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.

Check these articles for an introduction:

Feature
Deployment Approach
Capability
Using Information Templates
Official Documentation
Using Information Templates Available 7.4+ With Information Templates, you can create FreeMarker templates for any item type that implements the Info Framework. Supported item types include web...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Using the Asset Publisher Widget
Official Documentation
Using the Asset Publisher Widget The Asset Display widget displays individual pieces of content from various sources like blogs, web content, and documents. You can use it to highlight specific...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Configuring the Asset Publisher Display Settings
Official Documentation
Configuring the Asset Publisher Display Settings When using an Asset Publisher widget, you can configure several display settings to specify how users view your content. Create a new page or...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Displaying Assets Using the Asset Publisher Widget
Official Documentation
Displaying Assets Using the Asset Publisher Widget As you create web content, remember that pieces of content are assets like message board entries and blog posts. The most common type of asset is...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:50 AM
Configuring Asset Publisher Subscriptions
Official Documentation
Configuring Asset Publisher Subscriptions The Asset Publisher supports two kinds of subscriptions: email subscriptions and RSS feed subscriptions. Email Subscriptions Users can subscribe to the...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Optimizing Sites
Official Documentation
Optimizing Sites From having top-tier SEO, to understanding and acting on your site's content, to building a site that is accessible to all types of users, Liferay provides tools for identifying...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
A/B Testing
Official Documentation
A/B Testing Liferay DXP 7.2 SP1+ With A/B Testing, you can determine the most effective version of your content by testing variations on different users. The majority of visitors see the current...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Reviewing A/B Test Results and Publishing Test Variants
Official Documentation
Reviewing A/B Test Results and Publishing Test Variants When the A/B Test finishes, you can find the test results in Analytics Cloud and Liferay DXP. Analytics Cloud declares a winner when the...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Verifying A/B Test Requirements
Official Documentation
Verifying A/B Test Requirements Before running A/B Testing on your Content pages, you must verify these requirements are met: Liferay DXP is connected to Analytics Cloud. Fore information on how...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Building a Responsive Site
Official Documentation
Building a Responsive Site More than half of all page views in the world come from mobile devices like phones and tablets. Any site should look as good when viewed by a mobile device as it does on...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Getting Started with Site Building
Official Documentation
Getting Started with Site Building Sites are a fundamental component of Liferay DXP. A site is a collection of pages with content and applications that provide functionality. When you start your...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Creating A/B Tests
Official Documentation
Creating A/B Tests Before creating A/B tests, remember these things: You can create a test for a default Experience or a personalized Experience mapped to a Segment. You can only create an A/B...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Running and Monitoring A/B Tests
Official Documentation
Running and Monitoring A/B Tests You can configure these parameters when you run the A/B Test: Traffic Split: The percentage of visitors randomly split between the original and the variant when...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Building Responsive Layouts with the Grid Fragment
Official Documentation
Building Responsive Layouts with the Grid Fragment Availability: Liferay DXP 7.3+. Liferay DXP uses responsive design by default, but there are situations where you want additional and more...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Creating Mobile Device Rules
Official Documentation
Creating Mobile Device Rules Available in Liferay 7.2 and prior as it is deprecated in 7.3 As a prerequisite, you must install the Liferay Mobile Device Detection Lite (LMDD) app from Liferay...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
SEO and Metadata Configuration Reference
Official Documentation
SEO and Metadata Configuration Reference Optimizing SEO and metadata is essential for improving site visibility in search engines and ensuring content is properly indexed and displayed across...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Using the Simulation Panel
Official Documentation
Using the Simulation Panel Available Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA102+ You can verify your page's responsiveness by simulating different scenarios. With Liferay, use the Simulation panel to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Publishing Tools
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: Aug 3, 2025 11:42 PM
Comparing Publishing Tools
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Personal Sites
Official Documentation
Personal Sites By default, Liferay generates a personal site for every user. Each site includes two page sets: My Profile (public) and My Dashboard (private). Each user is the sole member of their...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Publications
Official Documentation
Publications Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ You can use Publications to develop, track, and publish changes across your DXP instance. It works by creating a database column to determine which version of...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Best Practices for Managing Publications
Official Documentation
Best Practices for Managing Publications Efficient publication workflows in Liferay help improve collaboration, reduce errors, and streamline content delivery. Follow these best practices to...
Published Date: Mar 25, 2025 3:57 PM
Collaborating on Publications
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Creating and Managing Publications
Official Documentation
Creating and Managing Publications Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ With Publications, users can create instance-scoped blocks of changes. Because each publication is instance-scoped, they can be accessed...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Enabling Publications
Official Documentation
Enabling Publications Available Liferay 7.3+ Publications provides a convenient and flexible way for you and your teams to develop, track, and publish changes. When enabled, Publications is...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Making and Publishing Changes
Official Documentation
Making and Publishing Changes Liferay 7.3+ Publications provides a convenient way to manage changes to your Liferay instance. With it, you and your team can create and collaborate on blocks of...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Reverting Changes
Official Documentation
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....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Using the Publications Toolbar
Official Documentation
Using the Publications Toolbar The Publications Toolbar provides essential information for Publications users, including the name of the current publication or Production if working in the...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Configuring Automatic Publishing of Displayed Content
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Resolving Conflicts
Official Documentation
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....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Using Publication Templates
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Using Workflow with Publications
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Staging
Official Documentation
Staging Liferay's Staging application provides a working environment for making changes to a site or asset library before publishing your changes to your live environment. With it, you can modify...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Configuring Local Live Staging
Official Documentation
Configuring Local Live Staging With Local Live staging, both your staging and live environments are hosted on the same Liferay server. When enabled, Liferay DXP creates a local clone of your site...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Configuring Page Publishing
Official Documentation
Configuring Page Publishing Staging and publishing settings control how pages and their content are published to Live, optimizing performance and ensuring consistency. These settings determine...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Managing Staging Permissions
Official Documentation
Managing Staging Permissions With Staging, you can manage User permissions that deal directly with Staging and Page versioning. General Staging Permissions Related Site Permissions Individual...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Managing Data and Content Types in Staging
Official Documentation
Managing Data and Content Types in Staging Liferay DXP's Staging tool provides ways to manage available application data and content types both during initial configuration and the publishing...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Page Versioning
Official Documentation
Page Versioning With Page Versioning enabled, you and your team can work in parallel on multiple versions of your site's widget pages. These versions are called variations, which are you create and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Publishing Single Assets and Widgets
Official Documentation
Publishing Single Assets and Widgets You can publish single assets and widgets when needed without going through the entire publishing process. This is much faster than publishing all content at...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Understanding the Publishing Process
Official Documentation
Understanding the Publishing Process Publishing is the process whereby changes made in the Staging environment are transferred to the Live environment. Understanding this process can improve...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM