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
Configuring Geolocation for Assets
Configuring Geolocation for Assets Geolocated assets include geographical data, allowing them to be displayed on maps or filtered based on location. You can use geolocation data to display a list...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Managing Content Sharing Across Sites
Managing Content Sharing Across Sites You can allow Liferay DXP child Sites to display content from parent Sites. This content includes Web Content Structures Web Content Templates Document...
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
Configuring the Asset Recycle Bin for Sites
Configuring the Asset Recycle Bin for Sites The recycle bin stores content and assets that have been flagged for deletion, before they are permanently removed from the system. This functionality...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Handling Friendly URL Conflicts in Site Templates
Handling Friendly URL Conflicts in Site Templates Currently, this feature is behind a beta feature flag (LPS-174417). Read Beta Feature Flags for more information. Liferay doesn't allow...
Published Date: Oct 30, 2024 3:13 PM
Configuring Site Template Propagation
Configuring Site Template Propagation Liferay 7.4 U23+/GA23+ By default, site template changes are propagated automatically to a connected site when a user visits the site after the template is...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Creating Site Templates
Creating Site Templates With site templates, you can design and configure templates for creating sites. Each template is built using the same tools as sites. Site templates are primarily intended...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
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,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Building Liferay Source
Building Liferay Source This section aims to provide instructions for building Liferay Portal from source as quickly as possible. Using a nightly snapshot bundle no longer requires a full build...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Organizing the Source
Organizing the Source It is important to have a solid understanding of how the Liferay source is organized when working on fixing a bug or adding a new feature to the product. The Liferay Source...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
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),...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
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
DXP
DXP :::: 2 :gutter: 3 3 3 3 ::: Definitions :link: ./dxp/definitions/index.html ::: ::: Javadocs :link: ./dxp/javadocs.md Portal Impl Portal Kernel Portal-Test Core Apps ::: ::: Utility Classes...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Contributing to Liferay Development
Contributing to Liferay Development The first thing to do in learning to fix bugs or contributing a feature is to become familiar with how to build the system. The Liferay Portal build system now...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Javadocs
Javadocs Portal-Impl Portal-Kernel Portal-Test Core Apps
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Legacy Documentation
Legacy Documentation Using Liferay DXP 7.2 Developing Liferay DXP 7.2 Using Liferay DXP 7.1 Developing Liferay DXP 7.1 Using Liferay DXP 7.0 Developing Liferay DXP 7.0 Using Liferay...
Published Date: Jan 11, 2025 5:03 PM
Portlet API
Portlet API Portlet API
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Core
Core :::: 2 :gutter: 3 3 3 3 ::: Core Modules Liferay Shielded Container API Service Tracker Collections ::: ::: Petra Concurrent Executor Function IO Lang Memory NIO Process Reflect SQL DSL...
Published Date: Jun 6, 2025 6:17 PM
Apps
Apps com.liferay.account.api com.liferay.adaptive.media.api com.liferay.adaptive.media.content.transformer.api com.liferay.adaptive.media.demo.data.creator.api ...
Published Date: Dec 7, 2024 12:16 AM
Reference
Reference Note: These pages contain the latest Liferay reference documentation. You can download reference documentation for older releases from Github here. :::: 2 :gutter: 3 3 3 3 ::: DXP...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Utility Classes
Utility Classes Util-Bridges Util-Java Util-slf4j Util-Taglib
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Liferay University
Liferay University This page serves as an archive and index of videos that were previously hosted on Liferay University. As of February 28, 2023 Liferay University is no longer operational....
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Definitions
Definitions Definitions
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Properties Documentation
Properties Documentation Portal Properties System Properties Liferay Plugin Package Properties 7.4 Liferay Plugin Package Properties 7.3 Liferay Plugin Package Properties 7.2 Liferay Plugin...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Liferay Style Guide
Liferay Style Guide The Liferay Style Guide sits on the shoulders of giants---specifically, the giants of The Chicago Manual of Style and Strunk and White's The Elements of Style. Where this guide...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Day 2 Exercises for Building Enterprise Websites with Liferay
Introduction page for day 2 Day 2 Exercises for Building Enterprise Websites with Liferay Exercise 11a: Generating Content with ChatGPT Exercise 11b: Auto-Tagging Content (Bonus) Exercise 12a:...
Published Date: Sep 23, 2024 4:11 PM
Liferay Style Conventions
Liferay Style Conventions Conventions are neither correct or incorrect; they are decisions that vary greatly in the industry. After much comparison and use, Liferay's documentation uses the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Liferay High-Level Style
Liferay High-Level Style There are five types of documentation: Introduction: Placed hierarchically at the top of a section, the introduction is a high level explainer that summarizes how the...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:52 AM
Training Material
Training Material These materials supplement some recorded and in-person trainings by providing you with opportunities to practice key skills, test your understanding, and gain confidence in...
Published Date: Sep 23, 2024 4:10 PM
Building Enterprise Websites with Liferay Exercises
Building Enterprise Websites with Liferay Exercises These exercises supplement the Building Enterprise Websites with Liferay video training and provide an opportunity to solidify your learning....
Published Date: Sep 23, 2024 4:10 PM
Liferay Documentation Format
Liferay Documentation Format The format, or how a style of documentation is organized, is important to maintaining consistency of experience. As readers make more use of the documentation, the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Liferay Phraseology
Liferay Phraseology Liferay's style phrases prose a certain way. Note that these are also conventions and neither correct nor incorrect; they are the way we have chosen to communicate based on our...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:52 AM
Day 3 Exercises for Building Enterprise Websites with Liferay
Introduction page for day 3 Day 3 Exercises for Building Enterprise Websites with Liferay Exercise 19a: Creating an Object Definition Exercise 19b: Building the Form Exercise 19c: Creating a...
Published Date: Sep 23, 2024 4:11 PM
Day 1 Exercises for Building Enterprise Websites with Liferay
Introduction page for day 1 Day 1 Exercises for Building Enterprise Websites with Liferay Exercise 1: Exploring Clarity's Public Enterprise Website Exercise 2: Verifying and Launching Liferay...
Published Date: Sep 23, 2024 4:10 PM
Upgrading Data Schemas
Upgrading Data Schemas When you upgrade Liferay, you might run into incompatibility issues with your custom modules' data schemas. There are three ways you can resolve these issues: You can run...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Using Upgrade Processes in Earlier Versions
Using Upgrade Processes in Earlier Versions Liferay DXP 7.4 U10/Portal 7.4 GA14 and Below Follow these steps to create an upgrade process for your module: Open your module's bnd.bnd file, and...
Published Date: Dec 3, 2024 3:10 PM
Understanding and Extending Generated Classes
Understanding and Extending Generated Classes Service Builder generates both tables for your entity and model, persistence, and service classes for it. Here you'll examine generated classes for an...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Invoking a Service Locally
Invoking a Service Locally Service Builder services that are deployed to DXP/Portal can be invoked from other classes in the same JVM. These services are local to the classes. Service Builder...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Multithreading Process
Multithreading Process Liferay DXP 7.4 U10+ or Liferay Portal 7.4 GA14+ Your Upgrade Processes may involve making complex changes to large data sets. If performance is critical, use the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Reference
Reference
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Using Bean Portlet
Using Bean Portlet Portlet 3.0, the JSR 362 standard, features a style of portlet development called Bean Portlets that use Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI). Bean Portlets fully leverage all...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Reference
Reference
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Liferay Faces Alloy
Liferay Faces Alloy Liferay Faces Alloy is distributed in a .jar file. You can add Liferay Faces Alloy as a dependency to your portlet projects, to use AlloyUI in a way that is consistent with JSF...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Using Upgrade Processes
Using Upgrade Processes Liferay DXP 7.4 U10+/Portal 7.4 GA14+ An upgrade of your application may require making changes to your database tables. Liferay's upgrade framework makes it easy to make...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Developing a Web Application
Developing a Web Application
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
CDI Portlet Predefined Beans
CDI Portlet Predefined Beans Liferay DXP provides injectable portlet artifacts for CDI called Portlet Predefined Beans, as specified by JSR 362. There are two types of predefined beans: Portlet...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Using JSF
Using JSF Liferay Faces is an umbrella project that provides support for the JavaServer[™] Faces (JSF) standard in Liferay DXP/Portal. Here are the Liferay Faces topics: Introduction to Liferay...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Liferay Faces Bridge
Liferay Faces Bridge Liferay Faces Bridge enables you to deploy JSF web apps as portlets without writing portlet-specific code. It also contains innovative features that make it possible to...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Liferay Faces Portal
Liferay Faces Portal Liferay Faces Portal is distributed in a .jar file. You can add Liferay Faces Portal as a dependency for your portlet projects to use its Liferay-specific utilities and UI...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Using MVC
Using MVC If you're an experienced developer, this is not the first time you've heard about Model View Controller. If there are so many implementations of MVC frameworks in Java, why did Liferay...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
MVC Action Command
MVC Action Command MVC Action Commands handle actions as separate classes. With Action Commands, you can organize action logic in MVCPortlets that have many actions. Action URLs in the portlet's...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
MVC Render Command
MVC Render Command MVC Render Commands are classes that handle which page to render. They are invoked by MVCPortlet render URLs and requests. If your render logic is simple you can implement all of...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
MVC Resource Command
MVC Resource Command MVC Resource Command classes retrieve resources: images, XML, or any other kind of resource from a DXP/Portal instance without triggering any actions or renders. Requests or...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Invoking Actions with MVC Portlet
Invoking Actions with MVC Portlet A portlet's Action phase applies state changes. You can bind your portlet's action-handling methods to UI components using portlet action URLs. They are...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Liferay Faces Version Scheme
Liferay Faces Version Scheme In this article, you'll learn which Liferay Faces artifacts should be used with your portlet and explore the Liferay Faces versioning scheme by discovering what each...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Portlet Preferences
Portlet Preferences You can give administrators and users a way to customize a portlet with portlet preferences. Portlet preferences can be added to any MVC Portlet to give users a UI to access and...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Alloy UI (AUI) Tag Library
Alloy UI (AUI) Tag Library The AUI tag library provides tags that implement commonly used UI components. These tags make your markup consistent, responsive, and accessible. You can find a list of...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM
Building Forms with AUI Tags
Building Forms with AUI Tags The AUI tag library provides all the components you need to build forms for your applications. AUI tags provide many benefits to standard form elements, such as custom...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:53 PM