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
Using Information Templates
Using Information Templates Available 7.4+ With Information Templates, you can create FreeMarker templates for any item type that implements the Info Framework. Supported item types include web...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Configuring Asset Publisher Subscriptions
Configuring Asset Publisher Subscriptions The Asset Publisher supports two kinds of subscriptions: email subscriptions and RSS feed subscriptions. Email Subscriptions Users can subscribe to the...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Optimizing Sites
Optimizing Sites From having top-tier SEO, to understanding and acting on your site's content, to building a site that is accessible to all types of users, Liferay provides tools for identifying...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Reviewing A/B Test Results and Publishing Test Variants
Reviewing A/B Test Results and Publishing Test Variants When the A/B Test finishes, you can find the test results in Analytics Cloud and Liferay DXP. Analytics Cloud declares a winner when the...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Configuring the Asset Publisher Display Settings
Configuring the Asset Publisher Display Settings When using an Asset Publisher widget, you can configure several display settings to specify how users view your content. Create a new page or...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Running and Monitoring A/B Tests
Running and Monitoring A/B Tests You can configure these parameters when you run the A/B Test: Traffic Split: The percentage of visitors randomly split between the original and the variant when...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Liferay DXP 7.2 SP1+ With A/B Testing, you can determine the most effective version of your content by testing variations on different users. The majority of visitors see the current...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Displaying Assets Using the Asset Publisher Widget
Displaying Assets Using the Asset Publisher Widget As you create web content, remember that pieces of content are assets like message board entries and blog posts. The most common type of asset is...
Published Date: Jan 18, 2025 2:50 AM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Getting Started with Site Building
Getting Started with Site Building Sites are a fundamental component of Liferay DXP. A site is a collection of pages with content and applications that provide functionality. When you start your...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Creating A/B Tests
Creating A/B Tests Before creating A/B tests, remember these things: You can create a test for a default Experience or a personalized Experience mapped to a Segment. You can only create an A/B...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Verifying A/B Test Requirements
Verifying A/B Test Requirements Before running A/B Testing on your Content pages, you must verify these requirements are met: Liferay DXP is connected to Analytics Cloud. Fore information on how...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Building a Responsive Site
Building a Responsive Site More than half of all page views in the world come from mobile devices like phones and tablets. Any site should look as good when viewed by a mobile device as it does on...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Personal Sites
Personal Sites By default, Liferay generates a personal site for every user. Each site includes two page sets: My Profile (public) and My Dashboard (private). Each user is the sole member of their...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:58 PM
Publishing Tools
Publishing Tools Liferay provides two publishing tools for content creation and site building: Publications and Staging. With each tool you can edit sites and content in a working environment...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
Comparing Publishing Tools
Comparing Publishing Tools Liferay provides two publishing tools for content creation and site building: Publications and Staging. Publications is recommended over Staging in nearly all use cases...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:57 PM
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
SEO and Metadata Configuration Reference
SEO and Metadata Configuration Reference Optimizing SEO and metadata is essential for improving site visibility in search engines and ensuring content is properly indexed and displayed across...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:52 PM
Creating Mobile Device Rules
Creating Mobile Device Rules Available in Liferay 7.2 and prior as it is deprecated in 7.3 As a prerequisite, you must install the Liferay Mobile Device Detection Lite (LMDD) app from Liferay...
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
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
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
Best Practices for Managing Publications
Best Practices for Managing Publications Efficient publication workflows in Liferay help improve collaboration, reduce errors, and streamline content delivery. Follow these best practices to...
Published Date: Mar 25, 2025 3:57 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Syntax Validation
Syntax Validation The Poshi Standalone grade projects includes a validation task that can be used to check your code for syntax errors before running your test. To use this, simply run ./gradlew...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Setup
Setup Prerequisites A supported version of Java. Google Chrome. Gradle or Gradle Wrapper 6.6.1 or higher. Setting up the Poshi Standalone Gradle Project Create a new directory, example...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Poshi Basics
Poshi Basics New features, improvements, and system upgrades can sometimes introduce unexpected behaviors and bugs. Running suites of automated tests is an advantageous method of identifying issues...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Poshi Advantages
Poshi Advantages Simplified Syntax To make it easier for less technical testers to read and write test automation, Poshi uses a simplified Groovy-like script syntax. It is less wordy than most...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Macros
Macros A macro is a set of functions that perform a task. Macros are where locators (paths) and functions are brought together to script interactions that a user performs on the system being...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Functions
Functions In Poshi, Functions handle extra WebDriver commands that an element might require to interact with a page object or element. Functions combine the basic methods defined in the...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Understanding Test Results and Debugging Tests
Understanding Test Results and Debugging Tests Poshi tests are run on the terminal or command line. When a test run is completed there are multiple ways to view the test results and diagnose test...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Poshi Layers
Poshi Layers
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Testcases
Testcases A testcase file in Poshi is a collection of test scenarios grouped in blocks of code called test blocks. The three main test blocks: setUp, test, and tearDown, are made up of multiple...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Paths
Paths A path is an element on a page that a test will interact with. An element can be a button, text field, link, image, paragraph, or just about anything you would need to assert, click, or type...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Using Variables
Using Variables Though not a Poshi layer, variables are a large part of Poshi tests. Variables, like in other programming languages, are used to store data which can be referenced and reused in...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Configuration
Configuration In order to give test writers easy access to commonly used functions, paths, or macros, Poshi resources were created to store existing Poshi files as dependencies. These resources can...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Using Poshi Resources
Using Poshi Resources Once the Poshi resources jar file is loaded onto your Poshi project, you are now able to use Liferay's commonly used functions, paths, and macros. To distinguish between files...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Reference
Reference Node Version Information
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Node Version Information
Node Version Information Liferay DXP uses Node (and NPM) for many different frontend components. Specifically, the Liferay Theme Generator and Liferay's JavaScript application tools require the use...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Poshi Resources
Poshi Resources To give Poshi test writers easy access to commonly used functions or other files, Poshi resources were created to store existing Poshi files as dependencies that can be loaded apart...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Traditional Java-Based Development
Traditional Java-Based Development Liferay is a complex open-source platform built on several key technologies and architectural principles. Liferay is written mostly in Java and built on the OSGi...
Published Date: Jul 18, 2024 8:39 PM
Using the Bootstrap 3 Compatibility Layer in Liferay 7.4
Using the Bootstrap 3 Compatibility Layer in Liferay 7.4 As of Liferay DXP 7.4 GA1, the Bootstrap 3 compatibility layer is removed from the built-in packages in Liferay frontend applications. If...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
Core Frameworks
Core Frameworks
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM
Categorizing a Configuration
Categorizing a Configuration When you register a configuration interface, the UI for your application is generated in System Settings → Platform → Third Party. If you prefer a different section and...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:50 PM