Getting Started with Liferay CMS

Liferay CMS 2026.Q4+

With Liferay CMS installed and activated, you can prepare it for your team. Sign in with the administrator account, create your first space, and add team members to it.

Signing In

1. Open your instance’s URL in a browser.

   The Sign In page is also available at /sign-in.

   

2. Enter your credentials in the sign-in form:

   • Email Address: Enter your email address.
   • Password: Enter your password.

3. Click Sign In.

   Signing in for the first time prompts you to create your first space.

Creating Your First Space

Spaces are where your teams create and manage their content and files.

1. Select a color for the space logo.

2. Enter a space name and, optionally, a description.

3. Click Continue.

4. Click Continue again to skip adding space members. You can add them after you add users.

Note

In Liferay CMS, spaces don’t connect to sites. A space’s overview page has no Sites section, and the All Spaces list and the space breadcrumb menu have no View Connected Sites action.

Adding Users

To work in Liferay CMS, people must have a user profile. This profile stores their personal details, roles, and memberships. You can add users in several ways:

• Add users manually in the Control Panel. See Adding and Managing Users for instructions.
• Create users automatically the first time they sign in through your identity provider, over SAML or OpenID Connect.
• Import users in bulk through the REST API. See Adding Users in Bulk for instructions.

Once you’ve added users to your instance, you can invite them to your space as members. See Adding Members to a Space.

Next Steps

Liferay CMS shares its documentation with the CMS in Liferay DXP. To continue, see these articles in the Liferay DXP documentation:

• Creating Content Structures, to define the fields your content needs
• Creating Assets and Folders, to add content and files to your space
• Delivering CMS Content to External Applications, to serve your content through APIs

To see which applications and settings Liferay CMS includes, read Applications and Settings in Liferay CMS.