Capability

Sites

Liferay sites are customizable spaces for building personalized digital experiences. Each site includes applications for creating content, designing pages, and more. With these features, you can bring your custom solutions to life, whether intranets, public sites, customer portals, or e-commerce storefronts. In fact, you can leverage Liferay's multi-site capabilities to create multiple such sites in the same Liferay instance.

Feature
Deployment Approach
Capability
Designing and Displaying Reusable Navigation Menus
Navigation menus for a site are typically tied strictly to a site's page hierarchy and structure. The Navigation Menus feature in Liferay is powerful because it enables you to create navigation...
Published Date: Aug 15, 2024 6:33 PM
Building a Reusable and Dynamic Accordion With Fragments
Liferay Fragments are reusable, customizable web elements that serve as building blocks for a page. They consist of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to provide structure, style, and functionality to your...
Published Date: Aug 19, 2024 4:54 PM
Mapping Calendar Event Fields to Display Page Templates
Mapping Calendar Event Fields to Display Page Templates You can customize and display calendar event information by mapping calendar fields to display page templates. Highlight certain fields such...
Published Date: May 13, 2024 7:54 PM
Calendar
Calendar The Calendar widget stores and shares scheduled events. It's a personal planner for individual users, a shared calendar for an entire site, or both at the same time. In addition to...
Published Date: May 13, 2024 7:54 PM
Exporting/Importing Calendar Data
Exporting/Importing Calendar Data You can export and import calendar data as Liferay Archive (LAR) files. Data can only be ported between installations of the same version. Use the widget...
Published Date: May 13, 2024 7:54 PM
Configuring the Calendar Widget
Configuring the Calendar Widget Use the Calendar widget configuration options to tailor the display and functionality of your calendar. From choosing the time format and default view to setting the...
Published Date: May 13, 2024 7:54 PM
Using the Calendar Widget
Using the Calendar Widget The calendar widget displays a small monthly calendar showing an overview of upcoming events. A larger area shows the Scheduler, a more detailed calendar with several...
Published Date: May 13, 2024 7:54 PM
Alerts and Announcements
Alerts and Announcements Use the Alerts or the Announcements widgets to broadcast important information. Alerts are for high-priority information (e.g. planned downtime alerts, security alerts,...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:48 PM
Social Tools
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 Activities Widget
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
Using the Contacts Center Widget
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
Using the Ratings System
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
Changing Your Site's Appearance
Changing Your Site's Appearance Liferay has many ways to customize your site's appearance. Your site's favicon and theme are two of the first elements you may want to change. Themes set a default...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Creating Your First Site
Creating Your First Site Sites are collections of pages that contain and display content. This article walks through creating a new Site based on an existing out-of-the-box template. Creating a...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:51 PM
Navigation Menu API Basics
Navigation Menu API Basics Liferay's REST APIs provide services for Liferay's navigation menus. You can create and edit navigation menus with the API. Start by seeing an example of adding a new...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Site APIs
Site APIs Use Liferay’s REST APIs to manage site elements programmatically. This guide introduces the Navigation Menu API and shows how to create, retrieve, update, and delete navigation menus...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Displaying Object Entries
Displaying Object Entries Liferay 7.4+ You can display object entries dynamically with Liferay's page building features. For example, collection displays can show a list of entries while display...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Themes
Themes Themes customize the default look and feel of your site. You can define the style and visual identity of your brand or label across your whole site. You can use a theme CSS client...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:48 AM
Bundling Resources
Bundling Resources
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Bundling a Thumbnail Preview into Your Theme
Bundling a Thumbnail Preview into Your Theme A theme's thumbnail is the visual representation of how the theme looks when it is applied to a Site. The thumbnail is shown in the theme selection menu...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Bundling and Installing Resources into Your Theme via Themelets
Bundling and Installing Resources into Your Theme via Themelets Themelets are small, modular pieces of code that you can reuse in multiple themes. Unlike themes themselves, themelets may only...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Bundling Independent UI Resources via Theme Contributors
Bundling Independent UI Resources via Theme Contributors Theme contributors are modules that contain CSS and JavaScript resources and apply them to every page. They are independent from specific...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Setting Up an Environment and Creating a Theme
Setting Up an Environment and Creating a Theme Creating a theme is the first step in theme development. Once you have your own theme, you can deploy it to your Liferay DXP instance, and use it for...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Embedding Widgets Using Templates
Embedding Widgets Using Templates You can embed a widget in your theme to make it available on all pages using the chosen template file. When you are embedding a widget, you will need to reference...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Upgrading a Theme
Upgrading a Theme Themes developed for previous versions of Liferay DXP must be upgraded in order to be deployed to a new version. The gulp upgrade task updates Liferay version references and theme...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:54 PM
Using a Style Book to Standardize Site Appearance
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Site Hierarchies
Site Hierarchies Sites can be organized hierarchically, similar to organizations, with child sites. This hierarchical structure simplifies sharing content between sites. Unlike organizations which...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Site Membership
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Adding Members to Sites
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Changing Site Membership Type
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Configuring Role and Team Defaults for Site Members
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Site Appearance
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Style Books
Style Books
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Developer Guide
Developer Guide
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Frontend Token Definitions
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Exporting and Importing Style Books
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Site Navigation
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Creating Teams for Sites
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Inviting Members to Your Site
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Configuring Menu Displays
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Adding Icons to Navigation Menu Elements
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...
Published Date: Apr 10, 2025 4:00 PM
Managing Page Hierarchies
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Site Settings
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....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Adding a New Analytics Service
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Navigation Menu Element Types
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Using the Breadcrumb Widget
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Using the Navigation Menus Application
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Configuring Hreflang Meta Data
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Configuring Open Graph for Sites
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Configuring Friendly URL Separators
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...
Published Date: Jun 7, 2024 4:00 PM
Configuring Virtual Hosts Site URLs
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Configuring Your Site's Friendly URL
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.,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Managing Site URLs
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Configuring Friendly URL Redirects
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Configuring XML Sitemaps
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...
Published Date: Jun 6, 2024 3:57 PM
Setting Up Redirects and 404 Tracking
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Tracking 404 URLs
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Using Alias Redirects
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Configuring Content Rating Type
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Using Pattern Redirects
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM