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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
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Styles Reference
Official Documentation
Styles Reference All fragments have a Styles settings section except for the Collection Display fragment. Use the style settings to configure your fragments' look and feel. Many of these options...
Creating Dropdown Menus with Fragments
Official Documentation
Creating Dropdown Menus with Fragments Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4+ Liferay provides the Dropdown fragment to create advanced drop-down menus (A). With it, you can define drop zones for additional page...
Mapping and Linking Fragment Elements
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Mapping and Linking Fragment Elements You can map and link fragments together as reusable components for your digital experiences (e.g., form submissions and navigation actions). Not all...
Personalizing Forms Using Form Fragments
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Personalizing Forms Using Form Fragments Form fragments auto-generate forms based on custom objects. If Liferay's out-of-the-box form fragments don't satisfy your use case, you can create form...
Managing Fragments
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Managing Fragments Liferay DXP provides tools for managing fragments in the Liferay UI. With out-of-the-box tools, you can edit fragment code, export/import fragment sets between sites, and more. ...
Propagating Fragment Changes
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Propagating Fragment Changes By default, changes made to a custom fragment's code are not propagated to deployed instances of the fragment. Using fragment propagation, you can propagate changes to...
Saving Fragment Compositions
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Saving Fragment Compositions Layout and composition are the foundation of your page design. They make pages easier to read and navigate, resulting in a richer and more consistent user experience....
Using Layout Elements
Official Documentation
Using Layout Elements For Liferay 7.4 U22+/GA22+ Layout elements define drop zones for designing page or template layouts. By default, Liferay includes two layout elements: containers and grids....
Configuring Widgets
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Configuring Widgets Widgets available out-of-the-box with Liferay DXP share several configurable features: look and feel, import/export of widget data, inter-widget communication, and more.
Using Widgets
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Using Widgets Widgets are full-blown web applications that must be deployed to a Liferay instance. Built on the Portlet specification, widgets provide a way to create customized web experiences for...
Communication Between Widgets
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Communication Between Widgets Portlet widgets can communicate with each other using public render parameters and events. Some Liferay portlets provide a configuration UI to help you get the most...
Configuring Templates
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Configuring Templates Once you've configured a widget, Configuration Templates can save those settings in a reusable template. Configuration templates are only available for widgets placed on a...
Setting Widget Permissions
Official Documentation
Setting Widget Permissions All of Liferay's widgets support Liferay's robust, fine-grained permissions system. Some higher level permissions can be configured in the permissions tab of the widget's...
Setting Widget Scopes
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Setting Widget Scopes The Scope configuration is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129 and is scheduled for removal in a future release. By default, Liferay's page widgets are scoped...
Sharing Widgets with Other Sites
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Sharing Widgets with Other Sites The Sharing options for widgets are deprecated as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129 and are scheduled for removal in a future release. You can share widgets...
Exporting/Importing Widget Data
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Exporting/Importing Widget Data Export data from individual widget instances without affecting the rest of the site. Many widgets support exporting and importing their data separately, including: ...
Using a Widget Template Example
Official Documentation
Using a Widget Template Example Widget Templates are great tools for customizing how widgets look and feel on your site. This example shows changing the default configuration of the Media Gallery...
Page Settings UI Reference
Official Documentation
Page Settings UI Reference You can configure individual pages to meet your needs. All changes made in this way are scoped to the selected page. To configure a specific page, open the Site Menu...
Configuring Page Sets
Official Documentation
Configuring Page Sets For Liferay 7.4 U22+ and GA22+, private pages are disabled for new installations. They are also deprecated as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129 and are scheduled for...
Updating Page Permissions
Official Documentation
Updating Page Permissions By default, when users join a site, they can see all of its pages. However, you can configure permissions for individual pages to restrict access based on user roles. ...
Default Widgets Reference
Official Documentation
Default Widgets Reference Liferay provides a variety of widgets out-of-the-box, so you can start building your solution right away. Widgets can be placed on content pages, widget pages, and page...
Styling Widgets
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Styling Widgets Once you've added widgets on a page, you can customize the look and feel of the widgets to meet your needs. With a range of configuration options available, you can tailor the...
Configuring Widget Look and Feel
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Configuring Widget Look and Feel Customize your widget's appearance using the Look and Feel Configuration menu when using widget pages. Adjust text styles, background colors, borders, margins,...
Creating a Widget Template
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Creating a Widget Template Widget Templates use FreeMarker to determine how widgets are rendered in site pages. Each template is designed for a specific widget type and can be selected while...
Setting a Default Widget Template
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Setting a Default Widget Template You can change the widget template for individual widgets through their own configuration; however you can also configure a default widget template to apply to all...
Page Settings
Official Documentation
Page Settings In Liferay, effective page management is crucial for maintaining an organized and user-friendly site. Page settings go beyond the physical layout and content of your pages to help you...
Configuring Locked Pages
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Configuring Locked Pages Liferay DXP 2023.Q3+/Portal GA92+ Liferay locks pages during editing to avoid conflicts when multiple users try to edit the same page. This feature works with content,...
Configuring Your Page's Friendly URL
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Configuring Your Page's Friendly URL Liferay 7.3+ You can set friendly URLs for each of your site's pages. These URLs make it easy to understand and recall your page's address while providing key...
Other Page Types
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Other Page Types Content pages are the most commonly used page type, but there are uses for the other page types. Utility Pages Utility pages are content pages you can apply to system-level pages,...
Using Content Pages
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Using Content Pages Liferay's default page type is the content page. You can manage and edit page content and design with a convenient interface containing configurable drag-and-drop elements, or...
Adding Elements to Content Pages
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Adding Elements to Content Pages After creating a content page, you can add widgets and fragments to build the page's content and structure. Navigate to the content page and click Edit (Edit...
Content Page Editor UI Reference
Official Documentation
Content Page Editor UI Reference For Liferay 7.4 U37+/GA37+ Using the content page editor, you can add and configure elements in a content page. Go to a content page and click Edit (Edit icon)....
Using Widget Pages
Official Documentation
Using Widget Pages A widget page is a page with a set layout that allows widgets (applications) to be displayed. Widgets can display content or add interactive and dynamic functionality to the page.
Managing Content in Content Pages
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Managing Content in Content Pages When working on content pages or templates, you can view and manage documents, web content articles, collections, and inline text added to them. To access these...
Using Page Comments
Official Documentation
Using Page Comments When building content pages, you and your team can collaborate using Liferay's page comments feature. Comments are enabled out-of-the-box in Liferay DXP 7.3+. Use page comments...
Using Widgets on a Content Page
Official Documentation
Using Widgets on a Content Page The widgets section functions like the add menu on a widget page. You can access the full list of available widgets and add them to the page. The main difference is...
Adding Widgets to a Page
Official Documentation
Adding Widgets to a Page Widgets are applications. They can be simple and only used to display content, or they can be full-featured collaboration applications, like the Message Boards widget. ...
Converting Widget Pages to Content Pages
Official Documentation
Converting Widget Pages to Content Pages In older versions, widget pages provided exclusive features, such as custom layouts and customizable columns. Many of these exclusive features are available...
Enabling User Personalization of Widget Pages
Official Documentation
Enabling User Personalization of Widget Pages Administrators can designate some or all sections (rows and columns of the page layout) of a widget page as customizable for site members. Page...
Developing Page Fragments
Official Documentation
Developing Page Fragments Page fragments are the building blocks for content pages. They're made from the three components of web pages: CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. To create a page you combine...