managing Page Hierarchies With Liferay, you can organize pages into hierarchies to achieve the desired structure for your site. This can be done by directly adding child pages to an existing page...
Using the Navigation Menus Application
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Using the Navigation Menus Application Use the Navigation Menus application to create custom menus for site pages and content. With it, you can determine which elements are included in a menu, and...
Configuring Menu Displays
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Configuring Menu Displays Use a Menu Display fragment or a Menu Display widget to display and configure a menu display. With either option, you can define the menu display options, levels, and...
Navigation Menu Element Types
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Navigation Menu Element Types Navigation Menus have a variety of element types that you can add and arrange in your desired hierarchy. These types include specific pages, Vocabularies, Display...
Site Settings
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Site Settings After you create a site, customize it to meet your needs and the needs of your users. A wealth of configuration options and tools are available to create the site you envision....
Site Navigation
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Site Navigation Liferay DXP separates your site's navigation menus from its page hierarchy to give you the flexibility you need, along with powerful tools to make content easy to access. Here, you...
Adding Icons to Navigation Menu Elements
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Adding Icons to Navigation Menu Elements Liferay DXP 2025.Q2+ Use icons to make navigation menus easier to scan and more visually engaging. They provide quick visual cues that help users recognize...
Using the Breadcrumb Widget
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Using the Breadcrumb Widget This widget provides a way to navigate to related pages or sites through links. From Fragments and Widgets, add the Breadcrumb widget to a page. It's located in the...
Adding a New Analytics Service
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Adding a New Analytics Service Liferay DXP includes support for Google Analytics and Piwik for analyzing traffic on your site. If you require a different analytics service, you can add it for your...
Configuring Hreflang Meta Data
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Configuring Hreflang Meta Data Hreflang tags are HTML attributes used to identify the language and geographic region targeted by alternative versions of a page. In some cases, these attributes can...
Best Practices for Managing Publications
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Best Practices for Managing Publications Efficient publication workflows in Liferay help improve collaboration, reduce errors, and streamline content delivery. Follow these best practices to...
Collaborating on Publications
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Collaborating on Publications Liferay 7.4+ By default, a publication can only be accessed by its creator. However, publication creators can invite other users to view, edit, and publish their...
Resolving Conflicts
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Resolving Conflicts During the publishing process, Liferay checks for conflicts between your publication and the production environment. Resolving all conflicts is necessary to complete publishing....
Publishing Tools
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Publishing Tools Liferay provides two publishing tools for content creation and site building: Publications and Staging. With each tool you can edit sites and content in a working environment...
Comparing Publishing Tools
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Comparing Publishing Tools Liferay provides two publishing tools for content creation and site building: Publications and Staging. Publications is recommended over Staging in nearly all use cases...
Reverting Changes
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Reverting Changes Liferay Publications maintains a history of all published changes. You can use this publishing history to easily create publications that revert earlier changes to production....
Using Workflow with Publications
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Using Workflow with Publications 7.4 U44+/GA44+ Publications is integrated with Liferay's Workflow framework, so you can continue to use custom workflows for reviewing content and pages while...
Using Publication Templates
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Using Publication Templates Liferay 7.4 U73+/GA73+ To simplify creating publications with shared details and contributors, use publication templates. You can create a list of users to invite and...
Configuring Automatic Publishing of Displayed Content
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Configuring Automatic Publishing of Displayed Content Available 7.4+ By default, only content explicitly included in a publishing process is published to Live. If desired, you can configure your...
Configuring Remote Live Staging
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Configuring Remote Live Staging With Remote Live staging, your staging and live environments are hosted on separate Liferay servers. When enabled, the site or asset library used to configure...
Configuring Open Graph for Sites
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Configuring Open Graph for Sites Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ Open Graph is an Internet protocol that standardizes previews of site content when shared in application contexts that support it, such as...
Managing Site URLs
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Managing Site URLs Liferay DXP provides multiple out-of-the-box features for configuring and managing site URLs. Virtual Hosts Site URLs Configure virtual hosts for your Liferay server to connect...
Configuring Content Rating Type
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Configuring Content Rating Type Ratings can be represented by different types of icons/labels (like, stacked stars, stars, and thumbs ups). You can configure these rating types for the following...
Configuring Friendly URL Redirects
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Configuring Friendly URL Redirects Liferay 7.4+ When you update friendly URLs for pages, blogs, and documents, Liferay automatically stores the old URLs. As long as the old URL remains in the...
Configuring Your Site's Friendly URL
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Configuring Your Site's Friendly URL Friendly URLs are readable URLs that can helps users quickly access your site. Each URL must be unique and is appended to https://localhost:8080/web (e.g.,...
Using Alias Redirects
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Using Alias Redirects Alias redirects define absolute source and destination URLs explicitly. Because of their predictability, alias redirects are recommended for most use cases. You can make alias...
Configuring XML Sitemaps
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Configuring XML Sitemaps Liferay DXP 2024.Q2+/Portal GA120+ XML sitemaps are XML-formatted documents listing the URLs of a website along with additional metadata (e.g. last update, change...
Configuring Virtual Hosts Site URLs
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Configuring Virtual Hosts Site URLs A virtual host connects a domain name (e.g., www.helloworld.com) to a site. This can be a full domain or a subdomain (e.g. developers.helloworld.com). You can...
Tracking 404 URLs
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Tracking 404 URLs With the Redirection application, you can view and manage site requests leading to 404 errors. While enabled, Liferay catalogs each error, so you can assess the cause of the...
Site Content Configurations
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Site Content Configurations Liferay offers a range of tools and settings to help you configure and optimize your site's content: Setting up the asset recycle bin Configuring content rating...
Configuring Friendly URL Separators
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Configuring Friendly URL Separators Liferay DXP 2024.Q2+/Portal GA120+ You can customize URL separators to improve URL readability and enhance SEO. For example, web content articles use the...
Setting Up Redirects and 404 Tracking
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Setting Up Redirects and 404 Tracking 7.4 U48+/GA48+ Maintaining URL integrity is important for any site. Liferay's Redirection tool provides a convenient and integrated way to manage HTTP...
Using Pattern Redirects
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Using Pattern Redirects Available 7.4 U48+/GA48+ Pattern redirects use regular expressions to define patterns for multiple source URLs and their replacements. Consequently, they are best used when...
Configuring Geolocation for Assets
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Configuring Geolocation for Assets Geolocated assets include geographical data, allowing them to be displayed on maps or filtered based on location. You can use geolocation data to display a list...
Configuring the Asset Recycle Bin for Sites
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Configuring the Asset Recycle Bin for Sites The recycle bin stores content and assets that have been flagged for deletion, before they are permanently removed from the system. This functionality...
Site Localization
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Site Localization If you are setting up your Liferay installation for the first time, we recommend reviewing Initial Instance Localization first. Configuring Site Languages You can set your...
Exporting/Importing Site Templates
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Exporting/Importing Site Templates You can export and import site templates to share them between Liferay installations. Exporting Individual Site Templates Open the Global Menu (Global Menu),...
Handling Friendly URL Conflicts in Site Templates
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Handling Friendly URL Conflicts in Site Templates Currently, this feature is behind a beta feature flag (LPS-174417). Read Beta Feature Flags for more information. Liferay doesn't allow...
Site Settings UI Reference
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Site Settings UI Reference Starting with Liferay DXP 7.4, the Site Settings application layout is consistent with other configuration areas, such as Instance Settings or System Settings. The Site...
Securing Site Documents Content
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Securing Site Documents Content By default, your Site's Documents and Media files and folders are not visible in the web server directory index, so you can't view them through the browser. To...
Creating Site Templates
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Creating Site Templates With site templates, you can design and configure templates for creating sites. Each template is built using the same tools as sites. Site templates are primarily intended...
Managing Content Sharing Across Sites
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Managing Content Sharing Across Sites You can allow Liferay DXP child Sites to display content from parent Sites. This content includes Web Content Structures Web Content Templates Document...
Site Templates
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Site Templates Liferay provides site templates for designing structures and content that you can use during site creation. Each template includes most standard site applications for adding pages,...
Configuring Site Template Propagation
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Configuring Site Template Propagation Liferay 7.4 U23+/GA23+ By default, site template changes are propagated automatically to a connected site when a user visits the site after the template is...
Propagating Template Changes
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Propagating Template Changes When site template propagation is enabled, you can make changes to the template's pages and automatically propagate those changes to connected sites. However, making...
Contributing to Liferay Development
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Contributing to Liferay Development The first thing to do in learning to fix bugs or contributing a feature is to become familiar with how to build the system. The Liferay Portal build system now...