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.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Capability
Using the Tree Menu Widget
Official Documentation
Using the Tree Menu Widget The Tree Menu widget lists all the wiki pages and child pages in a particular node. To use the Tree Menu widget: Navigate to the site page where the Wiki widget has...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Wiki Widget UI Reference
Official Documentation
Wiki Widget UI Reference FrontPage The FrontPage tab is the landing page for the Wiki widget. From here, content creators can add a child page, edit the existing FrontPage page, view the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Creating Knowledge Base Articles
Official Documentation
Creating Knowledge Base Articles Liferay 7.4 U72+/GA72+ Knowledge Base provides tools for creating and managing a repository of articles. You can create articles using the application's WYSIWYG...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:48 PM
Importing Knowledge Base Articles
Official Documentation
Importing Knowledge Base Articles Liferay 7.4 U72+/GA72+ You can draft Knowledge Base articles as Markdown files and import them to Liferay. To do this, you must ensure each Markdown file is...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:48 PM
Knowledge Base System Settings
Official Documentation
Knowledge Base System Settings Administrators can use the System Settings UI to set the Knowledge Base’s global configuration (across Sites). You can access this UI in Control Panel → Configuration...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:48 PM
Knowledge Base Templates
Official Documentation
Knowledge Base Templates Liferay 7.4 U72+/GA72+ Templates give authors a starting point with default headers or other content for articles. Templates help foster consistent formatting and content...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:48 PM
Knowledge Base
Official Documentation
Knowledge Base Liferay 7.4 U72+/GA72+ Knowledge Base provides tools for creating and managing product documentation. You can write articles in the Liferay UI or import existing Markdown files....
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:48 PM
Knowledge Base Display Widget
Official Documentation
Knowledge Base Display Widget Liferay 7.4 U72+/GA72+ You can use the Knowledge Base Display widget to display published articles in site pages with built-in navigation, comments, ratings, and...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:45 AM
Managing the Knowledge Base
Official Documentation
Managing the Knowledge Base Liferay 7.4 U72+/GA72+ With Knowledge Base, you can draft product documentation quickly and organize it into hierarchies that end users can navigate. Add folders and...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:48 PM
Other Knowledge Base Widgets
Official Documentation
Other Knowledge Base Widgets There are other Knowledge Base widgets you can add to pages besides the Knowledge Base Display widget: Knowledge Base Article: Display a single article’s content. ...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:48 PM
Configuring Mentions
Official Documentation
Configuring Mentions Mentions are enabled by the Mentions app. By default, the Mentions app is enabled globally. However, this can be enabled or disabled either globally or per site. Configuring...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:49 PM
Notifications and Requests
Official Documentation
Notifications and Requests Notifications and requests keep users informed about important activity, such as mentions, site invitations, or workflow tasks. You can manage how users are notified,...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:46 AM
Responding to Knowledge Base Feedback
Official Documentation
Responding to Knowledge Base Feedback Liferay 7.4 U72+/GA72+ You can view and manage article feedback in the Knowledge Base application. To do this, Open the Site Menu (Site Menu) and go to...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:48 PM
Managing Notifications and Requests
Official Documentation
Managing Notifications and Requests Users receive notifications and requests if they have subscribed to a blog or message board or are mentioned in a post. They may also be notified if someone sent...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:49 PM
Mentioning Users
Official Documentation
Mentioning Users Mentioning other users in a DXP asset draws their attention to a particular asset (for example, a message boards thread, blog post, or comment) by sending them a site and email...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:46 AM
Page Performance and Accessibility
Official Documentation
Page Performance and Accessibility With page performance and accessibility tools, you can monitor and improve your site’s content quality, loading speed, and compliance with SEO and accessibility...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
About the Content Performance Tool
Official Documentation
About the Content Performance Tool Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ The Content Performance tool is a global application for analyzing performance metrics of your content, like traffic acquisition channels...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Analyze Content Metrics Using the Content Performance Tool
Official Documentation
Analyze Content Metrics Using the Content Performance Tool Available 7.3+ Some Content Performance options are only available starting with Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4. You can use the Content...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
About the Page Audit Tool
Official Documentation
About the Page Audit Tool The Page Audit tool displays performance-related information about the server render time, component type, component's origin, and cache status as well as warning messages...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Configuring the Questions Widget
Official Documentation
Configuring the Questions Widget Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ There are two primary methods for configuring the Questions widget: directly through the widget configuration and through the System...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:46 AM
Analyze SEO and Accessibility on Pages
Official Documentation
Analyze SEO and Accessibility on Pages Starting with Liferay DXP 7.4, you can use the Page Audit tool to examine your pages' SEO and accessibility. The Page Audit tool uses the Google PageSpeed...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Using the Questions Widget
Official Documentation
Using the Questions Widget With the Questions widget, users can ask questions, provide answers, and engage in discussions within a site. By organizing topics and enabling collaborative answers, it...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:46 AM
Questions Widget
Official Documentation
Questions Widget Available: Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ The Questions widget is a new UI skin for the Message Boards widget, focused on presenting a question-and-answer format. With the Questions...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:46 AM
Configuring the Recycle Bin
Official Documentation
Configuring the Recycle Bin The Recycle Bin supports instance-wide scope or site-specific scope. By default, the Recycle Bin is enabled instance-wide. You can disable the recycle bin for a...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Recycle Bin Overview
Official Documentation
Recycle Bin Overview An integrated recycle bin can temporarily store content and data you want to remove from your instance before making that removal permanent. By default, the recycle bin is...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Recycle Bin
Official Documentation
Recycle Bin The recycle bin provides a safeguard for content management by temporarily storing deleted assets before they are removed permanently. When enabled, recyclable assets—such as documents,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Using the Recycle Bin
Official Documentation
Using the Recycle Bin The recycle bin functionality is available for the following assets: Blogs Bookmarks Documents and Media Folders Message Boards (and attachments) Web Content Wiki...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Social Tools
Official Documentation
Social Tools Social tools play a vital role in fostering engagement, collaboration, and interaction within digital environments. They can enhance user experiences and facilitate connections....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:49 PM
Using the Ratings System
Official Documentation
Using the Ratings System With Liferay DXP's asset framework, users can use a content rating system and rate or value content. Many of DXP's built-in content types have ratings enabled by default. ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:49 PM
Using the Contacts Center Widget
Official Documentation
Using the Contacts Center Widget With the Contacts Center widget, users can form two connection types: Connect and Follow. Connected users can see each other's activities in their private...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:49 PM
Tags and Categories
Official Documentation
Tags and Categories Use tags and categories to organize content and improve search and navigation across your sites. Categories provide a structured way to group related assets using vocabularies...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Using the Activities Widget
Official Documentation
Using the Activities Widget The Activities widget is deprecated as of Liferay DXP 2024.Q4/Portal GA129 and is scheduled for removal in a future release. The Activities widget is used to track...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:49 PM
Configuring Asset Auto-Tagging
Official Documentation
Configuring Asset Auto-Tagging Tagging assets is a great way to organize content. Typically, the content creator manually applies tags during creation, but you can configure Liferay to tag content...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Auto-Tagging Assets
Official Documentation
Auto-Tagging Assets You can manually tag most assets, such as Message Boards, Blogs, Documents, Images, and Web Content Articles. You can tag certain assets, however, automatically when they are...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Auto-Tagging Images
Official Documentation
Auto-Tagging Images Once asset auto-tagging has been enabled, you can also enable image auto-tagging. Image auto-tagging tags images uploaded to the Documents and Media Library. Currently, tags...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Auto-Tagging
Official Documentation
Auto-Tagging If you have a lot of content that's untagged, you can help your users find that content more easily by auto-tagging it. Liferay can use a local or cloud-based service to analyze and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Geolocating Assets
Official Documentation
Geolocating Assets Geolocation adds the geographic coordinates where an asset was created as metadata to an asset. This feature is provided as an optional field which can be included in a Web...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Organizing Content with Categories and Tags
Official Documentation
Organizing Content with Categories and Tags Categories and tags are two essential tools for helping users find content through search or navigation. Using categories, you can group similar assets...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Defining Categories and Vocabularies for Content
Official Documentation
Defining Categories and Vocabularies for Content Using categories, you can group similar assets and organize your content. Along with tags, categories help people find relevant information through...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Enabling Workflows for Translations
Official Documentation
Enabling Workflows for Translations You can enable a custom workflow for translation processes to guide the review and publishing process. Once you've defined your custom workflow, follow these...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Translating Pages and Content
Official Documentation
Translating Pages and Content Liferay provides integrated tools for translating both Web Content and Content Page experiences. With these tools you can manually translate text in a side-by-side...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Tagging Content and Managing Tags
Official Documentation
Tagging Content and Managing Tags Tags are keywords you can use to organize your assets and describe specific information about their content. Tags tell website visitors what the content is about...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:50 PM
Managing Translation Permissions
Official Documentation
Managing Translation Permissions The required permissions for translating content pages and web content depend on the translation method: Manual translation requires either Update permissions...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Translating Web Content
Official Documentation
Translating Web Content Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ Liferay provides integrated tools for translating web content articles, so you can create engaging, localized content for your global users. With...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Translating Content Pages
Official Documentation
Translating Content Pages Liferay 7.4 U15+ and GA15+ Liferay provides integrated tools for translating content pages, so you can create engaging, localized experiences for your global users. With...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Using Third Parties for Translation
Official Documentation
Using Third Parties for Translation Available Liferay 7.4 U15+ and GA15+ Liferay can integrate with the following service APIs to generate automatic translations of content pages and web content. ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Web Content
Official Documentation
Web Content You can create, manage, and publish various content types seamlessly through Liferay's robust content management system. Discover how to craft compelling web content articles tailored...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Creating Web Content Articles
Official Documentation
Creating Web Content Articles When you have a lot of content to publish on your site, Liferay's content management system helps you with practical and essential ways to manage it. Web content...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Assigning Permissions to Web Content Articles
Official Documentation
Assigning Permissions to Web Content Articles With Liferay's permissions framework, you can control which users can create, view, and manage web content articles. You can set permissions for...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Web Content Articles
Official Documentation
Web Content Articles Web content articles are dynamic content entries that can be created, edited, and managed through Liferay’s built-in content management system (CMS). You can use web content...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Filtering and Sorting Web Content Articles
Official Documentation
Filtering and Sorting Web Content Articles The web content application shows a list of all the web content articles you can access under the Web Content tab. The filtering and sorting options help...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Managing Web Content Articles
Official Documentation
Managing Web Content Articles Once you've added articles to your web content library, you can manage them via the web content UI. To access management actions for an article, click its Actions...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Previewing Web Content Articles
Official Documentation
Previewing Web Content Articles After creating a web content article, you can preview it using the selected default template or display page template before publishing, so you can make adjustments...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Generating Text Content Using AI
Official Documentation
Generating Text Content Using AI Liferay DXP 2023.Q4+/Portal GA98+ Web content provides integration with OpenAI's ChatGPT engine using the AI Creator tool. With an OpenAI API key configured for...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Upgrading to CKEditor 5
Upgrading to CKEditor 5 Liferay 2025.Q2+ [Beta Feature](../../../security-and-administration/administration/configuring-liferay/feature-flags.md#beta-feature-flags) Currently, this feature is...
Published Date: May 27, 2025 3:39 PM
Web Content Structures
Official Documentation
Web Content Structures Web content structures are the building blocks for web content articles. They determine the information you can include when writing web content. Structures provide these key...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Configuring Web Content Structure Fields
Official Documentation
Configuring Web Content Structure Fields You can edit web content structure fields and their properties: Open the Site Menu (Site Menu) and go to Content & Data → Web Content. Select the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Using Expiration and Review Dates in Web Content
Official Documentation
Using Expiration and Review Dates in Web Content Available: Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4+ You can set expiration and review dates for web content articles to manage time-sensitive content. When enabled,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Assigning Permissions to Web Content Structures and Templates
Official Documentation
Assigning Permissions to Web Content Structures and Templates Web content structures and templates provide direct access to Liferay's API. To avoid unauthorized or unintended access to Liferay DXP...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Creating Web Content Structures
Official Documentation
Creating Web Content Structures Create web content structures to serve as building blocks for web content articles and determine the information you can include when writing them. To create a web...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM