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
Building Responsive Layouts with the Grid Fragment
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
Publications
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
Creating and Managing Publications
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
Collaborating on Publications
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
Reverting Changes
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
Resolving Conflicts
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 the Publications Toolbar
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
Making and Publishing Changes
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
Using Publication Templates
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
Publications Permissions
Publications Permissions 7.4+ Publications works with Liferay's permissions framework, so you can assign application and resource permissions to regular roles. You can also assign permissions...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Enabling Publications
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
Configuring Automatic Publishing of Displayed Content
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
Staging
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 Page Publishing
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
Configuring Remote Live Staging
Configuring Remote Live Staging With Remote Live staging, your staging and live environments are hosted on separate Liferay servers. When enabled, the site or asset library used to configure...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Using Workflow with Publications
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
Page Versioning
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
Configuring Local Live Staging
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
Managing Data and Content Types in Staging
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
Understanding the Publishing Process
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
Managing Staging Permissions
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
Publishing Single Assets and Widgets
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
Site Staging UI Reference
Site Staging UI Reference After enabling Local or Remote Live Staging for your site, most page configuration options are only accessible in your Staging environment. This prevents users from...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Using Staging in Asset Libraries
Using Staging in Asset Libraries Staging is supported for Asset Libraries since Liferay DXP 7.4 and 7.3.10 FP1. Liferay's Staging application is a publishing tool for managing changes on DXP. For...
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 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
Developer Guide
Developer Guide
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Style Books
Style Books
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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 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 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
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
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
Securing Site Documents Content
Securing Site Documents Content By default, your Site's Documents and Media files and folders are not visible in the web server directory index, so you can't view them through the browser. To...
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
Site Content Configurations
Site Content Configurations Liferay offers a range of tools and settings to help you configure and optimize your site's content: Setting up the asset recycle bin Configuring content rating...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM