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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.

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Deployment Approach
Capability
Updating Page Permissions
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. ...
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Styling Widgets
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Creating a Widget Template
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...
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Setting a Default Widget Template
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...
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Page Settings
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Configuring Locked Pages
Configuring Locked Pages Liferay DXP 2023.Q3+/Portal 7.4 GA92+ Liferay locks pages during editing to avoid conflicts when multiple users try to edit the same page. This feature works with...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Configuring Your Page's Friendly URL
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Other Page Types
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,...
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Using Content Pages
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...
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Using Widget Pages
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.
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Managing Content in Content Pages
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...
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Using Page Comments
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...
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Adding Widgets to a Page
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. ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Converting Widget Pages to Content Pages
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...
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Enabling User Personalization of Widget Pages
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...
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Displaying Content
Displaying Content You can display content in various ways. The option you choose depends on the type of asset you want to display, how many assets you want to display at once, and how you want...
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Additional Content Display Options
Additional Content Display Options In Liferay, displaying content on your site requires flexible tools to enhance how information is presented. From using the Web Content Display widget to managing...
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Filtering Collections on a Page
Filtering Collections on a Page To improve the experience for Users viewing Collections on your Site, you can add Page Fragments to filter content in those Collections. For example, you can add a...
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Using the Simulation Panel
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
Developer Guide
Developer Guide
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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...
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Style Books
Style Books
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Developer Guide
Developer Guide
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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
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. They determine various visual...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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 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
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...
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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...
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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...
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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 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.,...
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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...
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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...
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Site Localization
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...
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Sites
Sites Sites are customizable spaces for building personalized digital experiences. Each site includes out-of-the-box applications for building custom solutions, such as portals, intranets,...
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Site Settings UI Reference
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...
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Site Users
Site Users Managing site users in Liferay involves configuring how users join your site and assigning them appropriate roles and teams by default. These settings help streamline user management and...
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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...
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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...
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Exporting/Importing Site Pages and Content
Exporting/Importing Site Pages and Content Liferay sites include the export/import applications for extracting and transferring site data as Liferay Archive (LAR) files. You can access these tools...
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Site Membership
Site Membership Being a member of a site grants users access and abilities beyond an unauthenticated guest user. These key benefits come with site membership: Site members have more permissions...
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Adding a Site
Adding a Site Sites are customizable spaces within Liferay, designed for building personalized digital experiences that engage specific audiences and meet unique organizational goals. Creating a...
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Default Site Applications
Default Site Applications All sites include the below core applications for building personalized digital experiences. You can access them via the Product Menu (Product Menu). The Product Menu can...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Site Templates
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,...
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Exporting/Importing Site Templates
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),...
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Propagating Template Changes
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM

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