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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Definitions
Definitions Definitions
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
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
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
Javadocs
Javadocs Portal-Impl Portal-Kernel Portal-Test Core Apps
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
Portlet API
Portlet API Portlet API
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
Utility Classes
Utility Classes Util-Bridges Util-Java Util-slf4j Util-Taglib
Published Date: May 9, 2024 7:01 PM
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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